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When Time Isn’t Enough: How to Thrive Through Grief when the World Expects You to Keep Going featuring Krista St-Germain

In the wake of the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country, so many families and communities have been impacted by loss and grief. Whether you’ve experienced personal loss or you’ve joined in the collective heartbreak of watching the community suffer, we are all touched by grief.

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Before we dive into today’s conversation, I want to take a moment to acknowledge something heavy on many of our hearts. In the wake of the devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country, so many families and communities have been impacted, whether directly or indirectly. If you’ve experienced loss or are carrying the weight of watching others grieve, please know that you’re not alone. Our hearts are broken for the families impacted whose lives will never be the same.

The truth is, grief doesn’t only show up in moments like these. It’s part of being human. We grieve when we lose someone we love, yes… but also when a job ends, when a friendship fades, when life takes an unexpected turn. And yet, so many of us are trying to carry that weight while showing up for work, managing households, and checking off to-do lists.

That’s why I’m honored to introduce you to this week’s guest, Krista St-Germain. Krista is a Master Certified Life Coach and expert in grief and post-traumatic growth. Krista specializes in helping women move beyond what she calls the “grief plateau”—that space where we’re technically functioning, but life just feels… hollow.

Meet Krista St-Germain

Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, ranked in the top 1% of all podcasts. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too. Krista has been featured online and in print in Psychology Today, Psych Central, Bustle, Charlotte Parent, Medium and Parents Magazine and on select podcasts such as Grief 2 Growth, Seek The Joy, Life Check Yourself and You Need A Budget to name a few.

In today’s conversation with Krista, she shares…

• What grief really is (and why it’s more than just bereavement)
• How to recognize the grief plateau, and what to do if you’re stuck there
• A simple framework for healing that doesn’t focus on just waiting for time to heal
• How to support a loved one going through grief and loss

Whether your loss is recent or long ago, it’s tangible or more invisible, this conversation will help you put words to what you’re feeling. It will offer permission to grieve in your own way, and show you that healing doesn’t come from waiting for time to pass—it comes from how we care for ourselves as it does.

Resources Mentioned:

• Connect with Krista St-Germain on her website, Instagram, and Facebook
• Tune into The Widowed Mom Podcast
• Take Krista’s free course: How to Navigate Grief as a Widowed Mom
• Full Focus Planners
• Things App

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