Amanda Kloots Shares Tip For Surviving Holiday Season Struggles

Amanda Kloots is giving out some good advice!

The past years have been quite hard for the star, from losing her husband of three years, Nick Cordero, to COVID-19-related complications in 2020 to having to raise their son Elvis Eduardo alone as a single mother. With the holiday season around, those who have lost loved ones will feel their absence more than ever, spurring the mother-of-one to help her followers navigate their feelings.

The television personality knows what she is talking about because she had to find ways to channel grief, like through dance which she did as a competitor on the 30th season of "Dancing with the Stars." 

"If you are struggling, especially during the holiday season, one of the things that saved me and continues to save me is exercise," the actress started the message, as she added instructions to "Blast good music, move your body and get OUT OF YOUR HEAD!"

The 40-year-old noted that she smiled for a whole hour dancing on a bike while admitting that although she does not wake up in good spirits every day, she made sure to do things that made her happy. The star noted that she did this to help remind her that "life is meant to be lived, enjoyed, and celebrated."  

This is not the first time she has advised her followers on coping; earlier, she did so by holding a Q&A session on Instagram and answered questions about the different things she had going on. The Blast shared that Kloots fielded questions about her children's book and other things before touching on a sensitive topic centered around grief.

She responded to a user who asked if grief would get easier with time, saying that it would not and that, instead, it would get harder. She stated that it was something that one would have to learn to live with by fighting every day to keep going, smiling, and being strong. 

The talk show host recalled a bittersweet moment with her late husband when asked what part of her life she would relive. She picked her honeymoon in South Africa, which she described as perfect. 

Finally, the onslaught of emotions ended with the last question – how one should support someone who lost a partner. She responded by starting the lengthy message by noting that the first thing to do was realize that people handle grief differently to avoid judging their way of grieving. 

Kloots stated that because of the pain, the person was usually unaware of their actions but just trying to make sense of their new reality, an action she compared to "an astronaut in space looking down at earth and feeling cut off from everyone else."

The social media personality declared that there was no set guide to follow and quoted "Steve Leder's - Be your authentic self," while adding that people suffering from a loss just needed normalcy to hang on to. She concluded by emphasizing the importance of just being oneself and available. 

While being happy and taking pride in being a mother, it does not remove from the fact that it is sometimes tasking and hard. In August, The Blast reported that she described trying to balance it all as an emotional rollercoaster. 

"The Talk" co-host admitted in an Instagram post that having to leave her son every day was beginning to get harder because he had gotten older and now understood when she had to go out. The TV star, dressed in a white two-piece ensemble, pecked the 3-year-old, who wore a beige shirt and white shorts, on the lips as they stood near the ocean on the beach.

"The work/life balance as a working mother is so hard. I love work, and I love my son. It's an emotional rollercoaster that I don't think you can fully understand until you do," Kloots further explained.

She added how blessed she was to have an ample amount of people ready to assist her every day and could not bear to see it any other way. She ended her post by thanking her special tribe and mentioning the type of sea animals they could see at the beach.