Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 122, Upper Limit Problems.

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.

Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.

Ever wondered why sometimes you start to have success but then sabotage it, or why you experience

happiness in one area of life but then create drama in another? Why is it that when something

great happens, you can't enjoy it or you start worrying about losing it? What is actually going on? The answer just might be an

upper limit problem. These are patterns I've coached many widows on, and I've noticed in my life from

time to time, but not really understood on a heart level until very recently. So today we're going to talk all about

the idea of upper limit problems. I'm going to tell you what an upper limit problem is,

let you know how it's been showing up for me, and help you recognize where it might be

happening in your life, even if it hasn't happened yet, because if you're working on truly loving life

after loss, I'm guessing it's only a matter of time until it happens to you too. So please listen

all the way through. Ready? Okay, first a little backstory from my life to kind of put this in

context.

So in the early days after Hugo died, I didn't want to eat anything.

I genuinely wasn't hungry.

About the only thing I could stomach was smoothies from smoothie king.

Then later, when my appetite came back, I went into the period where I started eating everything,

especially my feelings. And the meal train was happening in full force. People were bringing us

meals, gift cards constantly, and they weren't necessarily the healthiest meals. But I ate them

gratefully because I didn't want to cook. And then at night, after I would get the kids to bed,

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