355. If You’re Avoiding Everyone Right Now, This Is for You
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Have you noticed yourself avoiding everyone lately, wondering if something might be wrong?
After the loss of your person, even simple social interactions can suddenly feel overwhelming. If invitations feel heavy, texts go unanswered, or you just want more time alone, you might worry that you're isolating too much or doing grief “wrong.”
Join me this week as I dive into what it really means when you're avoiding everyone during grief and why it’s far more common and often healthier than you might think. You’ll learn the three different experiences we often label as isolation, how to tell whether avoiding everyone is nourishing solitude or protective avoidance, and how to check in with yourself without judgment.
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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 355. If you're avoiding everyone right now, |
| 0:35.3 | this is for you. |
| 0:52.3 | 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. |
| 0:56.5 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach grief expert, widow, and mom, Krista St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. |
| 1:05.2 | Today we're talking about something that a lot of widows quietly worry about, especially in |
| 1:10.4 | the early months after loss, which is |
| 1:12.8 | avoiding people. Maybe you've noticed that you don't want to respond to texts the way that you |
| 1:17.9 | used to. Maybe invitations feel heavy. Maybe the idea of going to a gathering makes your whole |
| 1:24.3 | body say, no thank you. Or maybe you've just been spending a lot more time alone |
| 1:29.3 | and you've been wondering if that means that something's wrong. A lot of widows judge themselves for |
| 1:35.0 | this. And they start asking questions like, am I isolating too much? Should I be pushing myself more? |
| 1:41.6 | Is this bad for my grief? So in this episode, we're going to talk about |
| 1:46.4 | why this happens, including three different types of isolation, what it might actually mean |
| 1:52.6 | if you're noticing yourself wanting to isolate, how to know if it's something you want to change, |
| 1:57.5 | and why you probably don't need to worry about it nearly as much as you think. |
| 2:02.9 | And most importantly, we're going to talk about how you get to be the authority on what's right |
| 2:07.8 | for you. Because a lot of the suffering around this topic comes from believing that there's some |
| 2:13.4 | correct way that we're supposed to be doing grief socially, and there just isn't. Before we jump in, |
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