Life, Mastered with Molly Claire 221. Your Clients and Grief: An Interview with Krista St-Germain, Sharon Wirant, and Mikki Gardner [Rebroadcast]
While the holidays are often a season of joy and celebration, they can also bring a certain heaviness. Grief around the holidays can show up unexpectedly and in many different ways—sadness for the people who are no longer with us, or a sense of loss around relationships that have changed or things we wish were different. That’s why I’m bringing you this special rebroadcast episode about grief: to offer understanding for what you may be feeling and tools to help you navigate grief during the holiday season.
In this episode, I’m joined by Krista St-Germain, Mikki Gardner, and Sharon Wirant—three incredible women who each guide their clients through grief in different contexts. Grief is not limited to death alone, but also includes the loss of marriages, health, identity, expectations, and imagined futures. We explore how grief often shows up indirectly in coaching conversations, and why the ability to recognize and work with it is such a vital skill for any coach.
You’ll hear why grief may be present beneath the surface of your clients’ goals, resistance, or stuck patterns, and how the holistic approach of a master coach allows you to meet those moments with skill and care. This conversation is also an invitation to those of you here for your own personal growth to honor the grief you carry, to make space for it without fear, and to remember that grief does not need to hold you back or define what’s possible.
When we know how to support ourselves and others through every emotion and every season—including grief around the holidays—we create real transformation. I can’t wait for you to hear this incredible episode.
What you’ll learn:
- Why grief around the holidays often includes losses that haven’t happened yet
- How divorce grief shows up as mourning the death of a future you expected to have
- Why mindset work alone can unintentionally work against clients experiencing grief
- How grief and suppressed emotion can directly impact the body and energy levels
- What a holistic master coach does differently when grief shows up as resistance
You can read the full show notes here.
About Krista St-Germain
Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom podcast. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her unfurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too.
Website: www.coachingwithkrista.com
Podcast: www.coachingwithkrista.com/podcast
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lifecoachkrista
Facebook: www.facebook.com/coachingwithkrista
About Sharon Wirant, MA
Sharon Wirant, MA is a chronic fatigue coach, entrepreneur, best-selling author of the book, Tired Yet Wired: Breaking Your Chronic Fatigue Cycle, and a coach within Molly Claire's Masterful Coach Community. No stranger herself to living with chronic fatigue and illness induced by burnout, Sharon loves to empower women to reclaim their energy to thrive in life, business, and play. By applying tools supported by brain science and neuroplasticity research, she helps others unleash their potential to heal just like she did.
Website: www.sharonwirant.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/sharonwirantcoaching
Facebook: facebook.com/sharonwirantcoaching
Book: getbook.at/TiredYetWired
About Mikki Gardner
Mikki Gardner is a certified life coach through the Life Coach School, is trained in the Conscious Parenting Method as well as Applied Positive Psychology, and is the host of the Co-Parenting with Confidence podcast. Mikki helps women sort out the overwhelm, confusion, fear, and self-doubt they feel after divorce to become strong, effective, loving parents. She has 1 son, 2 bonus sons, a dog / furry soulmate and is part of a team of parents who include herself, her life partner, his ex-wife, her ex-husband, and his wife.
Website: www.mikkigardner.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mikkigardner
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Mikki-Gardner-Coaching
Podcast: www.mikkigardner.com/podcast
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