Welcome to the Widowed Mom Podcast, episode 86, negativity, bias, and grief.

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 to another episode of the podcast. You are listening to this in 2021. I am still in

2020 as I record it for you. So hopefully by the time your ears are listening to this podcast,

things are looking up. That's my hope. I'm just going to hold on to that for now.

It's been an interesting kind of whirlwind of a month. I haven't given an update lately, but just to kind of bring you up to speed with what's been going on for me. So my late husband Hugo's son, Lance, my stepson, was in town for about a week, which I'm so excited about. We haven't

seen Lance in two years because he's in the Marines and he's stationed far away. So to have him

here for an entire week was amazing. And he brought his girlfriend and we got to hang out with both of them. It's fascinating how much

my children have changed. My daughter is 17 and my son is 13. How much they have changed since we

last saw Lance and it was really fun to see them interact. My favorite moment was just watching my daughter

hug her brother and super cool. But also to see them interact. My favorite moment was just watching my daughter hug her brother. And super cool,

but also to see my son is pretty much taller than Lance now, which is just crazy. Because,

you know, he's always looked up to Lance and Lance has just always been his like bigger brother.

And so now to see him be taller than Lance is crazy and his voices dropped.

And anyway, so that was really fun. Also brought up some some feelings because while he was here,

you know, I had him go through some of his dad's stuff and kind of make some decisions about some

other things that he might want me to save for him or might

want to part with. And so, you know, even four and a half years later, still opportunities come up

that bring up the feelings. And that's okay. I wouldn't, honestly, I wouldn't want it any other way.

I wouldn't want it to just be super easy to go through this stuff. I like that it has memories and I like that

it reminds me of Hugo and I kind of like that it's not easy because what I make that mean is that

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