The Young Widow Podcast

Ep #10: Secondary Losses in Widowhood

 
Episode 10: Secondary Losses in Widowhood
 
Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 10, Secondary Losses in Widowhood. I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on today. It is an off-cycle podcast but I opened up my Instagram for requests and have a lot of good topics to work through so wanted to start with those rather quickly!
 
This week, I am going to cover secondary losses in widowhood:
 
Secondary loss of relationships with friends and family
Secondary losses with jobs and communities
Secondary losses with your home – emotionally and physically
 
And then, we are going to tie ti all together with talking about the loss of a sense of security. This is a little longer of a podcast that I normally do, so just stick with me and I promise it will be worth it in validating your secondary losses.
 
So, let’s get started!

Ep #9: What to Do With Your Spouse's Things After Loss

Episode 9: What to Do With Your Spouse’s Things After Loss
 
Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 9, What to Do With Your Spouse’s Things After Loss. I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on today.
 
First, I want to apologize for being out the past couple of weeks . We traveled and then I went through a period where I lost my voice and it wasn't conducive for podcasting.  Unfortunately, I was forced to take a slight break, but I am back and I'm ready to chat.
 
Today I want to chat about:
What do you do with your husband's things after loss?
What do those emotions feel like?
What are your options to do with their things?
And then I want to give you some validation maybe in what I did was my husband's things, as well as some other widows that I work with in my coaching process.
 
So let's get started.

Ep #8: Traversing Mother's Day as a Widow

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 8, Traversing Mother’s Day as A Widow. I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on today. It is a rainy day here, which always makes me feel gloomy but let’s get started – there is a lot I want to cover today!
 
This week, I want to talk about traversing Mother’s Day as a widow and the emotions around that and how that may feel. I also want to try and validate a little with all of my followers so I want to do a small segment on traversing Mother’s Day as a widower and then as a widower who maybe doesn’t have children, but wanted them.
 
So let’s get started.

Ep #7: The Little Things No One Tells You Part II (Daily Life)

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 7, The Little Things No One Tells You (Part II: Daily Life).
I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join today. It may sound weird to say that – I am happy you could join for a talk about widowhood – but this is what I do and my intent is to reach as many widows as possible – so if you found my podcast, that actually does make me happy.
Last week we talked about the Little Things No One Talks Tells You About – like the Death Certificate. That was an emotional episode for me – yes 5 years into my grief and talking about different portions of it still activate triggers and emotions so I kept it short and wanted to separate it into two parts.
This week I want to talk about more things in daily life I didn’t know were going to be triggers or real aspects of grief simply because I didn’t know – and you may be feeling this way too.
 
Those things are going to be:
Household Tasks – like Grocery Shopping or doing the lawn
The Mail that Keeps on Coming

Ep #6: The Things No One Talks About: The Death Certificate

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 6, The Little Things No One Tells You (Part I The Death Certificate). I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on today. I know we haven’t chatted in about two weeks, but I was on vacation with my daughter and am getting caught up now!
 
Actually, the last time we spoke, we were going to talk about “The year of Firsts” but with my recent travel, it sparked a topic I wanted to talk about after we encountered some issues on travel. So this week we are going to focus on emotions and instances surrounding the Death Certificate.
 
What you are going to get out of this episode is:
-General information surrounding the Death Certificate
- Potential Needs for It
- Situations you may not even think of
- Emotions sparked from it, even years later

Ep #5: The Wedding Ring

Episode 5: The Wedding Ring
This week we are going to talk about “the Wedding Ring
What you are going to get out of this episode is:
What do you do? What’s right? Whats’ wrong? What do other people do? What did I do and all of the emotions surrounding the wedding ring.
If it seems like a weird topic then you may not be a widow because this is a pretty normal thought process we encounter. If you weren’t married but have an engagement ring, you may resonate with some of these feelings. And if you are a widow then you probably already know where I am going to go with this conversation.

Ep #4: The Widow Label

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for episode 4, The Widow Label. I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on this Wednesday!
 
This week we are going to talk about the label “widow” and what it means and how it feels form a personal perspective.
 
What you are going to get out of this episode is:
The origination
The societal view when using the word
How predominant it is today for the younger generation than in the past
We are going to get personal and talk about what it feels like to be called a widow
Discussion about why you shouldn’t let a label define you.

Ep #3: A View into Active Grieving

This week we are going to talk about the active grieving cycle, what it is, what it feels like, and even some different scenarios I have encountered along with other widows while active grieving.
 
What you are going to get out of this episode is:
A detailed insight into active grieving .
Validation in how you currently feel or did feel in active grieving.
The top three emotions I felt early in my active grieving phase
And then will include some general non-structured guidance and tips from one widow to another
It is going to be raw and emotional, but let's jump in!