323. When Life After Loss Feels Hard
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.6 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Life after loss can feel heavy. Not just in the early days of grief, but years later when you're managing moves, anniversaries, and unexpected challenges all at once.
When your brain gets stuck in "everything is hard mode," it becomes a pattern-seeking machine that filters every experience through that lens. The to-do lists multiply, the emotions intensify, and suddenly you're living in what feels like a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. But here's what I've learned: You don't have to change everything about your situation to make it feel more manageable.
Join me this week to learn why your brain might be stuck in "everything is hard" mode, the two key shifts that can help you feel more capable, and practical ways to support yourself when life feels overwhelming.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 323, when life after loss feels hard. |
| 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 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. Today I want to talk about something I think a lot of |
| 0:38.4 | us experience after loss, even if we don't always say it out loud. And that's what to do when it just |
| 0:44.0 | feels hard. You don't have to be early in grief. You don't have to be drowning. Sometimes life after loss |
| 0:50.4 | is heavy, no matter how long it's been or what's going on, right? Sometimes it just feels |
| 0:55.8 | heavy and hard. So in this episode, I'm going to walk you through why your brain might be |
| 1:00.6 | telling you everything is too much, a deeper look at how we relate to what feels hard, and I want to |
| 1:05.8 | offer you a framework that you can use to help you feel more supported without needing to change everything, |
| 1:11.8 | without needing to control things you can't. But I think it's going to help. So update from my world, |
| 1:17.9 | by the time you listen to this, I should be packing up the very last of the boxes and working on |
| 1:22.9 | the new house. At the time of the recording, and fingers crossed that all things go smoothly, the move is scheduled for August 5th. |
| 1:31.3 | So you should be hearing this on the fourth. |
| 1:33.3 | So I will be in the very back end of packing. |
| 1:36.1 | Also, I will have successfully navigated the ninth death anniversary of Hugo's passing. |
| 1:46.8 | August 1st was the day that Hugo died in 2016. |
| 1:53.5 | And it's interesting how, you know, this will be in my ninth one. They've all felt so different. |
| 2:05.8 | And this one, as I come up to it, feels, I don't want to say harder, but different. And in some ways, more impactful maybe than others in the past, primarily because I just, I miss him so much. Having gone through what I've |
| 2:11.7 | been through this year and the breakup and selling my house and all the things, I'm also watching |
| 2:16.5 | my brain romanticize how that never |
| 2:18.8 | would have happened with Hugo and how life would have been better if he'd been there. Now, |
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