#205 Listener Episode Walking Away to Gain Peace with Kristin
Feb 20, 2024
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A listener shares her journey of walking away from a 17-year marriage, focusing on reclaiming identity, dealing with children during a divorce, and becoming unrecognizable in a relationship. The podcast also explores empowering women, navigating motherhood amidst tragedy, emotional turmoil of breakups, personal growth, and self-awareness.
Recognize when a relationship no longer serves you and prioritize self-care for inner peace.
Seek external perspectives and take charge of your life to break free from anxiety and cultivate personal growth.
Deep dives
Kristen’s Journey to Self-Discovery and Healing
Kristen shares her 17-year marriage experience and how she reached a point where she felt she was betraying herself by staying. Facing her mother's pancreatic cancer and tragic events, she reflects on how she realized the marriage was not serving her. Her health scare prompted her to walk away, seeking peace and nurturing in her life.
Recognizing Betrayal of Self and Making Life Changes
Kristen talks about realizing she was betraying herself in the relationship, feeling overwhelmed and unheeded despite expressing her needs. She reflects on the importance of fostering authentic and respectful relationships based on mutual understanding and support. Kristen emphasizes the significance of recognizing one's needs and moving forward to prioritize self-care and fulfillment.
Struggles of Overwhelming Responsibilities and Self-Discovery
Kristen discusses the overwhelming responsibilities she faced, managing her business, children, and health challenges while feeling unheard and exhausted. She shares the struggle of seeking help and making decisions to care for herself amidst mounting pressures and multiple life challenges. Kristen underscores the importance of addressing internal struggles and seeking support to navigate difficult life transitions.
Empowerment Through Sounding Boards and Positive Progress
Kristen shares the importance of seeking external perspectives and sounding boards to move forward and break free from cycles of anxiety and reflection. She highlights the value of making progress, even in small steps, and the necessity of taking charge of one's life to find happiness and fulfillment. Kristen encourages reflecting on past experiences while focusing on moving forward towards personal growth and positive changes.
Today's listener episode was such a moving interview for me. Kristin was married for 17 years and has two older children with her ex, and we talk about the internal journey she had to go through to be able to not only walk away from her ex husband but also totally break the hearts of her children and how she handled that journey. We talk about becoming unrecognizable in a relationship, how to gain your identity back, how to deal with children when going through a divorce and so much more. Krisin is truly an inspiration and I'm so lucky to have her on the show.
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