UFYB 288: Grief, Patriarchy, & Post-Traumatic Growth: An Interview with Krista St-Germain
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all experienced loss and grief at some point in our lives. And while we may hear that there’s a set number of steps to go through or a timeline to follow, grief doesn’t really ever end. But, you do get to decide who you want to be after the loss. I’m joined by Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Coach and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, this week on the podcast as we discuss how the socialization of women in our society affects the way that we grieve, what post-traumatic growth is (and how not to use it against yourself), and how you can get over the grief plateau and learn to be truly happy again.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism |
| 0:13.8 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:28.1 | Hello my chickens. Today's guest is I was almost like part of almost the founding story of |
| 0:34.2 | Unfuck Your Brain. If you have were a client of mine back when I used to do a small group |
| 0:38.8 | program called Unfuck Your Brain, then you know all about Christa St. Germain. I met Christa |
| 0:45.6 | when she was my assistant instructor when I was training coaches for the life coach school |
| 0:51.1 | at one of their in-person trainings. When was that like 2018? No, before that. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, 2018. I think 2018 was my last year that I just won one coaching maybe. I don't know. |
| 1:02.7 | I just weren't in time more. We met a while ago. Maybe 2017. It's been a while. Who can say? And |
| 1:09.0 | then I was like, oh, you are good at this and smart. Now you're mine. And then I... And then you |
| 1:15.6 | petted me. I petted her. We both stood up for the Yoda dresses. And so then I hired her. |
| 1:21.6 | And she was a baby coach. And she worked in my Unfuck Your Brain program. And she would work with |
| 1:26.9 | people on their first month when they came in. And that meant that I got to spend like 18 months |
| 1:31.3 | of my life having people say to me, you know, this program has been nice and all. But like, |
| 1:35.5 | Christa told me that your thoughts cause your feelings. And that just like blew my mind. And I |
| 1:40.7 | would have to be like, oh yeah, that Christa, she really... She knows some good shit. She knows |
| 1:45.8 | some good secret stuff that I never told you. It's just like when you're, you know, it's like your |
| 1:50.4 | kids have to hear something from somebody else. They can't hear it from you. Yeah, totally. |
| 1:54.5 | Anyway, many amazing people had Christa's their coach in my program. But she was destined for |
| 1:59.5 | bigger and better things. She had to go off and do her own incredible work. So she's gonna tell us |
| 2:04.3 | all about that. Tell us who you coach and what your work is and what do I need to know about you. |
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