Dating While Grieving with Krista St. Germain
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Krista St-Germain is a mom, grief expert and life coach for widowed moms and host of the Widowed Moms Podcast. She joins the show today to discuss sex, dating, and love after experiencing the traumatic loss of a partner or any individual in your life. We discuss the grieving process and why it isn’t linear, knowing when to start dating again, navigating the guilt around searching for a new partner, keeping their memory alive while moving on, rediscovering yourself, learning your triggers, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
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| 0:19.5 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back for another episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:24.2 | On today's episode, we are talking to Krista St. Germain. |
| 0:27.5 | She is a grief expert and life coach specifically for widowed moms. |
| 0:31.0 | She hosts the widowed moms podcast and has incredible insight for all of us about |
| 0:37.2 | how to really process grief and how to date |
| 0:41.6 | after losing somebody you love. Specifically, of course, in this case, a partner, a husband, |
| 0:48.6 | but also in any situation that you lose somebody, it could be after a breakup where you lose a partner |
| 0:55.9 | that you thought you were going to have and you were going to spend the rest of your life with |
| 1:00.2 | and you have to figure out how to get back out there. You have to figure out how to love somebody |
| 1:03.8 | new or it could be about losing a friend and feeling that grief and having to communicate |
| 1:08.3 | your emotional needs to somebody. This is a really important episode. |
| 1:12.3 | And obviously, we never plan to lose somebody that we love. |
| 1:16.1 | We never prepare for that. |
| 1:17.8 | And so I think the more we can be educated about how to go about that and also how to |
| 1:22.2 | support people in our lives if they go through that, I think the better we all are for |
| 1:26.1 | it. |
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| 2:02.5 | and you're going to use code seeing other people because that's going to get you 10% off. |
| 2:06.9 | And you are going to be the best guest at your friends giving dinner because bad or that |
| 2:11.9 | matters cookies are amazing. |
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