The Empowered Divorce Podcast; Navigating Divorce After Betrayal Trauma and Abuse

Today I want to share some ideas with you that have to do with our children and our thoughts about them during divorce and post divorce that many of you might be feeling and experiencing. I remember early on In my journey I had realized that I've been trying really hard to keep my kids from feeling sadness about everything that was happening. I'd been hoping that they just didn't have any emotions...

Divorcing after betrayal adds a different twist if you will to the dynamics of a divorce. Most likely you are still navigating trust and learning to trust yourself again so boundaries after divorce are still going to start with you doing the work to trust YOU again, trusting your body. It’s not uncommon either to have not had full disclosure of what your partner did during the marriage and so ther...

Fear around personal finances are one of the top reasons women stay in an unhealthy destructive marriage. LOTS of fears right? Like, debilitating for some of you. So whether you are trying to figure out how you are going to do this on your own, or you are on your own now and feeling the pressure financially I got your back! I have invited my long time friend and financial nerd ( she knows I love h...

Your worth and value are not tied to your experience of divorce. Do you believe that? I didn't. I thought that when the marriage crumbled, when divorce was eminent, that I was now broken, less worthy of love and who would ever love me again now that im divorced? Today I share some thoughts to consider, and help you shift from a place of feeling worthless, not enough and powerless to a place of emp...

You are not alone. Women are experiencing extremely difficult divorces and often feel like they are the only ones going through hell. This series of Women Supporting Women is to help you see that you are not the only one, that you are not crazy and that you too can heal and move forward from a place of empowerment. Join me today as I interview Amy as she shares her journey from feeling trapped in...

"Even when it would seem to the outsiders looking in that we were ok, I was waiting for the ball to drop again. I was constantly in panic that I would find something out again around his addiction or affair,  this constant state of instability was my life. And because I was not aware of or had skills of emotional regulation, and I wasn't aware that I need to self care and focus on me and heal...

Did you grow up believing that if you got divorced it was bad, wrong, sinful and so it's just not an option? I did.  Today I talk about how important it is that we not make our experiences mean anything about our worth and value as a soul. That your experience with divorce, does not make you less, and certainly does not make you less in the eyes of God.  What if YOU get to decide how you want...

This bonus episode is the first webinar I hosted in my coaching career. It was so scary to share parts of my story In public for the first time! As a believer in Christ, I know that miracles are still possible in this day and the more I look for them not only in my past but have hope for them in my future, I will see them and so will you.  Want to hear more from Amie? Follow on instagram @ami...

This is a decision that only YOU can make, but I want to help you make that decision from a place of empowerment rather than fear. Helping you become more aware of the thoughts that your brain is offering you to keep you stuck. Today I offer a few thoughts to consider and journal to help YOU make this decision.  Want to hear more from Amie? Follow on instagram @amiewoolsey Here are some FREE resou...

I don't think I could even begin to count the number of fears that come with you are facing the decision of divorce. It's numberless. And so many of those are debilitating. You will never be able to make a decision when fear is driving the ship. YET, I do believe that fear won't always go away either and that doesn't mean you can't still move forward. Your brain is doing it&#39...

So many women are waiting for God to give them the green light to divorce. You might be doing all the things to fix yourself, to fix him, to save the marriage and still finding the marriage unhealthy and destructive. You perhaps believe that marriage is just hard and God expects you to just do "hard". What I see most often is that this "hard" is actually abuse and  you are deal...

You may be leaning towards divorce, you quite possibly have already called a lawyer, but then he starts to show a little change and now you are questioning yourself. But is this a pattern? Has there been real change consistently over a long enough period of time that you trust the change?  Join me today as I share some thoughts about what real change looks like and how to trust that change. To get...

You are not alone. Women are experiencing extremely difficult divorces and often feel like they are the only ones going through hell. This series of Women Supporting Women is to help you see that you are not the only one, that you are not crazy and that you too can heal and move forward from a place of empowerment.  Hear how Jill navigated an abusive marriage and went from feeling powerless and fe...

Your divorce decree is only step one in moving into a new life after divorce. The real divorce is the cutting of the emotional, mental and physical ties that still bind you to your ex-husband. This is the real work of divorce recovery: becoming an empowered woman possessed of confidence, self-esteem, and an enthusiasm for life and most important, a complete break from the emotional trauma and turm...

Divorce is hard enough to navigate, but add all the fears, worries and unknowns to the m ix and you are suffering m ore than necessary.  The Empowered Divorce Podcast is about helping women navigate divorce and post divorce life from a place of empowerment rather than feeling powerless. To help you heal and move forward. Divorcing because of betrayal trauma and or abuse is trickier that other...