Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, Episode 168, Tornadoes, and Post Traumatic Growth.

Have you ever felt put off at the idea of experiencing growth after the death of your spouse?

Maybe someone mentioned post-traumatic growth, and it just felt kind of icky.

Or maybe you've never even heard the term post-traumatic growth.

Either way, you're not alone.

And in today's podcast episode, I want to offer you a different way to think about post-traumatic growth that's worked for me and for my clients.

And it might help you too.

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.

Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Heather's Camp, y'all. It was so good.

I know I talked about it before I left and I talk about it a lot because it's important to me.

But for those of you who, maybe this is your

first podcast episode, Heather's camp is a camp for youth who are blind or visually impaired. And it is

in memory of my sorority sister, Heather Mueller. And we created it in 2000, some of my sorority

sisters and myself in her memory because she loved little kids.

She specifically loved helping little kids who had special needs.

She was working on getting her master's degree in early childhood special education.

And when she died, we really wanted to do something that she would have loved.

And so we created this camp. And so we've had this experience

annually since 2000, but we haven't had it since 2019 because of COVID. So this was the first time

that we got to get back together with our campers, kind of get the band back together again.

And it was amazing. Also, Heather's camp,

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