348. How to Regulate Your Nervous System After Losing a Partner
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
If life feels harder in your body since your person died, if you notice yourself feeling grumpy, exhausted, numb, or overwhelmed in ways that don't always make sense, you’re not imagining it.
When your person dies, your nervous system loses something foundational that you may not have even realized you had. Suddenly, things that used to feel easy feel hard, everything feels out of whack, and we don't feel at home in our bodies the way we're used to.
Join me this week as I help you understand what's happening inside your nervous system after loss, how to recognize different nervous system states when they show up, and how to support yourself in ways that actually help.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we jump into today's episode, I want to share something that might help if you're in the |
| 0:05.0 | early days of grief. Grief Essentials is an eight-week course with live support designed to make |
| 0:11.3 | grief feel more manageable. Get the tools, clarity, and compassionate support you need to find your |
| 0:17.9 | footing again. Visit Coaching with Krista.com forward slash grief essentials for all the |
| 0:25.0 | details. Welcome to the widowed mom podcast, episode 348, how to regulate your nervous system |
| 0:34.9 | after losing a partner. |
| 0:52.2 | 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 to. |
| 0:56.9 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, |
| 1:05.5 | widow and mom, Krista St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. If life feels harder in your body since your person died, if you notice yourself feeling grumpy, |
| 1:10.3 | exhausted, numb, or overwhelmed in ways |
| 1:13.2 | that don't always make sense, you are not imagining that. Grief affects our nervous system. |
| 1:19.1 | And today I want to help you understand what's happening inside your nervous system after loss, |
| 1:23.3 | how to recognize different nervous system states when they show up, and how to support yourself |
| 1:28.2 | in ways that actually do help. And this matters, not just so that you feel better in the short term, |
| 1:33.5 | but because learning these skills makes it possible to help you build a life that you love again. |
| 1:38.8 | And I really want that for you. So first, what is happening? Right. What is even going on in there? When your person dies, your nervous |
| 1:48.3 | system loses something foundational that you may not have even realized you had. It loses a very |
| 1:53.8 | familiar sense of safety and predictability. It loses someone that your nervous system was actually |
| 2:00.3 | used to co-regulating with. |
| 2:02.3 | And we often don't anticipate the impact of this loss on our nervous system. |
| 2:07.3 | When we don't understand what our nervous system is doing, it's really easy to turn that |
| 2:11.8 | confusion toward ourselves and make it mean something about us when it really doesn't. |
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