Ep #54: Navigating Father’s Day

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

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week I'm sharing why there is nothing you should be doing or feeling this Father’s Day, and how to create an environment that allows you and your children to process any emotion that comes up, whatever they might be. What we think about, we bring about, so trust me, if you believe you can make this day work for you, that is the first step in making it happen.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/54

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 54, navigating Father's Day.
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 back to another episode of the podcast. How you doing? Are you stressing about Father's Day?
0:41.8	I think a lot of you are very common, very normal. In fact, I decided to post in my widowed mom podcast
0:50.5	Facebook community just to kind of get a sense of what was on people's minds right now.
0:57.1	And that's what I want to address with this podcast today is just talk to you about
1:01.6	four things that I want you to consider, four things that if you do them, will absolutely
1:09.1	improve your experience of Father's Day. So before I do that, though,
1:14.4	I was browsing through my mom goes on coaching group. So that's my private small group of
1:22.3	widowed moms that I coach. And I was looking through our online community and I was reading through the victories section.
1:31.7	And that's where we're always posting victories and kind of training our brain to celebrate
1:36.1	even the littlest of things because what we focus on we get more of.
1:41.9	So we do a lot of celebrating what's going right. And I just
1:45.0	wanted to share this with you because this victory made me so happy. Now I'm not going to read
1:50.3	the names because I want to protect the privacy of my client, but she wrote, this weekend was one of
1:58.1	the best at home in a long time. My daughter and I had fun and truly
2:02.7	enjoyed each other's company. We went shopping for clothes yesterday. Normally this would have
2:07.8	resulted in screaming and a horrible weekend where we were at each other's throats constantly.
2:13.5	Because I'm in better control of my emotions, and she's also learning some of this, we were able
2:19.1	to listen to each other and compromise on what was appropriate, a difficult task for a legy
2:25.0	size 2, 14-year-old girl. And when she did melt down once, I gave her space, and she worked through it.
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