The Young Widow Podcast

  Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast. I'm Britany, your host, and I'm happy you could join today for episode 26: Why We Keep Everything.  So I just came off of a conference weekend where I was speaking in Houston and this question came up by somebody that was attending the conference and it was in a different workshop than I was hosting. And I jotted down in my notebook that I wanted to do a p...

 Hi, Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast. I'm Britany, your host, and thanks for joining today for Episode 25: When Grief Took My Appetite. All right, so this one's going to be a little bit more of a harder one to record. You know, I hesitated to even sit down and record this one in a longer version. If you've been on my Instagram, I did a shorter reel of this, but there was so much feedback on it...

So, we all get to this place in grief..sometimes more than once..where everything just starts feeling… stuck. It’s like, Is this life now? Is this all there is? Because every day looks exactly the same. You wake up, do the things you have to do, go to bed, wake up, repeat. And at some point, you realize you’re not even living… you’re just existing. That’s what I call grief-induced Groundhog’s Day....

Hi there, and welcome to The Young Widow Podcast. I’m Britany, your host, and as always, I’m so grateful you’re here with me. This week has been a really emotional one for me. It marks five years since my husband passed, and my brain seems to be stuck on that number — five. Five years. It feels like it should be a lifetime, but at the same time, it feels like I lost him yesterday. I’ve caught myse...

Hi, and welcome back to the Young Widow Podcast. I’m Britany, your host, and today we’re diving into something that I know many of you have been thinking about—or dreading—as the year comes to a close: the grief of a new year.   Today we are going to talk about the difference between Christmas Grief and New Years Grief, what is happening in our brain and why it feels different emotionally, and the...

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast for Episode 21: Finding Your Voice. I'm Britany, your host and I'm happy that you could join today. I want to dive into a big challenge that many of us face in grief and is really important with the holidays coming. It's important that we talk about it now and we get it out there and it's finding our voice and advocating for ourselves. When we lose someone it's e...

Hi, Welcome to the young widow podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 20: Holiday Anxiety in Grief.   I am Britany your host and happy you could join today. Today I want to talk through Holiday anxiety – and why it is only October? It is so very normal in grief to experience anxiety – especially the first and second year WEEKS ahead of the actual holidays itself. So today we are go...

Hi, Welcome to the young widow podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 19: Working Through Regrets.   I am Britany, your host and I am happy you could join me today. Second podcast rolling out this week, finally getting back into my groove and lets not jinx it!   So today, I want to talk about Working Through Regrets.   What regrets do we have? Why do we have them? How do they affec...

Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 18: Letting Go of the Perception of Widowhood. I'm Britany, your host and happy you could join today. Life has been crazy and has had me thinking a lot about my early days of grief. Why did I act the way I did? Why were my thoughts what they were? How did my perceptions and thoughts drive my actions and alter my...

Thanks for joining for Episode 17! Today we are going to talk about duality in grief and cover quite a few thins:   What is duality? How does our brain respond to it? What does it feel like and how do we accept it? What habits can we put in place to break through the grief plateau and accept duality? So let's jump in!

Welcome to Episode 16! This is a slightly different style as I am going to talk through a topic and explain to you how you implement these processes into your daily life with grief - to help you move forward through a grief plateau or active grieving. Today we are going to talk about: What is witnessing your grief? Like what does that statement really mean? How do you witness your grief? What is t...

 Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 15: the Fog of Widowhood.   Today, I want to talk about the fog of widowhood.  You know, when you go through loss, you can't remember old memories or you forget simple things in your daily life. I want to normalize those and validate it for you.  So today we're going to talk about what is the fog of widowhood an...

Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 14: Acceptance vs Agreeance and Early Grief Healing   I'm Britany, your host, and I'm happy you could join today. There has been a lot of confusion on my Instagram page and I think this topic warrants a deeper discussion. This topic is focused on early and active grieving, again my niche is the first few years in...

Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 13: The Loss of Physical Intimacy in Widowhood   I'm Britany, your host, and I'm happy you could join today. This is a topic that was requested on Instagram. I'm always happy to do those topics. This is going to be a very intimate and personal topic, and I'm going to do the best to give you the advice that I can....

Episode 12: The Birthdays Without Them    Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining me today for Episode 12: The Birthdays Without Them.   I'm Britany, your host, and I'm happy you could join today. There are a lot of escalating emotions this week with Father's Day on the horizon, but this is a topic that I wanted to cover because it was requested on Instagram and so I'm hap...

Welcome to the Young Widow Podcast and thank you for joining today for Episode 11, Insights into Solo-Parenting.   I’m Britany, your host and am happy you could join on today. This is my second podcast this week so it has been a busy week! This has been a requested topic and I previously didn’t cover it because it is a little daunting, There is so much to talk about around solo-parenting. It is go...

  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...

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 was...

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...

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 actu...

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 o...

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 we...

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...

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...

In this episode, we're going to discuss the myth around the Five Stages of Grief. What you're going to get out of this episode is: - An understanding of the Five Stages of Grief and why a lot of coaches and therapists disagree with it today, when they're helping others along their grief journey. - We're going to talk about the grieving phases. - We're going to identify how you can figure out which...