312. The Shock of Widowhood: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Janet Lea

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

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and unfiltered conversation, I sit down with my client Janet Lea who shares her experience of grief after losing her wife of 43 years. Janet's perspective is fresh—she's approaching the one-year mark since Mary Lou's passing—and her insights are both heartbreaking and illuminating.

Join us this week as Janet lets us in on the realities of grief—from the unexpected ways it manifests physically to the well-intentioned but unhelpful things people say. Whether you're newly widowed or supporting someone who is, Janet's story offers valuable insights about navigating loss, asking for help, and finding your way forward without a roadmap.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/312

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 312, Widows Unfiltered, an interview with Janet Lee.
0:10.2	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.
0:31.4	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I've got another interview for you today with my client, Janet.
0:40.5	And I think it's so valuable, even if you don't relate to the circumstances of a widow's life, right?
0:47.7	Even if your loss feels very different than theirs, please listen with the idea that there is something in there for you. There is something there to learn.
0:56.1	There is always something there to learn. Janet is coming up on not quite the one year mark,
1:02.0	and so her perspective is just a little bit more fresh, and I want you to listen for things that
1:06.1	helped her, things that didn't, and see what there is for you to learn. She's also whip smart
1:10.8	and super funny.
1:12.2	And I really wish I could have met her wife, Mary Lou, because as she describes her, she sounds like a
1:16.4	riot to me. She sounds like somebody I would have really liked, which is probably why I like
1:20.2	Janet so much. But anyway, I will let you listen and enjoy my interview with Janet.
1:26.1	Okay, welcome Janet to the podcast. I'm glad you're here.
1:29.3	Thank you. Thanks for asking me. Listeners don't know this, but right before I pressed record,
1:33.8	you were starting to say all this stuff and I was like, no, no, wait, I got to hit record so we can
1:38.7	catch all of this. Okay, so we'll back up a little bit and I will let you just introduce yourself,
1:44.1	tell listeners how you got to Mom goes on, how you got to the Wooded Mom podcast. Give us your backstory.
1:50.0	My name is Janet Lee. I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and I don't want to be a member of this club. But my wife died. It's almost a year now, she died in June of 2024.
2:02.9	We'd been together for 43 years.
2:05.3	She had been sick for a long time.
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