Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 335, three things widows need to get unstuck.

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. If you have ever caught yourself thinking,

I feel stuck, this episode is for you. Maybe you're back to work and taking care of your family,

paying the bills, keeping it all together. And people tell you how strong you are,

which makes you cringe. From the outside, it looks like you're doing great, and you understand why

people think you're doing great, but on the inside, you don't feel great. Instead, you feel flat,

or unmotivated, disconnected, empty, hollow, maybe even robotic. You've survived something you never asked for, and part of you really

wants to love life again, but part of you might feel guilty when you think about it, or you just

really struggle to imagine what it might look like and how you could get there. That space that

you're in is incredibly common for widows, so common in fact that i gave it a name

i call it a grief plateau it's that stuck space between surviving and truly loving life

where things are stable enough that you're functioning but your future feels uncertain and life doesn't feel like

you'd like it to. Nothing's wrong with you for being there. It's actually a really common place

for widows to find themselves, and it makes perfect sense when you understand what's going on in

your brain and in your body. The grief plateau is also a place where growth becomes possible. In fact, I see it as a

huge opportunity if you know how to work with it. So in today's episode, we're going to talk all

about three things that help you get unstuck, or maybe better said, help you remember that you

can move again. Okay, first, why the grief plateau even happens. I want to remind you,

when your person died, your entire system went into survival mode. Your body and brain did

exactly what they're designed to do. They worked to keep you alive. And that's why the early

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