296. Rebuilding Confidence After Loss: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Danielle Fitzpatrick

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

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt stuck in your grief, unsure of how to move forward after losing your husband? I talk with Danielle Fitzpatrick about her journey through grief after losing her husband to pancreatic cancer when she was only 36 years old.

Danielle shares openly about the challenges she faced as a young widow and mother, from the numbness and insecurity she felt in the early days of grief to the difficulty of making decisions without her husband.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/296

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 296, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Danielle Fitzpatrick.
0:11.0	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.
0:24.7	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. First question for you. Are you getting emails from me? Are you on my email list? If not, I think you want to be because I sent out some, if I do say so myself, really good stuff. So go to coaching with Krista.com. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and you will see a free course on navigating grief and you can
0:55.8	just click send me the course put in your information and you will get a free course from me on
1:01.1	some of my best information about how to navigate grief as well as regular emails from me in which
1:07.8	I tell stories and give tips and we can connect. So go and do that if you haven't
1:13.0	already. And of course, sometimes I forget to say this, follow this podcast. It helps greatly
1:19.5	when you hit that follow button, whether you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever
1:24.2	you're listening. If you follow or subscribe, that makes sure that you
1:27.5	never miss an episode. And that also tells the algorithms that, you know, this podcast helps people.
1:33.2	So please do both of those things. Thank you so much for doing that. And then also this podcast
1:40.1	interview, y'all, I have known Danielle for quite a while, and it was really rewarding for me
1:48.5	to look at the glow on her face as we recorded the podcast. If you want to go and see what I'm
1:55.7	talking about, you can go to YouTube because we'll post a video of the podcast there.
2:00.3	But wow, what a difference between the
2:03.8	Danielle I started working with and the Danielle of today. And in that podcast episode, I know it's
2:10.3	going to help because she gives some really good advice on how to navigate early grief,
2:15.2	what she would have told herself back in the days when
2:18.3	her husband was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she was doing all of the caretaking.
2:23.3	She talks about her journey to increasing herself confidence and how she did that and gives
2:28.6	some really actionable advice that I know you can use.
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