339. The Most Difficult Part About Being a Widow
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Have you noticed how evenings and weekends hit differently as a widow?
You're moving through your day, managing work, errands, maybe even feeling okay… then you get home, the house quiets down, and suddenly the loneliness gets louder. If you've been wondering whether that’s normal, the answer is yes.
In fact, there are many difficult parts of widowhood that we don't talk about enough. So join me this week as I share what makes widowhood so challenging for the women I work with, plus, I'll give you practical tools you can use immediately to bring more ease to whatever feels hardest right now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the widowed mom podcast, episode 339, the most difficult part about being 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 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. How are you? What is happening? I don't think I've |
| 0:39.1 | given an update in a while. Not a heck of a lot to report other than heading to Vegas for a New Kids on |
| 0:45.0 | the Block concert. Yes, I am a New Kids on the Block fan. I am not ashamed to admit it. I'm going to |
| 0:50.9 | Las Vegas with my dear friend from middle school. We actually met because I was |
| 0:56.3 | wearing a new kids on the block tour jacket in middle school and she commented on it, told me it was a |
| 1:00.9 | nice jacket, a friendship formed. We have seen many new kids on the block concerts together as kids |
| 1:06.0 | and a couple as adults. So we're going to go see them at their residency in Las Vegas. So by the time you |
| 1:11.5 | hear this, hopefully I'll be back from that trip, but that should be a good time. Also, coaching on the couch was a lot of fun. I talked about that a little bit. It's an event that I have for some of my mom goes on clients and graduates where they come to my house and we coach for a day. It was magical. Right before that, yeah, I'm trying |
| 1:28.3 | to remember the timeline. I got the shingles. So that was fun. Do not recommend, definitely intend to |
| 1:33.8 | get the vaccine, but here we are on the other side of it. The itching has finally stopped. I feel much, |
| 1:38.7 | much better. So the most difficult part about being a widow. First of all, there is no one difficult part. It's |
| 1:46.3 | different for everyone, right? So in this episode, I'm not going to tell you what the hardest part |
| 1:51.0 | should be. I just want to help you think about whatever feels hardest for you right now in a way |
| 1:56.4 | that makes it easier. We want to create more ease. So in this episode, I'm going to cover what I |
| 2:01.5 | notice tends to be the most difficult parts of widowhood for the widows that I work with. And I have a long |
| 2:06.3 | list to share with you. I hope you will see yourself in that list. Then I'm going to talk about some |
| 2:10.7 | ways to think about what is difficult about being a widow that make it less difficult. There's so much |
| 2:16.5 | value in thinking about what we think. And then I'm going to |
| 2:19.6 | give you a couple of tools that you can use, and you can use them immediately, to start bringing a |
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