The Widowed Mom Podcast

Grief is not a disorder, we were built to grieve. However, if at a certain point, it is persistently interfering with the quality of your life, you might be experiencing prolonged grief disorder.

Hear what prolonged grief disorder entails so you can understand if this describes your experience and identify the support you need.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/197

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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.

Happier Holidays 2026

Our brains only let data into our awareness that aligns with our thinking. If you think you’re incapable, if you’re looking for how someone in your life always screws something up, if you don't think of your kids in the highest regard, guess what you’ll find?

Expecting to see evidence that proves otherwise is like putting an orange in a juicer and anticipating something other than orange juice to come out. So, where are you limiting your experience of yourself and other people based on your thoughts? This is what we’re exploring today.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/196

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

If you’re in the habit of answering your urges, not doing so feels incredibly uncomfortable. The good news is you don’t need your urges to disappear for you to start pulling away from them, and this week, you’ll hear why, and what to do so your urges stop being a problem.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/195

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

Whether you’re excited about sex, or you’ve never had a great experience or made pleasure a priority for you, this is an opportunity to get to know yourself in a way you potentially never have before. Board-certified pediatric radiologist, trained sexual counselor, and Master Certified life coach, Dr. Sonia Wright is here to share her expert perspective on common concerns and questions we all have, so you can remove the shame from your experience and embrace your sexuality.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/194

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

Whether it’s a raise, getting better at saying no, starting a side hustle, or to date again, your goals matter. Hear how to keep your goals and dreams alive by deciding, instead of letting them die because you’re just trying.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/193

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

If you are experiencing reminders that take you back to your person’s passing, be it a CPR scene, an accident, the hospital, or anything else, tune in to hear how to be your own advocate and how to seek help without re-traumatizing yourself.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/192

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

Listen in this week as time management expert for women Megan Sumrell shows you how to find true peace and purpose, break out of overwhelm by building a system that helps you manage the mental madness of everything you’re juggling on a daily basis, and get in the driver’s seat of your calendar.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/191

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

What is it that you think is causing pressure in your life right now? Maybe you feel pressured to move to a different house or city, to date again, or go back to work. The great news is that no one and nothing outside of you can cause you to feel pressure. So, if you’re ready to start seeing yourself as the powerful creator of pressure when you feel it, listen in to hear why it’s not a problem, and how to start intentionally deciding your emotional experience of any given situation.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/190

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

When it comes to making big decisions, most of us are used to having our person to talk them through with and bounce ideas off of. So, if you’re now struggling with decision-making and experiencing fear, worry, or stress around big or small decisions, know that you are not alone and you don’t have to stay stuck in indecision drama. You can learn how to start making faster decisions with less anxiety, and I’m showing you how today.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/189

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

2023 is here, and it continues to fascinate me how scary it can sometimes feel to enter a blank slate where we’re creating from scratch and thinking about what we want in the next chapter of life. Our brains will offer us unconscious, unintentional fear-producing thoughts about the blank slate that is in front of us, but you don’t have to listen. Uncertainty will always be a part of our lives, so we have to learn to relate to it in ways that serve us, and you’re going to hear how on this episode.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/188

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