Ep #110: The Limits of Hope

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Even though I’ve always believed in the value of hope, it’s not always the fuel we need. My wish for you as you listen in today is to think about the role of hope in your life right now and decide how it serves you, when you want to use it, and when you don’t.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 110, The Limits of Hope.
0:10.3	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.
0:32.7	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. The move is complete, you all. If you've been
0:40.7	listening to the podcast, you know that my boyfriend and I bought a house and have been moving
0:47.0	and the movers came. The movers went. It is done. We are in the new house. I still haven't
0:53.8	actually sold my house yet, so I need to do that, but We are in the new house. I still haven't actually sold my house yet,
0:55.4	so I need to do that, but we're in the house. And I let all the feelings be there because I had a lot
1:02.0	of them. Some of them not really anticipated, right? But I've been in my old house for 17 years,
1:07.2	lots of memories there. Both of my children were raised there. We moved there when my daughter
1:12.9	was six months old, maybe. And so every room in the house had memories, everywhere, memories,
1:20.7	just going through all this stuff. And it was not easy. So I had to go through kind of my own
1:25.3	little grieving process. And I just let myself do that.
1:29.2	And I dealt with the grief grenades as they showed up because boy, howdy, did they? And also what I did
1:35.4	was I just decided in advance to love the new house. I mean, it's hard not to love, quite honestly.
1:43.7	It's beautiful. But I remember a few years
1:48.0	ago when my teacher, Brooke, moved from her home in California and she moved to Texas. And she shared
1:55.9	that story. And she talked about how powerful it was for her to just tell her brain in advance that we were going to love Texas.
2:05.4	And because the brain finds what it looks for.
2:08.3	And so I decided that I would also follow that advice and just decide in advance that I would love this neighborhood.
2:16.8	I would love this house. And I would ask my brain to look for all the advance that I would love this neighborhood. I would love this house,
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