291. Why the Holidays Hurt & How to Create the Experience You Want

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

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Why does the holiday season feel so challenging after loss, and what can you do to have an easier, more present experience at this time of year, even if you’re navigating grief?

Learn the three ways you might be making the holidays harder than they need to be, and my top tips for creating the experience you want to have.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/291

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Angela, Krista's podcast producer. We selected an episode to re-air this week that might support you during this holiday season. We decided on one from a couple of years ago that explores why the holidays can feel even harder in your grief journey and how to compassionately care for yourself through it. Krista reminds us that it's normal for grief to resurface, even years later,
0:24.4	and that we can hold space for our feelings without judging ourselves.
0:28.9	Happy holidays, and please enjoy.
0:33.0	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.
0:46.9	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:55.5	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I want to talk about how we make the
1:00.4	holidays harder in grief today. And I also want to recommend that if you haven't listened to it
1:06.2	ever or lately, that you go back and check out episode 24, happier holidays after loss, because it is also
1:13.1	very helpful to listen to around this time of year. And we'll link to it in the show notes.
1:17.8	And then also, if you don't know, if you go to Coaching withcresta.com forward slash podcast, we have a
1:23.8	search feature built into the website. So if you're ever looking for a podcast episode,
1:27.7	now that there are a lot of them and you're struggling to find it, go there and use that
1:33.7	search feature. And you can search by keywords, and that will help you pull up podcast episodes
1:37.8	that you're looking for. I don't know if I've ever mentioned that before. So I wanted to make
1:40.9	sure you know that is available to you. So in today's episode, though,
1:45.0	what I want to talk about are three ways that we make the holidays harder on ourselves
1:49.7	than they have to be. So let's talk about the ways that we make the holidays harder on ourselves.
1:57.9	So much harder on ourselves than they have to be. One thing we do is that we tend to
2:03.3	tell ourselves a story about how the holidays should be, which then doesn't allow space for us to
2:13.2	experience the holidays as they actually are. And what this might look like in your brain,
2:19.8	it'll usually have the word should in it, right? It might look like they should be better.
2:25.0	The holidays should be better than they are. They should be happier. They should be more joyful.
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