Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast

In the turbulent waters of high-conflict divorce, finding your anchor is essential for staying afloat. In this episode of "The Power Tria," we dive deep into how valuing your values, honoring your habits, and breaking down your behaviors can be the lifebuoy you need during this challenging journey. Discover the profound impact of aligning your actions with your core values. Today's guest will disc...

Living in a toxic intimate relationship can feel like being caught in an emotional maze—depleting your energy, disorienting your sense of self, and clouding your judgment. The journey to disentangle from harmful behaviors and limiting beliefs, deeply ingrained in such relationships, often appears daunting, terrifying, and isolating. Today, I'm thrilled to have Stephanie on the show, a beacon of li...

Thoughts on Attitude, Gratitude and Intentionality as we Wrap Up 2023 If you're in any stage of divorce, it can feel especially lonely, unfair, tender, confronting…today I want to talk about the gift of Attitude and Gratitude! Charles Swindoll Quote: The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.  It is more important than the...

Married couples over 50 are the fastest growing segment of the population divorcing.  There are numerous unique challenges with Grey Divorce.  Your children are older, which means you may need boundaries around their opinions and your desire to lean on them emotionally or financially.   You most likely have more life behind you than you have ahead of you. This limits your ability to recoup funds l...

Most men and women who live in dysfunctional marriages are challenged to find the strength and courage to leave, navigate what may very well be a high conflict divorce and figure out how to reinvent themselves post divorce. Today's guest walks us through her journey of using the pain of childhood challenges and an oppressive marriage to fuel personal growth and a better next chapter. Kate was a mo...

Custody battles are typical in high conflict divorce. The problem is the fight is often between two disregulated parents who love their kids but put them in the middle, causing unnecessary pain and suffering. Today's episode is meant to spotlight the confusion, suffering and trauma your children experience in the process of you fighting for what is 'best for your kids'. There is a better way, one...

I have a very special guest today. She is a deeply respected colleague of mine, a fervent advocate for women and has dedicated her life to helping them get clear on who they are, what they want and if their marriage is enhancing or diminishing them and the life they desire. Should I mend or should I end is one of the most excruciating decision to make. Living in a high conflict marriage means you...

A Parent Coordinator (PC) helps mediate and resolve disputes between parents in high conflict divorces. A PC is often a vital support both during and post divorce. If you find it impossible to make joint decisions with your STBX and virtually every interaction turns into a struggle or a power play, this podcast is for you!! Parent Coordinators can be mental health experts, attorneys or mediators....

Today's powerful episode gives you the strategies and tools needed to communicate more effectively with your spouse's high conflict personality. You have been struggling with criticism, deflection, blaming and black and white thinking. You have doubted your own version of reality, lost your self esteem and tried time and again to reason with your spouse to no end. What you didn't know was that com...

While navigating divorce, fear of the unknown often drives us to replace our uncertainty with a catastrophic worst case scenario about our future. However, our greatest fears rarely come true. Today's session is designed to provide you with hope and encouragement as you hear one woman's journey from fear and overwhelm to a post divorce life that is very different from what she feared. Tune in as s...

We are looking at how to Reboot Your Mind and Heal Your Heart with a uniquely painless and rapid trauma recovery modality called Rapid Resolution Therapy (RTT). In this modality, the mind is cleared of negative beliefs, reorganized to see new possibilities, and stops regretting the past and dreading the future. Negative habits and painful emotions are replaced by positive feelings and actions. Fre...

Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. Love and divorce, what's the connect...

While forgiveness seems to be for the HCP, it is actually for you, the spouse. Forgiveness is not condoning, accepting, excusing or denying the abuse. Our guest takes us through a 4 phase process that helps you to uncover the impact of unforgiveness, examine the benefits of choosing forgiveness, begin the journey to forgive and the healing that journey invites and ultimately, how forgiveness, heal...

Whatever else life promises, it pretty much guarantees that we will face stormy times. The question is not IF, but HOW you traverse them and what your toolbox of skills and strategies includes. Even High Conflict Divorce - which is more like a tsunami - can be experienced with greater ease with the right, healthy set of tools. Today we're speaking with Lynne about a spiritual practice that has bee...

Entering the legal process of any divorce feels frightening and overwhelming. For those entering high conflict divorce, the fear and confusion is escalated due to years of living in a dysfunctional marriage and the complexities involved when divorcing a high conflict personality. There is often a greater need to be in the court system due to the power imbalance in the relationship, the lack of tra...

If you've found yourself avoiding conversations with your spouse after being blamed or attacked for insignificant events, accused of things you haven't even thought of doing, ignored, or had the topic changed before anything you said/asked was addressed, you are living with someone who uses "deflection" and the blaming and shaming that goes along with it to protect their fragile ego from having to...

In this enchanting episode, we unlock the secrets of using "magic words" to navigate interactions with narcissists. Join us as we explore the fascinating world of communication techniques that can help you get what you want from a narcissistic personality. Today's episode offers a unique and powerful approach to communicating with a narcissist that enables you to protect your interests without con...

When you have been living with addiction, alcoholism, and trauma, divorce is bound to feel and be high conflict. There have likely been many toxic episodes if not seasons. You may know your soon-to-be-ex needs help. So do you. Today we look at the journey from 'dis-ease' to wholistic health - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Our guest has journeyed from addiciton to recovery and...

Co-parenting in after the standard, 'garden variety' divorce can be difficult. When you add high conflict divorce where communicating, collaborating, showing respect, kindness and grace is often absent, co-parenting takes on a new level of complexity. Today my friend, Lesa Koski, and I explore those challenges and the solutions available for parents who are willing to always put the kids first…eve...

Today we are looking at an alternative to therapy that may sound quite new to many of you. We're exploring the use of psychedelic medicines, such as ketamine, MDMA, cannabis, and psilocybin (mushrooms), to engage the subconscious. When used in this therapeutic safe 'container', they express meaningful manifestations of your mind. The non-rational sensations, emotions, thoughts, and images that are...

It is natural to experience strong emotions such as grief, anger, resentment, fear, and anxiety during and after divorce. Resisting those painful feelings will not make them go away, it will make them grow and fester inside of you. Conversely, ongoing, repetitive thoughts that focus on blame, shame, past hurts and disappointments, and worries about the future will leave you feeling exhausted, stre...

If your marriage has felt chaotic and confusing and over the years you have become unhinged, shut down and felt a loss of self, you need to hear this podcast! A lightbulb goes on when you understand what narcissistic personality disorder looks and feels like. You have been gaslit, diminished and belittled for so long you have begun to believe their narrative about you and probably deeply dislike t...

When going through the divorce process, it is easy to be in an unconscious state of living regarding your well-being as you are focused on so many other things...at least until something happens and you are forced to address it. Our encouragement is to begin now and don't wait for the crisis. JBD Coach, Tammy Oswald, suggests living more consciously and focusing on wellness bringing awareness and...

Journeying into and through divorce has. at best, many moments of 'normal' anxiety. Then there are individuals who have an anxiety disorder or who are married to someone who does. What is the difference? What happens when your normal or disordered anxiety is triggers? And most important, what can be done to calm these triggered reactions. Today we take a look at how to manage normal and disordered...

With High Conflict Divorce comes significant challenges; legally, emotionally and financially. When wealth is added to this mix, the complexities can feel astronomical. These complexities can come in the form of financial control and withholding, complicated high risk or international investments, multiple real estate holdings, etc. Education is vital in these cases and today we have one of the be...