314. 5 Signs You’re Ready to Love Life after Loss

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

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Living a full and meaningful life after loss isn't about waiting until you feel completely ready - it's about recognizing the subtle signs that you're prepared to take those first steps forward.

Many widowed moms find themselves in what I call a "grief plateau." If this is you, it's time to move beyond merely surviving to truly thriving. In this episode, I explore the five key signs that suggest you're more ready than you think to love life again, even if uncertainty and sadness still linger.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/314

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 314, 5 Signs, You're Ready to Love Life After Loss.
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 to.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:33.0	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. A little update on my life. Before we jump into
0:39.0	today's topic, I am in full house prep mode, quite a few more things to be done before the house
0:44.6	is photo ready. And so I'm working on that, still feeling lots of feelings about it. But I am doing
0:50.9	a good job of supporting myself. And I am really craving less of a financial weight,
0:54.9	less of an emotional weight, less weight. And this house feels like a weight to me as much as I love
1:00.6	so much of it. So that's going on. And then I'm also working very hard on my healing. And it's so
1:07.5	interesting to me how it looks so different this time now that I'm in a really
1:11.2	different place with this breakup compared to where I was when Hugo died. When Hugo died,
1:16.4	I went right back to my old therapist. I did a lot of journaling. And I tried to read,
1:22.4	which was kind of hit or miss, depending on how intense the widow fog was. And that's really all I had. That was it.
1:29.9	Now I have so many more resources. I definitely already understand the value of coaching.
1:35.6	Most of my friends are coaches. And I'm also so much more willing to invest in my healing than I
1:41.2	ever was before. Most of the options I know that now exist, I didn't know
1:46.2	they existed then, or maybe I just wasn't open to them, but they just weren't something I would
1:50.6	consider as options. It wasn't until quite a bit later that I actually discovered coaching.
1:54.7	So I'm still journaling and I'm still reading and I'm still listening to podcasts, but I have
2:00.6	assembled a team of practitioners with
2:03.2	their own specialties, someone who specializes in betrayal trauma, my tapping coach, Melanie
2:09.4	Faye, who has been on the podcast a couple of times, who I bring into mom goes on twice a month
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