294. Grief Is a Feature, Not a Bug

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

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What if, instead of being in the way of fully living life, grief is actually the way to fully living? I invite you to consider a powerful reframe: grief as a feature, not a bug.

By listening to our grief, we open ourselves up to the possibility of post-traumatic growth - making changes that lead us toward a more aligned life, not in spite of what happened, but because of what we do after it happens.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/294

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 294.
0:06.4	Grief is a feature, not a book.
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
0:23.1	look forward to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom,
0:30.7	Krista St. Germain. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Before we dive in, I want to remind you about two programs that could make meaningful
0:41.8	change in your life right now.
0:43.5	If you are in early, intense, acute grief and wondering how to make that experience more
0:50.1	manageable, not easy, but easier, then my grief essentials program is for you. We are about to
0:56.7	get started. It's an eight-week program. It's designed to give you the tools that you need to
1:02.3	navigate the wild emotional roller coaster of grief. And the next round starts January 21st,
1:08.4	early bird pricing ends January 14th. You can find all the details at
1:13.3	coaching with Krista.com forward slash grief essentials. And if you're a little further along
1:19.5	and you're ready to bust out of the grief plateau and get back to truly loving life again,
1:25.0	which is where I definitely found myself, that's what my mom
1:28.6	goes on program is for. And we are now enrolling for our February cohort. So that's where we do the
1:34.9	deep work to help you truly believe that you can love life again and give you the tools that you need
1:42.5	to make that happen. So you can go to coaching with Krista.com, click on the Work With Me tab, and that's where you'll learn about that
1:48.4	program. All right, let's get into today's topic. You've probably heard me say this before, but I think
1:54.8	it bears repeating. Grief is not a problem to solve. It's not something broken that is in need of fixing. And yet, so often,
2:06.2	that's how we treat it. We treat grief like it's a problem to solve. We treat ourselves like we're
2:11.6	problems to solve when we're grieving. When we see it in others, we tend to have a similar approach.
2:18.6	But I've been thinking about this idea, and I want to offer it to you today,
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