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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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This is the episode I wish I had when I was a new widow. As someone who knows what it’s like to be new to grief, and wanted to consume more information about it but simply didn’t have the capacity to, here is a list of a few things I wish I knew, from one widow to another, that I hope gives you resolve and hope.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 85. New widows start here. |
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 to the podcast. This might be the very first episode of this podcast that you've ever |
0:41.3 | listened to. Perhaps someone sent you here. Perhaps you just discovered the podcast and you saw the |
0:48.8 | title. But regardless, if your partner just died, from one widow to another, I send you all my love. |
0:58.0 | And I've recorded this episode with hopes that it will make these early days just a little easier. |
1:04.9 | Because when my husband Hugo died, I didn't know anyone my age who had lost their husband. |
1:13.3 | And what little I knew about grief was pretty inaccurate. So now, as someone who has walked the walk and studied grief in depth |
1:22.7 | and coached hundreds of widows, this is the podcast episode I wish I could have found as a new widow. So here we go. |
1:32.2 | First and foremost, you're going to be okay. You don't need to know how you're going to be okay, |
1:39.0 | but trust me, you are. Not only have I walked this walk myself, but I have worked with hundreds of |
1:46.9 | widows of all different ages, all different circumstances, husbands who died unexpectedly, |
1:54.0 | long-term health issues, husbands who died by suicide, widows with little kids, grown kids, |
2:04.2 | no kids, supportive families, not so supportive families, life insurance, no life insurance, you name it. And if all those women can do it, |
2:12.3 | you can do it. You don't have to know how yet, but I just want to assure you from one widow to another that |
2:19.4 | you are more resilient than you think, and you're going to get through this. |
2:24.8 | It's okay if it doesn't feel real yet. |
2:29.7 | That doesn't mean you're mentally unstable. |
2:31.8 | That doesn't mean you're in denial. |
2:33.6 | That doesn't mean you didn't love him That doesn't mean you're in denial. That doesn't mean you |
2:34.5 | didn't love him enough. You're not doing anything wrong no matter how you feel. And most widows I've |
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