282. The Pressure to Be Productive

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

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

From the Industrial Revolution to the modern-day superwoman ideal, women in grief especially have internalized the belief that our worth is tied to our output, but at what cost?

Learn how the pressure to be productive can be harmful during grief. You'll also explore questions to help you examine your current relationship with productivity, allowing you to redefine success and give yourself permission to rest and feel.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/282

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 282, the pressure to be productive.
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.
0:41.2	How you doing? What's going on in your world?
0:48.5	We've made it to late October already. Fall is in full effect, which I love. It's my favorite.
0:56.9	I'm also loving watching my youngest, who's 17, so not so young anymore, but I'm having a lot of fun this fall watching him in theater. He doesn't really want to be on the front stage. He likes to be on the
1:02.5	backstage, but he's in charge of the lighting crew for the upcoming little shop of horrors
1:07.8	production, and he's been doing a lot of set work and just having fun in
1:11.0	his element and with his friends and doing things that are challenging to him but also really
1:16.6	enjoyable to him. It's been fun to watch. And because the holidays are coming like a freight train,
1:25.1	I want to make sure you know about the happier holidays event that we've
1:30.0	got planned again this year for you. Holidays can be such a mixed time, right? Especially when
1:37.2	you're a widow. There's things you look forward to. There's things you dread. It can feel overwhelming.
1:43.7	And so I want to again support you with the
1:46.6	happier holidays event. So you can go to Coaching with Krista.com forward slash free holiday event
1:52.8	and register for it. And if you've done it in the past, I've done it for a few years now.
1:58.8	And every other time I have had a free portion and then an
2:03.3	upgraded VIP portion. And I decided not to do the upgraded VIP portion. I'm just going to give
2:08.4	everybody everything this year. Feels better to me. I don't really want to mess with small
2:15.6	charges. I really just don't. I just want you to come and get help. I want the holidays
2:21.8	to be easier for you. They can be with the right tools. They can be. And so this event is going to be
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