Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast

Karen McMahon

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Jun 4, 2021 • 24min

JBD Team Talk: Creating and Honoring Boundaries

We need boundaries to experience healthy loving relationships. Yet so many of us did not grow up in families that exhibited healthy boundaries. In fact, we may have experienced quite the opposite and not even understand what a boundary is. If your relationship is facing crisis, while the complexities are unique, you will almost always find an absence or breakdown of boundaries at the root of the problem. When we practice healthy boundaries we are not attempting to control anyone else. Rather we are setting healthy parameters for what is acceptable behavior for those we are in relationship with. If we are in a relationship that does not feel good and as a result we feel hurt, angry, insecure, disempowered, we need to own our feelings and choices. If we blame the person we are in relationship with and need them to change in order for us to feel better, we have given over our power. We then see ourselves imprisoned by their actions as if we don't have the key to become free of the situation. Someone does not make me feel or act a certain way. I must first own my feelings and actions before I can find my way to resolving the problem. Listen in today and learn how to create and honor boundaries. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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May 28, 2021 • 57min

Life After Divorce: The Genius in All Our Emotions - And How They Guide Us

The transition of divorce is ripe with surges of emotion and we often label the difficult ones as bad and to be avoided. Today's guest, Karla McLaren believes that emotions are possibly our greatest source of instinct, intelligence, and energy, that they are vital for thinking, healing, decision-making, learning, loving, and understanding others. Listen in as we discuss how each of our emotions is essential, and how they each bring us the skills, energy, and intelligence we need in each situation. Karla shares how our emotions contain genius, and how to access them and discern when two emotions piggyback each other, ie. "panxiety" panic & anxiety. We also chat about some of the most prevalent emotions experienced through divorce including anger, panic (different from fear), shame, anxiety, sadness, jealousy and grief. When we take the judgement out of even the hardest emotions, it gives us a new appreciation for their capacity to help heal and guide us. Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most "negative" emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the author of The Language of Emotions, The Art of Empathy, and Embracing Anxiety, among other titles. For more information on Karla... https://karlamclaren.com/ FREE Emotional Vocabulary List Contact Karla here Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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May 21, 2021 • 41min

JBD Team Talks: How Your Marriage Failed You

We often hear from our clients that they feel like a failure when their relationship is ending - that their divorce is somehow evidence that there is something wrong with them when it comes to having a long-lasting co-commited love relationship. Here's another way to look at it. What if we took the focus off of you, or what you think is wrong with you, and look objectively at the marriage? And how it failed YOU??? Learn about the Seven Components of Marriage that, if one or more break down, your marriage is bound to fail. Listen to this podcast - with pen and paper - to come away with a new understanding of what happened in your relationship, as seen though non-judgmental, but clear eyes. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call with Carrie Doubts https://calendly.com/carrie-journey-beyond-divorce/rapid-relief-call For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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May 19, 2021 • 37min

Voices Of Celebration: Broken Trust to Learning to Trust and Love Myself

Andrea had been married 5 years and thought her marriage was as ideal as one could hope for. Suddenly everything fell apart as her husband's two time affair rocked her world and left her broken and grief stricken. Andrea shares what happened next as the 'scales fell from her eyes' and she saw her marriage in a truer light and began to come to terms with her part in the dissolution of the marriage...her codependence and fear of abandonment. Andrea takes us on her journey from broken trust to trusting and loving herself in a way she never had before. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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May 14, 2021 • 48min

Life After Divorce: Heal Your Past - Manifest Your Future with Wendy Sterling

As you step into your life after divorce, how you think, feel and act will be based on the extent of the healing you have experienced. And your depth of healing will inform what you manifest in your new life chapter. Today we are invited into a uniquely powerful and special 'secret sauce' called ThetaHealing. ThetaHealing impacts you on 4 levels...your core, soul, history and genetics. The power of this healing is like none other I have ever heard of. It enables you to truly break the ties that bind you to your ex as well as generational chains both past and future and more...and if that isn't amazing enough, ThetaHealing provides instantaneous shifts. Today's conversation is filled with jaw dropping stories about the powerful healings and manifestations experienced through this process. Today's guest, Wendy Sterling, is a Divorce Coach, ThetaHealer, a global Divorce Recovery Specialist, speaker, author, podcast host and founder of The Divorce Rehab™. Wendy helps divorced women who are having trouble moving forward and tired of feeling stuck in pain, fear and anger to find confidence, self worth, joy and freedom. Wendy's vision is to change the stigma of divorce from one of shame to empowerment. Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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May 7, 2021 • 25min

JBD Team Talks: How to Handle Reactions to Your Divorce

Has anyone ever told you that marriage isn't perfect and you should try to stick it out? How about that you are ruining your children's lives if you go forward with the divorce? Are you no longer invited to certain gatherings or social events now that you are about to be or are single? Deciding who to tell, how to tell and when to tell people when entering divorce is difficult. Dealing with people's reactions can be confusing and overwhelming. It is important to remember that how people react to your divorce is about them and how you respond to those reactions is about you. This is a time to take good care of yourself and surround yourself with people whose energy and companionship buoy and comfort you and to limit, if not, avoid contact with people who project their fears and judgments onto you. Today Rachel and I talk about how to discern who the healthy friends and loved ones in your life are and the value and benefits of creating an AllStar Support team to help you get through this most challenging time. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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Apr 30, 2021 • 47min

Life after Divorce: Life By Design Not Default w Dr. Elizabeth Cohen

Welcome to the FIRST episode of Life After Divorce where we talk about LIFE BY DESIGN NOT DEFAULT. As you begin exploring who you are and who you want to be in this next chapter of life, we invite you to see this new chapter as an adventure, to get to know yourself, be kind and gentle with yourself and know that you part of the adventure will include uncertainty and fear. Most important to be intentional about the design you desire. Today's guest invites you to be aware of and embrace your needs and to begin with the little stuff so you build confidence to make the bigger decision. We explore how to truly get to know yourself and tune into your inner wisdom. And we celebrate the beauty and power of imagination and manifesting your next life's chapter. Today's guest is Dr. Elizabeth Cohen. She is a clinical psychologist and founder of Afterglow: The Light at the Other Side of Divorce, which is an online divorce course and membership. Elizabeth teaches women how to heal, grow and thrive after divorce no matter how difficult the process has been and offers a monthly membership program to provide 1:1 coaching, expert support from divorce professionals and an engaged community of like-minded people. Dr. Cohen received her PhD in clinical psychology from Boston University. She was the recipient of the prestigious American Psychological Foundation Research Award for her research on the emotional effects of 9/11. She has been featured on the Tamron Hall Show, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Women's Health, Huff Post, Thrive Global, Daily Beast and Good Housekeeping, contributes weekly to Psychology Today and hosts the Divorce Doctor podcast. Finally, Dr. Cohen's has published a book based on her Afterglow program entitled, Light at The Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You. Request a Free Jump Start Call at https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/jumpstart For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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Apr 23, 2021 • 38min

JBD Team Talks: Divorce IS a Hero's Journey

Going through a divorce, you're faced with uncertainty and loss every which way you turn. You can feel lost, without a sense of where you want to go or how you're going to get there. You want a roadmap. You want a guide. You want to get out of this strange land you find yourself in. While you may not realize it, you are on a hero's journey. This applies equally to men and to women. Listen to find out what can be possible for you as you embrace your hero within how to be the hero of your story instead of a helpless victim. Read the Blog: Divorce IS a Hero's Journey Request a Free Rapid Relief Call https://calendly.com/carrie-journey-beyond-divorce/rapid-relief-call For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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Apr 21, 2021 • 40min

Voices Of Celebration: My New Life Has Proven My Fear To Be A Liar

Cathy lived a life that from the outside appeared completely successful with a beautiful home and thriving family business. The reality behind the facade told a different story. Cathy shares her early confusion about why she was so unhappy given the facade, her journey to understand her unmet needs and how her values were out of alignment with the life she was living. She shares her fears and the uncomfortable journey to finding herself, standing in her truth and leaving her marriage. As with so many of our clients, Cathy's life after divorce was expansive and filled with possibility as she entered a new chapter of learning, love and laughter. She shares the contrast between her old and new life where 'less than 2% of her fears during divorce were realized.' Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com
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Apr 9, 2021 • 36min

JBD Team Talks: Divorcing Consciously - Creating a powerful intention

Divorce is a marathon. It impacts life emotionally, logistically, psychologically, economically, and physically. It also piles new responsibilities and challenges upon old. Without setting conscious intentions there is no North Star. You are adrift in a stormy sea without a rudder. Intentions become your rudder and consciously choosing the qualities you want to introduce into your process becomes the shore you are steering towards. As foreign as this way of thinking and responding may be at first, it is effective in changing your dynamic and bringing internal organization, an assemblance of order, and some calm to the chaos. The negative behaviors that emerge during divorce are byproducts of the feelings of rejection, resentment, betrayal, fear, the desire for revenge, jealousy, irrelevance, self doubt, and a number of other painful emotions and thought patterns. Although cultivated for years, many familiar from the households we grew up in, the feelings that lead to the negative behaviors arise automatically once the choice to divorce has been made regardless of who makes it. These feelings continue throughout the divorce process and through the first year or two post divorce...longer for those denying their feelings. The feelings are unavoidable. The behaviors that arise from the feelings are not unavoidable. Listen as Lisa and Karen walk you through how to divorce with intent and overcome negative behaviors that humans are conditioned with. Request a Free Rapid Relief Call at www.rapidreliefcall.com For more information on Journey Beyond Divorce visit: www.jbddivorcesupport.com

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