316. Life After Loss: Grief Plateaus and Dirty Light Fixtures
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.6 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
While cleaning light fixtures in my home, I discovered layers of built-up dirt that had dimmed what were actually crystal-clear glass fixtures. For years, I had accepted the clouded appearance as normal, never questioning if something better lay beneath. This simple household revelation sparked a powerful metaphor for how we often settle into life after loss.
I understand firsthand how we can unknowingly plateau in our grief journey. We reach a point where we're functioning and surviving, but not truly thriving.
If you feel like you’re in a grief plateau - that space after the sharp edge of loss has dulled, but life still feels flat and uninspired - this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 316, life after loss, grief plateaus, and dirty light fixtures. |
| 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 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. Before we jump in, I want to make sure you know |
| 0:38.5 | about a brand new free workshop that I am teaching on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, on how to help |
| 0:45.0 | your children grieve, even if they're grown. It will be 60 minutes long. I will walk you through |
| 0:50.4 | how to be the steady presence your kids need without ignoring your own feelings in the |
| 0:54.8 | process. And you will learn the three most common mistakes that widowed moms make even when they have |
| 0:58.9 | the best intentions. Because we all do and how you can avoid making those mistakes. And I will teach you a |
| 1:04.4 | very simple 60 second tool that will help you feel more confident and less overwhelmed. And we will cover |
| 1:10.5 | what your kids actually need to feel |
| 1:12.3 | safe, even if they don't want to talk to you about their grief. So if you can't make it live, |
| 1:16.6 | we will send out a replay, but you do need to be on my email list to get it. So just go to |
| 1:21.6 | coaching with Krista.com. And you can click on the grief assessment and take that or you can just |
| 1:26.4 | wait for a pop up. And eventually you will find a spot to assessment and take that, or you can just wait for a pop-up. |
| 1:35.5 | And eventually, you will find a spot to enter your email address, put that in there, and we will send you all of the information on that free workshop. |
| 1:40.3 | So again, it is June 17th, 2025, how to help your children grieve, even if they're grown. |
| 1:42.7 | It's something I haven't ever done a workshop on. |
| 1:44.6 | I don't know why I haven't done a workshop on that, |
| 1:50.6 | but I think it's time. So I hope to see you there. And if this is your first episode, welcome. |
| 1:55.7 | I haven't really welcomed new listeners in a while. So welcome. I'm glad you're here. Just kind of a quick summary recap, which will help this episode make a little more sense to you. My husband Hugo died in |
| 2:02.5 | 2016, and I pretty quickly discovered that what I thought I knew about grief was not helpful. |
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