322. Trusting Yourself as a Widow

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Do you find yourself second-guessing every decision since your loss?

When grief hits, the ground beneath your feet doesn't just shift - it disappears entirely. The person who helped you think through decisions, who was your emotional anchor and nervous system co-regulator, is gone. Now you're trying to navigate life with a brain on high alert and a body that's exhausted, wondering why every decision feels impossible and why you can't seem to trust your own judgment anymore.

Tune in this week to learn why self-trust after loss isn’t just about confidence - it’s about your entire relationship with yourself. You’ll hear why this loss of self-trust is so common after losing your spouse, and more importantly, how to rebuild it.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/322

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0:00.0	Welcome to the widowed mom podcast, episode 32, trusting yourself as a widow.
0:10.3	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
0:23.2	to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista
0:30.5	St. Germain.
0:33.0	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:36.3	Today we're going to talk about something I don't think we talk about enough, especially when it comes to life after loss. And that is how to trust yourself again as a widow. If you feel like you second guess so many things now, if making decisions feels harder than it used to. If you catch yourself polling everyone else before you do
0:55.3	anything, you're not alone. And in this episode, I want to talk about why this loss of self-trust is so
1:02.8	common, what's happening in your brain and your body, why it can hit women harder than men,
1:10.0	and how to start rebuilding self-trust in a real
1:12.5	meaningful way, not with affirmations that you don't actually believe, but with tools that
1:17.8	genuinely work. Little update for me, I decided not to go to the cabin. I can't remember when I made
1:24.4	that decision, but my daughter decided to come home before she goes to Prague. So I will have a
1:29.8	couple of days with her. I was thinking that my only way to see her first was going to be to meet her at the
1:34.4	cabin. And then I would be driving her car home, but she has decided to drive herself here. She gets here
1:39.3	tomorrow. And then I will get a couple of days with her and then take her to the airport where she will head off
1:46.1	to Prague. And I know it's going to be an amazing experience for her. She's in a different role this time.
1:51.3	Instead of being a student as a part of a study abroad program, she's on the staff. So she'll be
1:56.0	helping other students have a good experience. And she knows exactly what it is like to go to a foreign country
2:01.3	where you don't know the culture and in this case she's not going to speak the language either.
2:07.5	So I know she's going to have a good experience. I'm going to miss her, but I'm glad that I actually
2:12.2	get to see her before she leaves. So trusting yourself as a widow. Let's talk about it.
2:20.8	First of all, why does it even happen? For many of my clients,
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