Transitioning Through Divorce: Grieving the Loss of Marriage
Staying Empowered Through Divorce and Beyond: How to Move Into Your Next Chapter With Clarity, Confidence, and Power
You probably didn’t enter into the sacred contract of marriage thinking that it would one day be broken. But sometimes, for reasons that may or may not be within your control, divorce is the path you must take.
Whether your divorce feels like a battlefield or more amicable, and whether you’re blindsided or choose to separate intentionally, divorce can leave you feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, lost, grieving, and unsure of how to move forward.
You Can Survive, Revive, and Thrive Through Divorce
I’m Mary Joye, a licensed professional counselor and family court mediator, and my own divorce propelled me to both of these careers in midlife.
Divorce isn’t just breaking up — it’s a breaking down of your body, mind, and spirit.
Yet I know from professional, clinical, and personal experience that no matter how challenging the process of your divorce may be, you can learn to love your new life and emerge with more purpose and power than ever.
I created this 10-part course to make divorce a less painful process and to help you build your life back up again.
In this series of self-paced lessons, you’ll engage your body as well as your mind to move through divorce with greater personal empowerment: Techniques based in neuroscience help you recover more quickly, mindfully, and powerfully. Nervous-system support helps you shift your fight-flight-freeze stress responses. Cognitive behavioral therapy tools soothe negative thoughts and emotions. And illuminating meditations and powerful journaling exercises help you become better — not bitter — from divorce.
This course is divided into three phases to further your individualized healing journey:
#1: Survive: Honor the sacred grieving process needed for divorce, gain an understanding of the physiological reactivity of your fight-flight-freeze-collapse stress response, and learn how to self-regulate.
#2: Revive: Shift from being hyperfocused on your divorce to moving forward with clarity and confidence, and learn how reframing and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques can support your process.
#3: Thrive: Clear emotional and tangible baggage, release fears of loneliness and dating, and emerge happier, freer, and ready to love and live.
Divorce can be traumatic and chaotic, with intense feelings of anger, shame, grief, displacement, despondency, loneliness, devastation, and desperation for new love. But it doesn’t have to be all-consuming. You can get back into living and loving well — sooner than you think.
This course will help if you:
- Feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you and are looking for support in moving forward with confidence.
- Initiated divorce and are navigating the complex feelings that come from choosing to end a major relationship.
- Want tips and support for the legal and logistical side as well as the emotional and transformational side of divorce.
- Are in the middle of a contentious divorce and need to understand how to maintain dignity and agency throughout the process.
- Have recently completed a major separation and want to bring awareness to the process of beginning to date again.
- Are experiencing “divorce remorse” and want to better understand the transition you’ve just been through.
- Would like to shift out of overwhelm, anger, and grief and into greater calm, empowerment, and hope.
- Want to be the best version of yourself throughout and beyond the entire process of ending a marriage.
No matter what stage of a divorce you’re in, don’t put off living your best life. Every ending can be a beautiful new beginning.
