Ep #128: Why Do I Feel So Guilty?

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

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Do you wish you did things differently while you had the chance, or find yourself ruminating on ways you could have prevented your person’s death? Does this spark guilt in the pit of your stomach? I've been there. But you don’t need to act from this place of guilt, you can love your way through it, and I’m showing you how.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 128. Why do I feel so guilty?
0:10.4	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.
0:32.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. It is officially my favorite season. It's been my
0:40.3	favorite season for a while, but the pool is now closed. I'm recording this on Halloween.
0:45.8	Our house, you know, which we just bought in June, is, it's spooky and it's fun, at least the
0:51.9	porches. And hopefully, since I've never been in this neighborhood,
0:55.0	we'll get lots of trick-or-treaters. I've been told to expect around 90, which is more than I used
0:59.6	to get in my old neighborhood. So I'm excited about that. And we splurged and we're doing full-size
1:03.3	candy bars, which I've always wanted to be the house that gave away full-sized candy bars, right? That's so fun. So we're doing that. And then also kind of fun that
1:12.1	my dad has been teaching my kids how to weld. He has a shop and he's, you know, just gifted when it
1:19.5	comes to all things construction. And so he's been teaching them to weld. And so he made some really
1:25.9	cool little spiders out of metal. And then my daughter made
1:28.7	the coolest little pumpkin spider stand. So it's totally something she welded out of metal,
1:34.8	all the spider legs, and then you put a pumpkin on top of it. So we're going to put that out a little
1:39.0	bit later. So anyway, that's what's happening in my world. So let's talk about guilt.
1:46.6	Guilt is one of the most common emotions that I see widows struggling with. I struggled with it a lot.
1:54.1	After Hugo died, I told myself so many stories that caused guilt that I should have pulled up further on the highway and that
2:01.7	I should have had that tire checked, you know, that it was just my fault, that the accident happened,
2:06.7	that then later even in the hospital that it was my fault because I authorized the surgery
2:11.3	that then, you know, later as they were working to get him ready for, things just went all
2:17.1	downhill and I blamed myself for that.
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