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

When you’re carrying the financial strain, parenting responsibilities, and losses of a divorce while your ex appears to carry on with life, “just focus on yourself” can feel painfully inadequate. Especially when the harm continues and the people you hoped would help don’t acknowledge what happened.

In this episode, I make room for the unfairness of divorce after betraya...

With the Cornell 7 case all over social media, so many women are wondering whether what happened to them counts, including what happened inside their marriage. This episode is for you.

I’m re-airing my conversation with marriage and family therapist Geoff Steurer about sexual consent in marriage. We talk about why marriage is never a blanket yes, how coercion shows up i...

Today I’m talking about indifference—the idea that if you feel nothing about your ex, you must be “healed.” I get why that sounds appealing after betrayal, trauma, and a life-saving divorce, but I don’t think indifference is a reliable measure of growth, especially when you’re still co-parenting and their choices keep impacting you and your kids. If you spiral when they start...

I’m excited to welcome licensed psychotherapist and author Terri Cole back to the podcast to talk about her upcoming book, Father Wound (out November 17th), building on our past conversation about Too Much and the high-functioning codependent.

Terri defines the “father wound” as a psychological and emotional injury from an absent, abusive, or emotionally unavailable fa...

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a few quick updates (no October live Q&A because I’ll be in Vancouver for training, the next Dating From Within workshop interest list is open for January, and how following/reviewing helps other women find this support) and then diving into a powerful healing metaphor I learned from functional medicine: autophagy. I talk about why it can f...