Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, Episode 47, Why We Numb, and How to Stop, Part 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.

Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.

Hey there, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.

We're going to talk more about why we numb and how to stop today. We're going to get into part two. And this, quite frankly, is about the third time. I have recorded this little intro, but I'm not going to re-record it anymore. Whatever happens in the background is just going to be a window for you into my life, which probably like yours means right now that it's a weekday and my kids aren't at school. Well, actually, my kids are at school, but school is now in my house. And so there are kid noises in the house that aren't usually here when I'm recording the podcast. So sorry, not sorry. Listen, we're all in this together.

It's weird. I know. We've had school canceled in the state of Kansas since mid-March.

Our governor just said, hey, we're out, we're done when I kind of appreciated that because

it helps me plan.

I know for the rest of the country, it seems to kind of roll out just a little bit more

gradually.

But anyway, you might hear kids in the background.

That's just where we are.

All the more reasons that a lot of us are having feelings right now that we might want to numb and get away from. And so we're going to talk about all of that today. I also wanted to give you just a little bit of an update on my dating, the boyfriend, because I told you that I would. I'm much better about doing that in email.

So if you're following me on my email list, some of this you might already know. But there's nothing like a pandemic to add a really interesting element to dating. So I started dating in early February and was before really all of

this COVID-19 stuff blossomed. I don't know if that's really the word that is most accurately

describing what has happened, but we'll just go with it. So we started dating and going out on

what would be considered, you know, normal traditional dates, restaurants and public outings and

such. And then the world kind of shut down, which has been fascinating because it's limited the types of

things that we can do. And it's made us think much more creatively

about how we can date but it's also really sped up the speed at which we've been dating

so we went from normal life right with kids that have activities and vacations

planned and, you know, things that were already on our schedules to none of it. Right. His trip to go

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