341. Parenting While Grieving
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, angry, or deeply tired as you navigate solo parenting after loss?
Maybe you judge yourself for those feelings. Maybe you worry that you're barely holding it together. Here's what I need you to hear: You are not doing it wrong. You are not failing. You are simply a human doing something that is incredibly hard.
Listen in this week to hear five key insights about parenting while grieving that will help you give yourself the credit, permission, and support you deserve.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 341, parenting while grieving. |
| 0:10.2 | 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. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we're going to talk about |
| 0:37.2 | something that comes up |
| 0:38.3 | all the time in my coaching, which is what it means to parent while grieving. And I know it can be a |
| 0:44.9 | tender and exhausting and sometimes infuriating experience, which is to do the job of two parents |
| 0:52.5 | in the wake of loss. It can feel like it's all on your shoulders. It can feel |
| 0:56.5 | really disheartening when you didn't want to do this alone. It wasn't what you signed up for. It wasn't |
| 1:02.0 | what you expected. It wasn't what you would choose for yourself if you could. Yet, here we are. You might |
| 1:09.1 | find yourself feeling overwhelmed and angry, deeply tired, and maybe |
| 1:13.6 | you might even believe that you're barely holding it together. And what I really want you to get |
| 1:17.6 | out of this episode, if nothing else, is that you are not alone, you are not doing it wrong, |
| 1:22.8 | you are not failing, you are simply a human doing something that is incredibly hard. So in this episode, |
| 1:29.9 | I want to give you a few helpful ways to think about parenting and grief so you can give yourself |
| 1:35.1 | the credit, the permission, and hopefully the support that you deserve. So let me walk you through |
| 1:41.1 | five things that I want you to hear. The first. And I really do mean this. |
| 1:47.3 | However you feel is okay. There is no right way to feel. You are not wrong if you don't want to be a |
| 1:56.0 | solo mom. If you don't want to be a solo parent and you are angry about it, maybe you feel numb, maybe you feel overwhelmed, maybe you then judge yourself for all of those feelings, that's the problem. How you feel is not the problem. Judging yourself for how you feel is the problem because all of those feelings are completely normal. It doesn't mean you don't |
| 2:19.2 | love your kids. It doesn't mean you're not grateful for them. It doesn't mean the wrong parent died. |
| 2:23.5 | It doesn't mean anything other than it's hard to be a solo mom. It's hard. And sometimes your grief |
| 2:31.5 | and your parenting will collide. How could they not? It makes sense that you |
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