Deep Dive: Navigating Grief - Finding Your Way After the Death of Your Spouse

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When major catastrophes happen in your life, you suffer. And when you suffer, you tend to just want to curl up like one of those little roly poly bugs. You want to curl up and hide under things. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
0:07.0	Search for Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast and follow my Deep Dive today.
0:17.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive.
0:20.0	Deep dive. Dr. Laura's Deep Dive, Deep Dive, Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast.
0:26.8	Navigating grief, finding your way after the death of your spouse.
0:31.5	When major catastrophes happen in your life, you suffer.
0:35.7	And when you suffer, you tend to just want to curl up like one of those
0:40.5	little roly-poly bugs. You want to curl up and hide under things. I know the feeling, because that
0:46.3	happened to me. When my husband died in 2015, I was in a bit of a state of shock at first, and although
0:53.5	I kept doing my radio program when I was off air and not distracted by work, it was a terrible time.
1:00.2	So I know what I'm talking about when listeners call me looking for support after the death of their spouse, like Drew, who phoned me shortly after returning home from his wife's funeral.
1:16.0	Drew, welcome to the program.
1:18.3	Hi, Dr. Laura. I'm 55, and I'm returning home just an hour ago from my, the funeral of my wife, who we've been married 27 years.
1:33.9	I walked into the kitchen.
1:36.3	It's quiet.
1:37.8	It's just me and my Yorkie.
1:39.6	And I kind of said, so what's next?
1:43.1	What, you know, What do I do?
1:45.0	I turned on the radio, and I saw your station, and I knew my wife enjoyed listening to you and respecting your opinion.
1:54.7	And so I guess the question is, what's the grieving process?
2:00.1	What am I going to be looking at next? I don't know.
2:03.3	Future. Grieving process is going to be bumpy. You're going to wake up some days and go,
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