Ep #163: Controlling the Controllables

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

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

I know what it’s like to go through life feeling like things are going exactly the way they’re supposed to. And then, your spouse dies. All of a sudden, everything feels out of control. We start questioning everything, getting caught in loops of worrying, dwelling, and fretting about things we can’t control. But we don’t have to control everything to feel in control of our lives. Tune in this week to find out how.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 163, controlling the controllables.
0:06.7	It's easy to feel out of control after your spouse dies. And the reason we feel out of control
0:12.4	isn't actually because we have less control than we did before our spouse died. It's because we're
0:18.9	spending so much energy focused on what we can't control
0:22.9	that we block ourselves from seeing what we can. And the truth is, we don't have to control
0:30.1	everything to feel in control of our lives. We just have to know the difference between what's
0:37.2	controllable and what isn't and adjust accordingly.
0:40.8	And the less energy we spend focused on what we can't control, the more energy we have to focus on what we can.
0:50.0	How do we do that?
0:51.8	Let's talk about it in this episode.
0:55.7	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.
1:09.7	Here's your host, Master certified life coach, grief expert,
1:14.0	widow and mom, Krista St. Germain. Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. How's your
1:22.2	summer going? Hopefully, when you listen to this, I will be on my way back or just back from our cabin,
1:30.6	our family's cabin in Colorado, really looking forward to getting out there for almost a
1:36.1	whole week and a half. So we're heading out there here in a couple of days and trying to do all
1:40.8	the last minute things, including recording a podcast for you so that it's
1:44.7	ready when I get back. So haven't read any listener reviews lately, and I wanted to read a couple.
1:51.0	I so appreciate when you leave a listener review because that's what the little algorithm responds to,
1:57.5	right? The more listener reviews there are, and of course, the more positive they are,
2:01.6	the more this podcast gets out in front of other people who need it, and that's what I want, right?
2:06.2	There's, gosh, 12 million widows. Let's reach at least one million of them. That's still my goal.
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