349. How to Survive Your Wedding Anniversary as a Widow
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Does the thought of your wedding anniversary send a wave of dread through your body? You’re not alone.
For many widows, the anniversary of their wedding can feel even harder than the day their partner passed. But no matter what you’re feeling - dread, sadness, confusion - there are no rules for how to experience the day.
Tune in this week as I guide you through the emotional landscape of your wedding anniversary and offer practical tools to survive it with kindness toward yourself.
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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 349, How to Survive Your Wedding |
| 0:34.9 | Anniversary as a widow. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, |
| 0:46.5 | 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. |
| 0:52.9 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, |
| 0:57.2 | widow and mom, Krista St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 1:04.6 | Today we're talking about something that almost every widow dreads at some point, your wedding |
| 1:10.2 | anniversary. And if that date is coming up for you, |
| 1:13.2 | or if you've already noticed that your body is tightening, just hearing me say the words wedding |
| 1:17.8 | anniversary, you are not alone. You are not doing this wrong. This episode is about helping you get |
| 1:23.9 | through that day, hopefully with less suffering and more self-trust. I want to start |
| 1:29.6 | here because I think this really matters, and that is to say that there is no wrong way to feel |
| 1:36.5 | about your anniversary after your person dies. Everyone listening to this episode is going to feel |
| 1:42.8 | slightly differently. No one is right. No one is wrong. |
| 1:46.9 | So if you feel differently, then how I talk about how you might feel in this episode, |
| 1:52.5 | I want you to not interpret that as me saying that you are doing anything wrong or that anything |
| 1:57.8 | has gone wrong. That is just not the case. Again, grief is so unique. |
| 2:02.4 | Every one of us is having a very unique experience, as unique as a fingerprint. So that said, |
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