Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 315, when gratitude is a grief blocker.

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.

Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. This week has been super emotional for me.

Y'all, I am still doing all kinds of work to sell the house, get it ready to be listed.

I had my youngest who just got back into town take down all the decorations off of their wall,

which doesn't sound like a very big deal, but they had created a can wall, which was an entire

wall of aluminum cans, like drink cans, in color order, and it took them several years to do,

and it was a really big deal. And also, they just express a lot of their personality through all

the things that were on their rooms, they had all these collages and big things on the wall.

And taking them down was just kind of a bummer. Kind of a bummer. So that happened. My daughter is in

Colorado still for this semester. She'll be there probably through mid-July. Then it looks like she's

going to be going back to Europe this time for a job, which is super exciting. But that means she's not here,

so I have been trying to make her room look like a hotel to the best of my ability, as per the

realtor. And also outside, if you know me, you know that I'm super into potted plants. I have a

ridiculous amount of potted plants. And so I've been trying to call the herd because I realized that the next owner might not want that many potted plants.

It's a little bit ridiculous.

So getting rid of all of the extra dirt that is in those pots and moving those pots and figuring out to do with the pots and all the little things that take a lot of time to do, right? And then getting rid of furniture, the realtor's telling me which pieces of furniture, you know, I need to get rid of and light bulb shopping to brighten up dark spaces,

all the things. And with all of that, there has been a lot of emotion, of course. So I've been

feeling a lot this week, tapping a lot this week, as I normally do. I'm a big tapper anyway,

but I've really been trying

to take extra care of myself and use my tools to help myself process what is there to be processed.

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