413: Tools for Processing Grief to Experience Post-Traumatic Growth with Krista St-Germain
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today, I'm speaking with Krista St-Germain. Krista is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, and host of the Widowed Mom Podcast, where she specializes in helping widows move forward and love their life again.
When her husband was killed by a drunk driver just 3 ½ months after their wedding, her life was flipped upside down. As she worked through her loss, she realized that she can leverage her loss to make her life better and has helped others do the same. Her Moms Go On program has given hundreds of widowed moms the tools they need to create futures they can get excited about.
In today's conversation, we dig into the biggest reasons people avoid talking about grief, the magic that can be found in post-traumatic growth and how grief doesn't always work in the 5 stages that we've always heard about.
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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- Why grief is so much more than just the feeling of bereavement.
- How traumatic loss gives us the power to redefine our lives, find new meaning, and live more authentically.
- Why Krista believes that the five stages of grief (DABDA) has become outdated, and what it means to truly and authentically navigate grief and the ways it affects our lives.
- What Krista would've done differently to prepare for traumatic loss.
- How to rethink our relationship to money as we navigate grief.
- What–and what not–to say to people who have lost loved ones.
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| 0:00.0 | If grief is the natural response to loss, and we can't go back and change that the loss happened, |
| 0:05.9 | that means we're always going to have a response to it. |
| 0:08.6 | So yes, we may change our response over time, right? |
| 0:11.7 | We might think different things about that loss over time. |
| 0:15.4 | That's amazing and normal. |
| 0:17.3 | But also, we can't undo it, which means it doesn't end. |
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