Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 318, How Black and White Thinking can hijack

life after loss.

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 talking about black and white thinking, something that might be showing up in your grief experience without you even realizing it. And we're going to cover what it actually is, where it might come from, how it could influence the way that you think about grief and healing and even your identity,

and why shifting to a more flexible kind of thinking, what I call and thinking, can be so powerful.

And this is not about getting it perfect or fixing your thoughts. There's no such thing. It's about noticing patterns that might be adding unnecessary suffering and giving yourself permission to see things

in a new way. Before we jump in, a little update from my neck of the woods. It has been some

wild weather in these parts this last week. I got Awaken, woken, English. 3.30 in the morning on Monday night. I got out to go to the bathroom and then I got this

notice that said 90 mile per hour winds were on the way. And I had my youngest car parked in the garage.

The second car garage was all full of stuff that I've been using to work on the house.

Ran out there in my pajamas, moved all the stuff in the garage, got the car in, moved all

the lawn furniture. It was wild. My neighbor's lawn furniture ended up flying off their second

balcony deck into my yard, all kinds of tree limbs down. Fortunately, I had just trimmed a bunch of

my trees. My dad and I had been working pretty hard to make the trees look better.

And so a lot of the dead branches were already gone. But wow, still so many. And limbs, trees down everywhere. It was wild. And then it did something similar the next day, not as bad. So that's been

kind of wild. And of course, you know, I had scheduled pictures to be taken of the house because I'm

listing it and had scheduled those pictures for Friday and wouldn't you know that a storm would

roll in Monday night and then again on Tuesday. Makes for interesting trying to get your lawn

to look nice, but it's done. Pictures were taken. Video looks amazing. Technology is fantastic, what they can do. It's really happy with

the way that it all turned out and perfect segue into this episode. Also so incredibly sad to watch

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