Momma Drama and Trauma

There comes a quiet moment in healing when something inside you finally says, I cannot keep living this way. In this episode of Momma Drama & Trauma, I share what it really means to stop living for everyone else and finally begin living your life for you. We talk about the fear and freedom that come with choosing yourself, the quiet ways we lose ourselves over time and what it looks like to co...

This episode is a gentle, grounding reflection for anyone stepping into a new season feeling tender, tired or quietly hopeful. Turning 49 has given me clarity about what I no longer want to rush, prove or abandon in my life. In this episode, I share what living with intention has taught me about healing, self-worth and finally including yourself in your own care after betrayal, loss, divorce and l...

As a new year approaches, this episode offers a quieter, gentler way to step forward without the pressure of resolutions, self fixing or starting over. Instead of focusing on what needs to change on the outside, this conversation centers on intention, nervous system safety and choosing how you want to feel as you move into 2026. In this episode, I talk about why traditional resolutions often fail,...

The holidays can bring emotions to the surface in ways nothing else does. After betrayal, the season often feels heavier. Traditions change. Joy feels different. And memories live louder in the quiet moments. In this Truth Talk Thursday, I share an honest reflection on what it feels like when the holidays no longer feel the same after betrayal. This is not about fixing the pain or forcing gratitud...

There is something about the holidays that makes everything feel closer to the surface. The lights, the music, the memories. After divorce, the holidays do not just arrive. They land. And for many of us, they land heavy. In this episode, I talk honestly about why the holiday season can feel so different after betrayal and divorce. We explore changing family dynamics, grief that resurfaces this tim...

In this Truth Talk Thursday, I’m diving deeper into one of the hardest truths from July. Just because you start to feel steady again does not mean your kids are there yet. This episode is about watching your children carry emotional weight you would take from them in a heartbeat if you could. It’s about learning that love doesn’t always look like fixing or explaining, but instead looks like listen...

July was the month everything shifted. In this episode, I share what it felt like to watch my boys carry emotional weight no child should ever have to hold. While I had begun to find some steadiness after betrayal, July revealed that my kids were still processing their own grief, anger and confusion quietly and in their own time. We talk about the weight children carry after betrayal and divorce,...

June 2024 wasn’t loud. It wasn’t chaotic. It wasn’t filled with breakdowns or breakthroughs. It was quiet and in that quiet, everything became clearer. In this Truth Talk Thursday episode of Momma Drama & Trauma , I’m reflecting on the calm that comes after the storm — that strange, uncomfortable space where the chaos has passed, but peace hasn’t fully arrived yet. This episode is about: The q...

June 2024 wasn’t loud — it was the month everything got quiet enough for the truth to finally settle in. This episode is about presence, clarity and the painful but powerful lessons you learn when someone you once trusted stops showing up. I share what it felt like to walk into my sister-in-law’s father’s celebration of life with my boys and my mom by my side — while he chose to stay home. It was...

This Truth Talk Thursday dives into one of the most painful, life-changing realizations of my healing journey: You can’t fix what you didn’t break — and you can’t keep holding together a life someone else chose to shatter. May was the month everything collided: the kids’ hurt, his choices, the birthday posts, the financial blows, the weight of emotional labor I was still carrying alone. And in tha...

May was the month where everything seemed to hit at once — the pain, the truth, the pressure and the patterns I didn’t want to see but couldn’t ignore anymore. This episode takes you inside the month my divorce should have been finalized… but wasn’t. The month he backed out at the last minute. The month I realized he wasn’t trying to save anything, he was trying to wear me down. It’s also the mont...

Happy Thanksgiving, friends. 🧡🦃 Today’s Truth Talk Thursday is a special one — a heartfelt conversation about hope, healing, and navigating the holidays when your heart feels different than it used to. The holidays can be beautiful, but they can also be painful, complicated, emotional, and overwhelming. They bring up memories, expectations, and reminders of everything that has changed. If you’re...

Happy Thanksgiving Week, y’all. 🧡🦃 This special episode is a little different — and honestly, that feels right for a holiday that brings up so many emotions. Today, I wanted to share a moment of hope with you… the quiet kind that shows up even when life feels heavy or complicated or different than it used to be. For anyone navigating the holidays after heartbreak, betrayal, divorce, grief, or ma...

This week’s Truth Talk Thursday dives into the messy middle of April 2024—where letting go wasn’t just a choice, it was a battle. I’m talking about the behind-the-scenes reality of mediation, the emotional weight of trying to finalize a 22-year marriage, and the truth of what it means to finally stop fighting for someone who’s no longer fighting for you. We’ll talk about boundaries, growth, emotio...

In this raw and powerful episode, I open up about Month 9 after discovering the affair—April 2024. This was the month I took real steps toward building a new life. I signed up for real estate classes, went on my first date in over 25 years, and started visualizing a future without my husband in it. But it wasn’t all forward motion. Mediation brought on a deep emotional weight—dividing time with my...

This week’s Truth Talk Thursday is raw, real, and personal. I’m Jenny Kuemmel, host of Momma Drama & Trauma , and today I’m taking you behind the scenes of my March 2024 — a month of mediation, mayhem, and trying to hold everything together when I was breaking inside. I open up about what it felt like to sit across from the man who broke my heart, discuss parenting plans like we were business...

📌 Spotify Episode Description In this eighth month after discovering my husband’s affair, everything started to shift — emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. The conversations became shorter. The hope started to fade. And my walls started going up. I was still showing up for the boys, still trying to hold it together on the outside. But on the inside, I was falling apart — crying in silence, sp...

Clarity doesn’t always come quietly — sometimes, it arrives like a storm. This week, Jenny opens up about February 2024 — Month Seven after the end — the month she began to truly see everything for what it was. The month she stopped pouring into someone who no longer cared and started pouring back into herself. It wasn’t peaceful at first. It was painful. It was sitting through silent Super Bowl S...

February 2024 — Month Seven after the end. The month everything started to look a little clearer, even if it still hurt. In this episode, Jenny opens up about finding herself again after months of heartbreak, betrayal, and emotional exhaustion. February began with pain — a Super Bowl weekend that revealed how deeply things had changed within her family — but it slowly turned into a month of awaken...

January 2024 — The month I finally started to breathe again. After months of heartbreak and tears, this was when grief turned into release and survival started to feel like healing. It was the first time I could finally exhale without breaking. It was the month that took me from just surviving… to slowly healing. In this episode, I open up about: 💔 The letter I wrote to my husband and how it help...

January 2024 didn’t feel “new.” It felt like the stillness after a storm, the kind where the air still smells like rain. I wasn’t crying every day anymore, but the grief had settled deeper. In this episode, I read the letter I wrote to my husband—word for word—naming what broke, what I own, and what I’m learning to release. This is also the month Momma Drama & Trauma was born: late-night journ...

It’s been one year since my divorce and the truth is, healing doesn’t have a finish line. It’s layered, messy, and full of moments that pull you between what was and what’s becoming. In this Truth Talk Thursday , I open up about the quiet in-between, the strange space where you can mourn what you lost while being proud of who you’re becoming. I talk about the vivid dreams that still come, the ones...

One year ago, on October 22 of 2024, my divorce became official. In this very special episode, I’m pausing my story timeline to reflect on what life has looked like since that day — the peace I’ve found, the lessons I’ve learned, and the growth that’s come from letting go. I take you back to that moment in the Sold in the Lou office when I saw the word “finalized” appear on CaseNet — and I talk ab...

This week’s Truth Talk Thursday is all about those quiet, in, between moments — the ones that come after everything falls apart. I’m Jenny Kuemmel , host of Mama Drama & Trauma , and today we’re talking about what it really feels like to let go… to lose hope… and to slowly, painfully, begin learning to breathe again. This isn’t about quick fixes or pretending everything’s fine. It’s about surv...

Hey there, and welcome to Momma Drama & Trauma. In Episode 11, I open up about one of the hardest parts of my journey — that point where I was trying to let go, but still losing hope in the process. The moments where I could finally see that the life I had been clinging to wasn’t coming back, and I had to face the truth that things would never be the same again. This episode is about surrender...