Ep #151: The Merry-Go-Round or the Roller Coaster

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

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

You have a choice to either settle for what feels safe, the merry-go-round, or choose the highs and lows of the roller coaster. I’m sharing why neither the roller coaster or the merry-go-round is wrong, but that your conscious choice between the two is what matters. Learn how to make that choice for yourself today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 151, the merry-go-round or the roller coaster.
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.
0:32.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Just got back from my trip to Puerto Rico last week.
0:40.7	It was so good. I've never been to Puerto Rico. It's a lovely place to go. It's so easy to travel to
0:45.6	because, you know, it's a territory of the U.S. so you don't need a passport. You don't have to worry
0:49.1	about customs. And everyone was so friendly. The ocean was amazing. And listen, this is a big deal. I did not check
0:58.6	email or Slack or bring my laptop, y'all. I have not completely gone like out of range,
1:07.1	whatever the term for that is, since I became a coach, literally. And I've taken a lot of
1:13.2	vacation since then, but I have always taken my laptop with me or I've always been in some way
1:17.8	plugged in or available. And I told my team that they could text me if there was a crisis,
1:22.0	but otherwise to handle it. And they did. And I came back and everything was handled.
1:26.9	And there was no fires and it was
1:29.4	amazing. So it feels like a big accomplishment to me. And I'm proud of having created a business
1:35.3	that can run without me. So, okay, let's get into this episode because I want to talk about the
1:39.8	merry-go-round or the roller coaster. And the impetus for this episode is a scene in one of my favorite
1:47.3	movies with Steve Martin called Parenthood. It's a movie from the late 80s. And in it,
1:54.7	there's a scene, which I'm going to read to you. I actually looked it up so that I could get it
1:59.8	exactly accurate. And there's a scene where
2:03.2	Steve Martin's grandma tells a story and Steve Martin's not having it. But I just love this story.
2:11.2	And more than anything, I love the idea of what it represents in terms of what's possible for our lives. So here's how it goes.
2:19.4	The kind of wacky old grandma who she's just, you know, up there in age and maybe her
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