Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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:
coachingwithkrista.com
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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"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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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:
coachingwithkrista.com
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
🍃 Subscribe to my email list: eepurl.com/ExfLL
🍂 Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/books-by-karen-wyatt-md and Indiebound:
7 Lessons for Living from the Dying : indiebound.org/book/9781786783110
The Journey from Ego to Soul: indiebound.org/book/9780982685563
🍃 Subscribe to this podcast on
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/end-of-life-university/id1033282990
Google: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXNzb25zZnJvbWR5aW5nLndvcmRwcmVzcy5jb20vZmVlZC8
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7bdr4odBlaaDy8NoJhcFsL
iHeart Radio: iheart.com/podcast/256-end-of-life-university-31099550
Stitcher Radio: stitcher.com/show/endoflife-university
🍂 Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past: eolupodcast.com/series
🍃 Join the team at my Patreon page patreon.com/eolu and get access to the EOLU mug: “Mind if we talk about death?” (only Patrons can purchase it). PLUS get our new bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, movie reviews from 2 Doctors and a Movie, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
🍂 Intro Music Credit:
"Bright Wish" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
