Ep #118: Sliding Backward in Grief

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

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I'm showing you why there is no such thing as sliding backward in your grief, and why thinking this doesn’t serve us. I’m sharing the big misconceptions about grief that we have to let go of, and I’m offering some loving answers to be ready with when your brain wants to tell you that you’re sliding backward.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, Episode 118, Sliding Backward in Grief.
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 to.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:32.6	Have you ever wondered if you're sliding backward in your grief?
0:39.5	You were doing so well, and if you're sliding backward in your grief, you were doing so well,
0:45.9	and now you're not, and therefore you start worrying that you're sliding backward?
0:50.4	What if I told you there's just no such thing?
0:57.8	That sliding backward is something we made up and that at no point does thinking it serve us. Would you believe me? That's what we're going to talk about in this week's episode.
1:05.3	Little update from my life before we get into the episode. It's almost fall, y'all. And if you follow me, you know that
1:14.4	for me fall starts in August. I love fall. So I'm ready. The boyfriend and I did some shopping,
1:21.1	finally got some furniture for the formal living room. We had, we combined our own furniture and
1:25.9	made furniture for our family room. But we have a formal living room and has had, we combined our own furniture and made furniture for our family room,
1:27.8	but we have a formal living room and has been completely bare since we moved into the house in June
1:32.8	and you can't even use it because there's literally nowhere to sit. So bought some furniture for that
1:37.9	room, kind of exciting, bought a new dining room table because as much as I really did love,
1:42.7	the one that I had, it just doesn't match
1:44.3	this new house. It's really hideous color in this house. And the house is about to be fallified. So
1:51.2	that's what's happening around here. Enough about me. Let's talk about sliding backward in grief,
1:56.9	shall we? Okay. This is actually going to be a short episode, but it needs to be done because,
2:01.9	you know the saying, right? If I had a nickel for every time that a widow got caught up on this
2:06.6	idea of sliding backward in grief, right? You get the idea. So here's what happens. Someone in my mom
2:14.3	goes on coaching program will ask me for coaching and they will say something like,
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