Ep #55: How to Be Your Own Champion

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

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Join me on the podcast this week to discover how to be your own champion. I’m sharing how our ideas of perfection hold us back from being believing we are doing a great job, and 3 steps that you can take to become your own champion and show yourself some love and grace in every imperfect, human action you take.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/55

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, Episode 55, How to Be Your Own Champion.
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.
0:32.7	Hey there, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
0:39.6	So we're going to talk about how to be your own champion today. And let me tell you this morning, I was not being my own champion at all.
0:47.3	I was feeling really, really stressed. And I sat down to do my own coaching on it. I self coach regularly. It's something I also
0:57.4	teach all of my clients to do. But I was coaching myself and I was realizing, and I kind of knew
1:02.1	it last night when I went to bed, to be honest, but I just let myself go to bed anyway and kind of
1:07.6	tried to avoid it. But what I was realizing this morning is that even with all of this
1:12.2	knowledge and all of this coaching experience, I was still holding myself to an impeccably high
1:17.9	standard, right? Trying to be responsible for everyone's happiness, my children, my parents,
1:27.1	all the people in the world world and trying to plan a summer
1:30.8	that everyone wants in the middle of a pandemic and basically just trying to control so many
1:36.3	things that are outside of my control and really stressing myself out in the process.
1:41.0	And then not being kind to myself through all of it. And my chest, I was taking these
1:47.4	deep breath and just feeling so tight. And so I first decided to do a little tapping emotional
1:54.1	freedom technique. I talk about it on the podcast quite a bit, but I use it regularly. I teach my
1:58.2	clients how to do it. I use it with my children. I find it to be one of the
2:02.6	most amazing and helpful parts of myself coaching. And so I did some tapping and just allowed
2:09.1	myself to acknowledge all that I was thinking and all that I was feeling and kind of make space for it.
2:14.6	And I just let it all be okay and let it all be part of my experience.
2:18.9	And I opened up to it, which sounds weird, right? Who wants to open up to a tight chest? Who wants to
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