Ep #31: New Year’s Resolutions for Widows

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

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Most people, that I’m aware of at least, have real difficulty following through with their New Year’s resolutions. There’s no shame in that. However, I see the problem in three specific areas of the goal-setting process, so I want to share those with you today to give you the best chance of sticking to your resolutions in 2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, Episode 31, New Year's Resolutions for Widows.
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 another episode of the podcast.'s talk about new year's resolutions maybe you hate
0:39.9	them maybe you love them maybe you set them and you knock them out of the park maybe you set them
0:46.7	and you're tired of failing at them maybe you've sworn them off entirely since you've become a widow
0:52.2	i don't know but we're going to talk about it i'm going to tell you where we get it wrong and how we can get it right and all the things.
1:00.0	All right. So first, though, just a little update. I am so loving the mom goes on coaching program
1:08.2	that I know you've heard me talk about a gazillion times, but I just want to
1:11.0	brag for a second on the program and on the women in it. You guys, I read our Slack community
1:18.9	every day in the victories that they post and it just brings me to tears. To give you an example,
1:24.8	without sharing names, you know who you are, you know I'm proud of you.
1:29.6	Someone yesterday in the group wrote this, I feel like a miracle has just occurred. I started getting
1:35.1	the feeling this evening where I just wanted to eat, even though I've already eaten. I was aware of it
1:40.5	and thought, this is what drives me to binge. So I closed my eyes and just tried to open up to it.
1:47.7	Then I did a felt feeling, which is something that I teach all of my clients. Even as I write this,
1:52.8	I still feel anxious. But the normally overwhelming desire to eat, everything in the cabinet has
1:58.1	passed. This is so huge for me. For the first time in a long time,
2:02.3	I'm hopeful that I can break out of this cycle I've been in. Like, how good is that? If you have
2:09.0	struggled with trying to numb a feeling with food or a substance or shopping or any sort of
2:15.7	behavior, you know how it feels when you feel like you're doing
2:20.2	something against your own will. And that's what this client came to me to work on. And here she is
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