309. Staying Busy to Avoid Grief
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.6 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Are you filling every hour of your day since your partner died?
Maybe well-meaning friends have advised you to “just stay busy” or “give it time” as if these are magical solutions to grief. While staying busy can provide temporary relief, it might actually be keeping you stuck in your grief journey without you even realizing it.
Staying busy can feel like a way to maintain control when everything else feels unpredictable. But there’s a crucial difference between healthy distraction and avoidance. Today, I’m exploring when busyness supports us and when it’s a form of avoidance that takes us further from the life we want to build next.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 309, staying busy to avoid grief. |
| 0:10.3 | 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 |
| 0:23.2 | to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista |
| 0:30.5 | St. Germain. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. If you have ever found yourself filling every |
| 0:38.9 | hour of the day since your partner died, if people have told you, as they did me, to just stay |
| 0:45.3 | busy or give it time, then this episode is for you. Because while staying busy can be |
| 0:52.6 | helpful, it can also quietly keep us stuck. |
| 0:56.6 | So let's talk about when busyness supports us and when it's a form of avoidance that takes |
| 1:01.7 | us further away from the life we want next. |
| 1:04.9 | Before we get into it, a little update on my world. |
| 1:08.2 | First of all, coaching on the couch was amazing, as I knew it would be, |
| 1:13.0 | because it has been every single time, but it was extra amazing this time, I think partly |
| 1:17.1 | because I've been going through so much to welcome a group of women into my home. A couple |
| 1:21.7 | who have already been in my home before and who I've already met in real life and spent time |
| 1:26.4 | with, but mostly new women who had never been to my house before and who I had already met in real life and spent time with, but mostly new women who |
| 1:28.0 | had never been to my house before and who I had never gotten to hug in real life. Man, it was cool. |
| 1:33.8 | And what made it extra cool, and cool is maybe not the right word here, but extra nourishing is |
| 1:40.0 | probably a better word, was that I gave myself the gift of being honest with you all. And I know I |
| 1:47.0 | have shared this in the last couple of episodes of the podcast, but it has been rough, y'all, |
| 1:51.8 | rough. And I'm so glad I did not try to go through that alone. And I'm so glad that I was |
| 1:56.7 | honest with these women who were coming into my house about what's been going on for me, so that |
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