279. Widowhood as a Doorway

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever considered that widowhood could be a doorway to a more intentional life? It's not about loving that our person died, but about using this experience as an opportunity for growth and change, only if you want it.

Hear how the loss of your person can bring up both new and long-standing struggles, and how widowhood can serve as an invitation to rewire our brains and change patterns that no longer serve us.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/279

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 279, widowhood as a doorway.
0:10.8	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to.
0:24.7	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:33.3	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Okay, this one's going to be kind of short.
0:39.6	And before we start, let me tell you that I did not have the heart to send my dog out of the room.
0:45.7	She is sleeping. You might hear her snoring. Hopefully she doesn't bark. But she hurt her paw.
0:51.5	And my little dog mom heart does not want to make her get up. So I don't
0:56.4	usually record a podcast with her in the room. But we're just going to see how this goes. But it's a
1:00.2	pretty short episode anyway. So the reason I want to talk to you about this today or what
1:06.3	inspired me to bring this to your attention is a conversation that I actually had today
1:12.9	inside of Mom Goes On with the new members for this month. And we were talking about how some of what
1:21.2	they're noticing is struggles that have come from grief that weren't there before they lost their person. But then some of what they're noticing is struggles that have come from grief that weren't there before they lost their person.
1:30.1	But then some of what they're noticing are struggles that they've had for a long time
1:35.6	that are now coming to the surface. And maybe they're coming to the surface because in large
1:40.8	part, their person isn't there anymore to help them, right? If you're used to having your
1:47.0	person be a cheerleader for you, if you're used to having a pretty loud inner critic that says
1:52.5	mean things to you that you believe, but then your person was the one who said, oh, that's nonsense.
1:58.3	That's okay, right? You're fine. I love you. You're great. You're amazing.
2:02.0	Right. And they kind of talked you down from a mean inner critic ledge that you were on.
2:07.9	Then not having them can be a real void. And what we're left with is some pretty mean stuff,
2:16.8	potentially, or at least limiting, if not mean, that's been in our
2:21.3	brain for a long, long time, sometimes decades, right? Sometimes we don't even remember life
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