Podcast: Transforming from Financial Anxiety to Empowered Decision-Making After Loss with Emma Gray
Podcast: Transforming from Financial Anxiety to Empowered Decision-Making After Loss with Emma Gray
What if the money that shows up after loss doesn’t feel like security, but like a cruel reminder of what you’ve lost? How do you turn something that feels heavy and unwanted into a source of hope, stability, and even love?
In this episode of Financially Ever After Widowhood, Stacy sits down with Emma Gray – former probate attorney, military wife, widowed mother of two, and now grief coach and counselor. Emma shares her deeply personal story of navigating grief, identity, and finances after the loss of her husband, and how she ultimately reframed money not as a burden, but as his lasting legacy.
You’ll hear them discuss:
- How Emma, despite being a probate attorney, found herself completely unable to face the financial paperwork and money decisions in the months after her husband passed away
- The emotional shock of grief and the surprising ways it shows up physically in the body, from exhaustion to the feeling of a “broken heart”
- Emma’s identity crisis after leaving law, and the journey that led her from being a lawyer to building a new career as a counselor and grief coach
- Why putting your own needs first is not selfish, but actually the only way to show up fully for your children, family, and everyone who depends on you
- The powerful shift Emma experienced when she stopped seeing the insurance and pension payouts as a painful substitute for her husband, and instead began to view them as his legacy
- The importance of creating both financial and emotional safety, and how ignoring one often makes it impossible to feel secure in the other
- A touching story about how her late husband’s love continues to live on through four horses that have become a healing presence for Emma and her daughters
Resources
Emma Gray on the Web | LinkedIn | Instagram | Rainbow Hunting Facebook | Rainbow Hunting Community – Facebook Group I Email: emma@rainbowhunting.co.uk
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