End-of-Life University Ep. 537 Grief and the Widowed Mom with Krista St-Germain
Learn about grief support for widows who are also raising children as they navigate loss and bereavement.
My guest Krista St-Germain is a life coach, post-traumatic growth and grief expert, widowed mom, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. She coaches and teaches other widows to love life again and shares with us in this conversation what she has learned. She and her work have been featured in Psychology Today, Medium, Thrive Global, Bustle, Psych Central, and Parents Magazine. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- The challenges of grieving while raising children
- How our limited knowledge of grief makes it more difficult to navigate
- Coping with unexpected effects of grief
- Myths about what is “normal” in grief
- What Krista wishes she had known about grief
- The dual-process model of grief
- The importance of community in navigating grief
- How just hearing someone else talk about their grief is helpful
- Post-traumatic growth and grief
- Understanding secondary losses and grief
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- Krista’s podcast The Widowed Mom
- A Year of Reading Dangerously reading group
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- Latest post on Substack: Grief on the Third Path
- What Really Matters Podcast
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