298 SelfWork: Trauma, Grief, and Post-Traumatic Growth: A Conversation with Widow Krista St-Germain
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On SelfWork, I love to feature people who have used their own experience – and sometimes that experiences involves loss or grief – to live through something that has taught them important lessons. And they want to share that you.
Krista St-Germain is that kind of person. I’ll let her tell her story but I think you’ll be surprised at some of how she handled her response. She studied to become a life coach in order to try to learn what she needed to do to work through her grief and began a podcast so that, she, like me, could reach more people who were also widows and moms. She focuses on post-traumatic growth – and she stresses that PTG doesn’t involved romanticizing trauma – somehow trying to convince yourself or others that your trauma is something that you’re supposed to be glad happened. Not at all. But what you do with it is important.
Some of her major points:
- The myth about the grief stages
- How to avoid the social expectations surrounding grief
- Her truth about trauma, moving forward, and post-traumatic growth
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Selfwork, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:14.1 | At Selfwork, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret, and Selfwork is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today |
| 0:26.2 | for your own Selfwork. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, and welcome, or welcome back to Selfwork. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm a clinical psychologist, and I started Selfwork almost six years ago now. |
| 0:38.7 | In fact, this is episode 298. |
| 0:41.2 | I can't believe that. |
| 0:43.4 | I started it to extend the walls of my practice to everyone who's interested in psychological |
| 0:49.2 | issues, but also to those of you who might be looking for answers or really don't know |
| 0:54.3 | much. |
| 0:55.3 | Maybe you're even a little skeptical about therapy. |
| 0:58.0 | I wanted to try to help you learn so that maybe you would seek the help that you need, |
| 1:03.6 | that we all need. |
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| 1:21.2 | One of the best things you can do to improve your health is get at least seven hours of |
| 1:24.7 | quality sleep every night. |
| 1:26.6 | I know it's hard to get that much sleep. |
| 1:29.0 | Your mind keeps you awake, your partner snores, you can't get comfortable, you wake up early |
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