57. The Phrase “New Normal” – Helpful or Hurtful?
The Widowed Mom Podcast
Krista St-Germain
4.9 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Join me on the podcast this week as I discuss how this idea of a new normal can be helpful and liberating. I’m sharing how to get clear on what you’re thinking about your new normal, and where I see widows holding themselves back by trying to accept something they simply don’t like and is not serving them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 57, the phrase new normal, helpful or hurtful. |
| 0:10.2 | 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 |
| 0:23.2 | to. Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista |
| 0:30.5 | St. Germain. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. If this is the first time you've listened, welcome. |
| 0:40.0 | I hope you find this podcast to be really useful no matter where you are in your journey. |
| 0:48.0 | And a little bit about what's been going on in my world lately. Of course, I record these |
| 0:52.4 | podcasts, usually a little bit ahead of time, |
| 0:55.4 | just because I like to plan in advance like that. It feels a little more comfortable to me to not |
| 1:00.8 | have to worry about it the last minute. But in my world, it just feels like it's been nuts lately. |
| 1:07.1 | With everything going on in the world, it's just been nuts. So in my own personal work |
| 1:13.1 | and self-coaching, I've been taking a good, hard look at what it means to be anti-racism |
| 1:20.7 | and kind of challenging my own unintentional thinking about the subject. I think I've been going along in my life, kind of |
| 1:31.1 | thinking I was perhaps more aware of what was going on in my brain than maybe I was. And as with any |
| 1:41.4 | subject, racism, anti-racism, money, you name it. It doesn't really matter the subject that we're talking about. |
| 1:51.2 | I just think it's a good reminder that all of us have unintentional thought patterns, unintentional belief systems that we've picked up just by being humans on the |
| 2:04.2 | planet and just by living in the culture that we live in, there's nothing to be ashamed about |
| 2:09.2 | for having picked up some of those thoughts and belief systems, right? It doesn't mean that |
| 2:15.2 | because thoughts appear in our brain or because our brain has neural |
| 2:19.2 | pathways toward a particular belief. It doesn't mean that we are those thoughts or that we are |
| 2:25.0 | that belief. It doesn't mean that if that belief is there, that we can't change it if we find |
| 2:30.6 | that we no longer want it. And it doesn't mean that we did anything wrong because that thought or |
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