Ep #14: Helping Your Children Grieve

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

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How to use your own grief experience to help your child get through theirs. It’s impossible for us to make them feel better, but that doesn’t mean we can’t help them get to a better place. I’m sharing some things to consider and thoughts you should keep an eye on, as well as some amazing resources so that you are truly never alone in this.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 14, Helping Your Children Grieve.
0:10.2	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.
0:32.7	Hey there, welcome to this episode of the podcast. It feels like a hot minute since I recorded an
0:41.4	episode. It's of course only been a week since an episode actually aired, but between the last time I
0:50.1	recorded an episode and now, I took a lovely vacation to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado
0:57.2	with my two children. My dad and stepmom have a cabin there and we went and stayed and it was amazing.
1:06.6	It was also though a little bit emotional. It kind of always is when I go there because the cabin and the Rocky Mountains were definitely
1:17.0	my husband's favorite place to be on earth.
1:21.3	And we have a lot of memories there, a lot of memories of hiking in the mountains.
1:26.1	Just a few weeks before he died. We hiked a 14er,
1:30.4	Mount Yale in the Collegiate Peaks area. And we just have a lot of good shared memories there.
1:37.6	So always a lot of emotions that come up for me when I make that trip. And what I have learned
1:43.3	is that it's okay, that I can just allow
1:46.8	all of those emotions to be there. I don't have to argue with them. I can just let them be
1:53.0	part of my experience and then choose to think about all the things that make me smile while I'm there and tell stories about Hugo
2:03.4	and think about the fun memories that we made there and enjoy that part of the trip too.
2:10.9	And then of course, it actually just happened to be that on the day I was driving out there, that was the anniversary, the death
2:19.9	anniversary, the day that Hugo had passed. And so, of course, the trip entails driving right by
2:27.5	the spot on the interstate where the accident happened, which is another thing that I choose to make space for. And this time it was interesting
2:38.7	because in past times it's been a little bit worse than it was this time. I think this time
2:47.0	it was easier because I've gotten in the habit of choosing to allow whatever feelings
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