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Self-Helpless

Rethinking the 5 Stages of Grief with Krista St-Germain

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Delanie Fischer and Kelsey Cook are joined by Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, mom, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. Krista opens up about the loss of her husband, the range of grief she’s experienced since, and the simple shifts that can help us process and heal. She also shares why we need to rethink the 5 stages of grief, what she dislikes about some mainstream concepts about the grieving process, and how to let go of guilt around experiencing joy after loss.

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0:00.0

I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self-careless so don't tell me twice that lately

0:10.3

I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said

0:18.3

maybe I'm self-helpless maybe I'm self-help. helpless. Maybe we're self helpless.

0:25.0

Maybe I'm self helpless.

0:27.0

Maybe I'm self helpless.

0:31.0

Maybe we are all self helpless.

0:37.0

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the self helpless podcast.

0:40.0

I'm Kelsey Cook.

0:41.0

I'm Delaney Fisher. And today we are doing an episode all about

0:45.9

grief and we are joined by such an amazing guest we have on Krista St. Germain.

0:51.2

She is a master certified life coach post traumatic growth and grief

0:56.7

expert widow mom and host of the Widowed mom podcast. She's been featured all over psychology today, medium, thrive global, and oh man if I sound

1:11.8

a somber it's because we just finished interviewing her and it's just I think one of the more powerful episodes we've ever done because she just she was so

1:28.1

vulnerable and willing to share what she's gone through and then just was incredibly helpful in how we can all

1:38.8

comfort ourselves through grief, maybe some of the misconceptions with the five stages of grief, just so many things I, you know, shared some stuff about my mom.

1:50.0

Yeah, she was so great and I really liked her simple tips because I feel like I think the tips have to be simple when you are grieving because your energy and motivation is so zapped

2:04.7

that you can really only focus on like one little thing at a time.

2:07.8

And so I really enjoyed her simplification

2:10.9

of things that you can kind of do or you know even the the

2:16.1

method that she shared just with like two things to consider to get categories

2:20.0

to consider was super helpful and yeah I got I got a lot a lot out of this episode and it's it's really it's interesting how yeah we all of us experience grief and we're all going to be experiencing at different types of grief throughout our

2:34.7

entire lives.

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