Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 317, the pressure to be productive in grief.

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. Today we're going to talk about something I see

all the time in grief coaching, and that's the pressure to be productive. So here's what we're

going to cover in this episode. First, we'll look at where this pressure comes from, why so many

of us feel it, especially after the loss. And then I'll help you identify how this narrative

might be showing up in your life, even if you don't realize it. And finally, we'll talk about how

this pressure affects your grief and what you can do instead. So if you've been judging yourself

for not doing enough or feeling like you have to earn your way

through grief by getting things done, this episode is for you. A little update on my life.

Before we jump in, house prep mania continues. Pictures are scheduled for this Friday. I have cleaned

all of the windows that I can reach from the inside, which is actually a lot of windows.

They mostly open up from the inside and I can reach them on the outside. But there are some that I

can't reach, so those will be cleaned later this week. I have been still power washing. Power washing,

power washing, power washing. The driveway, I learned, once you start power washing your driveway,

you really are fully committed.

I kind of accidentally power washed part of the driveway after finishing power washing the brick on the front porch because it really needed it.

And then I did a spot on the driveway by accident.

And it looked so different than I had to do the whole rest of the driveway.

It actually looked like that concrete there had been replaced, which is wild. So power washing is fun and also, once you get in there,

you're kind of committed. We also have a little drainage thing in the back where water that

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