342. 5 Ideas for Creating New Traditions After Loss
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Are the holidays feeling heavy this year?
Maybe you're dreading the traditions that used to bring joy. Maybe you're wondering how to navigate celebrations that feel incomplete without your person. Here's what I want you to know: You're allowed to do things differently.
Listen in this week as I share five ideas for creating new traditions after loss, not because we need to replace what we had, but because sometimes we need space for something different that fits who we are now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 342, five ideas for creating new traditions after loss. |
| 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. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. It is holiday time. So if the holidays are |
| 0:39.0 | feeling heavy or complicated and you're thinking about traditions and maybe a little bit |
| 0:42.9 | worried about how it's all going to go down, I hope this episode helps you. I wanted to share |
| 0:48.5 | a few ideas for new holiday traditions, not because we're trying to replace what you had, |
| 0:55.5 | but because sometimes we want to create space for something new. We want to create space for evolution. We want to |
| 1:00.1 | figure out what it is that we might need now. And sometimes that means doing things differently. |
| 1:04.6 | So please consider what I offer in this episode, just invitations. Never any rules, just |
| 1:10.8 | possibilities, right? Brow from them if you |
| 1:13.0 | like them, adjust them, ignore them completely, if none of them feel quite right to you. But if the |
| 1:19.5 | older traditions feel too painful or don't feel like they fit you anymore, you are allowed to try |
| 1:24.7 | something different. And so here's some different ideas. All right, |
| 1:28.0 | here's five things that just might be a little bit different that maybe you want to incorporate |
| 1:31.0 | this year. Number one, write a letter to your person every year. Every holiday season, |
| 1:37.8 | consider taking time to write a letter to your person. Maybe in that letter you tell them what's |
| 1:43.0 | changed. You tell them what stayed the same. You tell them what's changed. You tell them what stayed the |
| 1:45.2 | same. You tell them what you miss. You tell them what made you smile, what you wish they could have |
| 1:49.7 | seen, right? Anything that you want them to know as you approach the holiday season, maybe it could be |
| 1:56.0 | on a particular day of the holiday season. If you celebrate Christmas, maybe it's something you do on |
| 2:00.4 | Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. It doesn't really matter, right? But if there's something that you want to say, |
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