363. Reframing Your Grief Story: A Widows Unfiltered Interview with Wendy Veazie
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What if your grief could become part of an intentional, meaningful next chapter?
In this powerful conversation, I sit down with my client Wendy Veazie as she shares her deeply personal journey after the sudden loss of her husband, Peter, and how she learned to reframe her grief story and navigate unimaginable pain without losing herself.
In this episode, Wendy opens up about the shock of sudden loss, the physical reality of grief, the stories we tell ourselves after tragedy, and how coaching helped her shift from focusing solely on loss to honoring both her pain and the gifts of her marriage. Together, we explore how grief can coexist with gratitude, authenticity, and intentional living.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we jump into today's episode, I want to let you know that Mom Goes On offers needs-based |
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| 0:21.6 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:25.5 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 363, Widows Unfiltered, and Interview with Wendy V.C. |
| 0:36.4 | 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. |
| 0:50.4 | Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:59.1 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I've got a great interview for you today |
| 1:05.1 | with a lovely client, Wendy. I think you're really going to relate to her widowhood story. I won't say too much |
| 1:12.1 | about it. We'll just get into it here in a second. But I did want to give you a little update on my life |
| 1:16.6 | because I haven't done that in a while. The highlights. So after this podcast episode releases |
| 1:23.4 | next week, I will turn 50, which is wild to me because it feels like the last decade just |
| 1:29.6 | kind of went by in a flash. Right after I turned 40 was when Hugo died. And so I'm coming up on |
| 1:35.8 | the 10-year death anniversary for that, and it's just kind of wild to me to be going into a new |
| 1:40.6 | decade. Age has never really been a thing that bothers me or that I think much about, |
| 1:45.9 | but grief time is so strange to have had an entire decade past just still feels wild to me. |
| 1:51.8 | It feels like it was yesterday and also simultaneously 10 years ago, and that's just a really |
| 1:56.8 | strange thing. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about because I do think it's just grief time being weird. And let's see what else. Just had a coaching on the couch event at my |
| 2:06.4 | house last week, which is always a blast. I have usually about 11 clients come in and they come |
| 2:13.1 | from all over and we spend a day together just coaching and we bond and hang out and go to dinner |
| 2:20.1 | and they usually get in the night before and have dinner together and just get to spend |
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