Ep #2: Myths of Grief

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

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I’m sharing six myths of grief and walking through why each one is inaccurate. I talk about why grief is a normal, natural response to loss and why some common platitudes about grieving are so off-base. I also offer up some suggestions for moving through grief without forcing yourself to bury emotions or grieve in solitude.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode two, Myths of Grief.
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, everyone, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Krista St. Germain. And today I want to talk to you
0:40.7	about some of the myths of grief. These are things that just keep coming up in the life coaching
0:48.6	that I do with my widowed mom clients. Many of them, in fact, were myths that I also believed when my husband passed.
0:58.4	Unfortunately, as a culture, most of what we're taught about grief, which is very little, in fact,
1:06.8	that we're actually taught, but most of what we have learned about grief isn't accurate.
1:13.3	And it can cause us a lot of trouble.
1:16.3	It can be very problematic when we aren't prepared or when we are misinformed and we have a
1:22.1	significant loss like the loss of a partner, spouse, husband, and we're looking to receive support from those around us
1:31.1	who are also misinformed, then we end up both unprepared to be the griever and surrounded by people
1:40.2	who are unprepared to support us. So I'd like to talk about six of the most common
1:46.0	myths that I see and kind of write those wrongs that are out there. Before I do that, I'd also
1:52.8	like to talk about generally grief. So when I'm talking about grief in the context of this
1:59.7	podcast, I'm talking about the thoughts and
2:03.8	feelings, the normal natural response to loss. And in this case, death. Now, of course,
2:12.5	we grieve as humans for many different losses. But in the context of this podcast, we're
2:20.1	specifically talking about the loss of our husband, death of a partner. The most common and
2:29.1	prevalent myth that I hear and that I think I find the most frustrating and perhaps my biggest pet peeve
2:37.5	is the idea that there are five stages of grief that we should go through.
2:46.4	So the book on death and dying was written by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, and her work was
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