280. Finding Joy Again: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Jenny Douglas

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

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jenny Douglas is an amazing widow who has been through the trenches of grief and come out the other side. We discuss how Jenny rebuilt her life and rediscovered joy, even in the midst of sadness, and why investing in yourself is one of the best things you can do for your well-being.

Jenny shares her powerful story of love, loss, and finding herself again after her husband John passed away.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/280

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 280, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Jenny Douglas.
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
0:23.7	to. 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. You get to meet the amazing Jenny Douglas today.
0:40.9	And I know you're going to like her story. It's going to resonate with you. I've coached with Jenny for a long time. She's an amazing human. You're just going to love her. So I will not bewilder. The intro, we'll just jump right into it. So I hope you enjoy my interview with
0:54.9	Jenny Douglas. All right. Welcome Jenny Douglas to the podcast. I'm glad to have a conversation with you.
1:01.3	It feels long overdue. I know. Hello. Hello. I miss you. Oh, same. Same. So instead of me introducing
1:09.3	you and doing a terrible job, let me let you introduce yourself. Tell listeners a little bit about Jenny.
1:16.5	I am Jenny and I live now in San Diego, born and raised in Redondo Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles, California.
1:24.4	Youngest of four kids raised in a very structured Catholic household went to very
1:31.0	structured schools. My whole life was a dental hygienist, married for one lovely year out of
1:36.9	college, which was a disaster, and was able to get out of that and met John celebrating. My friends took me out for my two-year wedding anniversary and what would have been my two-year wedding anniversary.
1:49.8	And I met John that night.
1:51.6	And that was June 8th.
1:52.7	And as we go through today, you'll see why June 8th was like such a big deal.
1:56.9	So I had gotten married on June 8th two years before.
2:00.4	I met John on June 8th and John passed on June 8th 34 years later.
2:04.9	So kind of a weird date for me.
2:07.5	We had a long distance relationship, just L.A. to San Diego for three years.
2:13.3	He was truly my best friend.
2:14.9	He was, if I had never had that marriage, I never would have dated a guy like John.
2:21.7	He was very different than me.
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