Ep #356: Going Through Grief with Krista St-Germain
The Stop Binge Eating Podcast
Kirstin Sarfde
4.8 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I'm talking with Krista St-Germain, a grief coach who coaches Widowed Moms.
After the sudden loss of her husband, she tried to escape her emotions with food and other emotional escapes. She also felt confused about what her process of grieving looked like and what she thought it was supposed to look like. Like with most of us, she was only familiar with the 5 Stages of Grief and that just wasn't something that resonated with her.
So now, she's teaching her clients a different way. She's helping them find their own, personal ways through grief and teaching them better ways to cope with emotions besides eating food and other escapes.
And today, she's going to be sharing that with you.
I'm so excited to have her on the podcast, sharing her wisdom and knowledge. I've worked with many people who have experienced grief for various reasons and learning how to go through it without binge eating is extremely valuable.
So, I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation with Krista!
Interested in working with me? Go to http://www.coachkir.com/group to get all the information you need!
Find show notes and more information at https://coachkir.com/356
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast with Kirsten Sarty, episode number 356. |
| 0:06.5 | Welcome to the Stop Binge Eating Podcast. It's time for you to end your food obsession and begin |
| 0:12.0 | feeling confident and in control around food. You are absolutely capable of eliminating |
| 0:17.6 | binge eating from your life. And I'm going to show you how by giving you simple tools and insights that you can apply in your own life and I'm going to show you how by giving you simple |
| 0:21.4 | tools and insights that you can apply in your own life. I'm your host, Kirsten Sarfdy. Now let's get to it. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, in today's episode, I'm talking about grief, but not by myself, with post-traumatic growth and grief expert, |
| 0:41.0 | Krista Saint-Germaine. You probably know what grief is, but what does post-traumatic growth mean? |
| 0:47.3 | Well, you'll find out later in the episode. So I wanted to have Krista on the podcast because |
| 0:52.9 | not only do a lot of people have a hard time going |
| 0:56.1 | through grief without overeating and binge eating because they have such a hard time dealing |
| 1:01.3 | with all the emotions, but also because I've seen so many of my group members experience loss |
| 1:08.0 | and grief as they've gone through my program. They've experienced grief due to |
| 1:13.0 | deaths of family members, including pets and friends and also breakups, divorces, job losses, |
| 1:20.6 | and so many other life events that have resulted in them experiencing grief. So I thought |
| 1:27.4 | this would be a really valuable topic for so many people to hear an expert speak on. |
| 1:33.2 | So we're going to talk about what happened to Krista that got her started in this work. |
| 1:39.1 | What is and isn't normal during grief? |
| 1:41.8 | What you can do to support yourself as you go through grief, |
| 1:45.4 | how you can support others who are going through grief, and so much more. I really enjoyed our |
| 1:52.7 | conversation so much and not just because it was so informative, but also because Krista and I |
| 1:58.2 | actually met in 2018 and haven't chatted in forever. So it was so good to |
| 2:05.1 | reconnect. And also, that's why you're going to hear me being so excited during the start of our |
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