The Widowed Mom Podcast

A few years ago, I would never have been able to give myself the opportunity to receive good things. Maybe like me, you have lots of “shoulds” and rules about investing in your own pleasure.

Hear why it’s essential for us to learn to receive while grieving, the reasons you might find this challenging, and strategies you can try to increase your ability to receive in grief.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/207

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A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

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I have a unique vantage point as a coach. I get to see the entire transformation of my clients, and former Mom Goes On member Cindy’s was stark.

I watched Cindy go from the depths of despair to finding hope for her future. She’s sharing what her grief journey looks like, and how she challenged the tools inside Mom Goes On to get what she needed from the program.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/206

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

We have so many Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) in grief, and we can spiral downward in them very quickly. Whether it’s that you won’t ever be happy again, no one understands you, or you’re just not doing it right, we often don’t even see them as thoughts. We just believe them.

Hear why your grief ANTs matter, and how to begin acknowledging them for what they are.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/205

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

How often do you find yourself inclined to please other people? Valuing other people’s validation more than you trust your own inner wisdom is a miserable place to be.

To offer her wisdom on this topic and a process to stop people pleasing, I’m speaking to Master Certified coach and expert on people pleasing, Sara Bybee Fisk.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/204

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

So often, widows attribute anything good that they once felt to their person. Whether it’s your happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, or confidence, I get it because I did it too.

I offer in the most loving way possible, that it wasn’t them. It was always you.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/203

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

As widowed moms at different stages of grief and widowhood, we never have enough stories that show us we aren’t alone in our experience. I’m so grateful for people like my Mom Goes On client, Jess Peurakoski, who is willing to invest in herself and do hard, uncomfortable, and scary things.

Hear Jess’s widowhood journey, her experience of being in our community, and what her life looks like now as she continues to navigate her grief.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/202

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

Are there any secrets you’ve found out or uncovered after your person passed? You have unanswered questions, and perhaps you feel betrayed or lied to.

I assure you that you are not alone in this experience, and you have the choices available to you to feel empowered regardless of what you’ve found out.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/201

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

In the four years that I’ve created episodes every single week and coached the women I have in this time, I’ve learned a whole lot.

Hear the top 10 things I’ve learned in 200 episodes, and why these are great reminders to keep in mind no matter what you’re pursuing right now.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/200

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

Have you ever felt like you want to make progress or solve something in your life but it feels impossible?

The great news is, feeling stuck isn’t as difficult of a fix as it seems right now. Discover why you feel stuck and what you can do to get yourself unstuck.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/199

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026

It’s easy to hear how difficult and challenging it is to be a widow. It’s far less common that we get to hear stories of widows who have been through it and have come out the other side thriving.

My Mom Goes On client Cheri Metzler is one of those people, and she’s here to share her journey through widowhood and everything that’s on the horizon for her.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/198

Mentioned in this episode:

A Widow’s Guide to a Happier Holiday Season

Navigating the holidays after losing your loved one doesn't have to mean just gritting your teeth and surviving. Join Happier Holidays, a free 3-day online event for widows from November 10th through 12th, to learn practical tools for managing difficult emotions, releasing guilt, and taking control of your holiday season.

Happier Holidays 2026