321. What No One Tells You About Feeling Stuck After Loss
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.6 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Feeling stuck after loss looks different than most people imagine. You're functioning, checking off your to-do list, and everyone thinks you're doing well. They tell you how strong you are. But inside, you're watching your life happen from the outside, going through the motions without really feeling connected to any of it.
This particular kind of stuckness happens when you're past the point of barely surviving but nowhere near thriving. You might feel detached or foggy, not excited about the future but not wanting to go back to the past either.
Join me this week as I pull back the curtain on what's really happening when you feel stuck after loss, and more importantly, why you don't have to stay there.
Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/321
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 321, what no one tells you about feeling stuck after loss. |
| 0:11.4 | 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 |
| 0:23.3 | truly look forward to. Here's your host, master certified life coach, grief expert, widow, and mom, |
| 0:31.3 | Krista St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 0:37.8 | Inspection is coming tomorrow for the house. Cross your fingers that there are no boogie people lying somewhere in these walls that I am unaware of. Hopefully it will all go well. |
| 0:48.0 | I also wanted to say thank you so much to those of you who have left listener reviews lately. I read every one of them and sometimes they are just |
| 0:55.1 | the brightest parts of my day. And if you have considered leaving a review but haven't, I would just |
| 1:00.6 | absolutely love it if you did. Reviews really do help get the podcast in front of more widows. |
| 1:06.1 | And I know even if someone never pays me a dime and works with me in one of my coaching programs, |
| 1:10.1 | just listening to the podcast helps them. And it is still my mission to get this podcast in front |
| 1:15.6 | of as many widows as possible. There are 11 plus million widows just in the U.S. alone. |
| 1:20.8 | And while we do have now over a million episodes of the podcast downloaded, we can do better. |
| 1:25.6 | I know we can. Last week, we talked about something |
| 1:28.9 | called the invisible ceiling and how we can unknowingly limit what we believe is possible for us |
| 1:34.4 | after loss and how a lot of us are doing this. And we looked at how belief patterns just kind of |
| 1:39.3 | show up, right? And we don't even choose them necessarily on purpose. We don't even recognize that |
| 1:44.7 | maybe they are optional. And so they just keep really limiting the experience that we get to have. |
| 1:50.1 | They keep us stuck underneath this ceiling. So if you haven't listened to that episode, |
| 1:53.7 | definitely go check it out as soon as you're done with this one. But if you've been feeling |
| 1:57.5 | flat or disconnected or kind of like you're just going through the motions, |
| 2:01.2 | you are not alone. I get asked that all the time. Is something wrong with me? Is this normal? |
| 2:06.3 | And I just want to tell you, gosh, like, there's really nothing that isn't normal in grief. Now, |
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