Category: Divorce and trauma

  • Month Three After Divorce: When Your Mind Won’t Stop Replaying Everything

    Month Three After Divorce: When Your Mind Won’t Stop Replaying Everything

    Part 3 of the Divorce Recovery Roadmap Series ☕ Take a Deep Breath Before You Begin If you’ve made it to Month Three… First, I want you to know how proud I am of you. You may not feel strong. You may not even feel like you’re making progress. But you’ve continued putting one foot…

  • Month Two After Divorce: Why It Suddenly Feels Even Harder

    Month Two After Divorce: Why It Suddenly Feels Even Harder

    Part 2 of the Divorce Recovery Roadmap Series ☕ Take a Deep Breath Before You Begin If you’re reading this during your second month after divorce, you may be wondering if something is wrong with you. Maybe you expected to feel a little stronger by now. Maybe you thought the hardest part was behind you.…

  • Divorce: A Letter to the Woman Who Forgot What She’s Worth

    Divorce: A Letter to the Woman Who Forgot What She’s Worth

    Healing after divorce can leave you questioning your worth. Read this personal letter for hope, encouragement, and divorce help as you rebuild confidence while surviving divorce.

  • Loving Yourself After Divorce  (And Why How You Do It Matters)

    Loving Yourself After Divorce  (And Why How You Do It Matters)

    After divorce, almost everyone tells you the same thing: “Do something for yourself.” “Treat yourself.” “Focus on you now.” Your therapist might say it. Your friends say it. Your family says it and  they aren’t wrong. But here’s what no one really explains…Loving yourself after divorce isn’t about escaping pain. It’s about rebuilding your life…

  • Journaling Helped Save Me After Divorce

    Journaling Helped Save Me After Divorce

    There was a season after my divorce where I felt like I was trying so hard to move forward… but everything inside me felt stuck. Not because I didn’t want to heal. Not because I wasn’t trying. But because emotionally… it felt like I was walking through quicksand. You know that feeling? You’re doing the…

  • Life After Divorce for Single Moms: A Letter 13 Years Later

    Life After Divorce for Single Moms: A Letter 13 Years Later

    This time of year has a way of slowing us down. As one year closes and another approaches, many of us find ourselves reflecting—on what we survived, what we lost, and what we quietly hope might still be possible. I’m sitting by the glow of my Christmas tree, the TV softly lit in the background,…

  • Healing from Divorce: Understanding Your Loneliness

    Healing from Divorce: Understanding Your Loneliness

    There’s a loneliness after divorce that feels different from anything you expect. It sneaks up on you in the quiet moments—the ones you used to fill with caring for someone who rarely cared back. And suddenly the silence isn’t peaceful… it’s loud. It’s heavy. It’s the kind of quiet that makes you feel like you’re…

  • Navigating the 6 Months After Divorce: Essential Insights

    Navigating the 6 Months After Divorce: Essential Insights

    The first six months after divorce are a strange mix of heartbreak, shock, survival mode, and searching for a “new normal” you never asked for. When I went through my own divorce, I assumed time alone would eventually make me feel better. It didn’t and that was confusing… because I thought time was supposed to…

  • Post-Traumatic Growth After Divorce: How the Hardest Thing You’ve Lived Through Can Become the Beginning of a Beautiful New You

    Post-Traumatic Growth After Divorce: How the Hardest Thing You’ve Lived Through Can Become the Beginning of a Beautiful New You

    There’s a moment after divorce — usually when the papers are signed, the dust settles, and the world gets quiet again — when a woman suddenly feels the weight of everything she’s been carrying. Not just the heartbreak. Not just the betrayal. But the fear… the confusion… the identity shift… the silence. “I should be…