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The Widowed Mom Podcast

Ep #115: Returning to Work

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

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

4.6649 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’ve decided to go back to work or you’re unsure whether you want to, we’re tackling it all on today’s podcast. I’m sharing the common pitfalls I often see, why making this choice with intention and concrete reasoning is so important, and my best tips and suggestions for supporting yourself through whatever decision you land on. 

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/115

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 115, returning to work.

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.

0:32.8

Hey there, welcome to another episode of The Podcast. So we're going to talk about returning to work today

0:39.8

because it's something I end up coaching on quite frequently. And maybe you've decided to return

0:44.9

to work. Maybe you're not sure if you want to return to work. Maybe you've already returned to

0:48.7

work and it's not going very well. Maybe you're thinking about different work. We're just going to

0:52.8

tackle all of it. And before we do that little quick update on my life, so I'm about to head to Colorado to

0:59.5

take a week off from work, a week off from my business, a week off, which I have never done

1:07.6

in all of the years that I have been coaching. I have never actually completely unplugged from work.

1:15.4

And by that, I mean, I've gone places, but I've also coached while I've been there.

1:22.6

And I'm not going to coach next week.

1:25.2

I'm actually just going to relax and be with my family.

1:28.3

Now, I can't promise that I won't be actually writing emails and doing things because,

1:33.0

frankly, it's just always on my brain. It's hard to shut off for me because I really do love

1:37.2

what I do. But I am taking a vacation and I'm recording this podcast before I leave,

1:42.9

which means that I will be in Colorado

1:46.0

on the fifth anniversary of Hugo's passing, which if you've listened to the podcast for a while,

1:51.6

you already know, has some special meaning for us. Hugo loved the cabin, my dad's place in the Rocky

1:59.5

Mountains. And yeah, so it's just, it's kind of always

2:03.3

a place that I feel connected to him, but a place that I also always kind of simultaneously miss him.

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