Divorce Doesn’t Have To Wreck You

We live in a society that labels divorce as an unspoken, deadly sin. Failure, mistakes, and heartache are the things that we allow to spur off from this word. But, until you have swum through the seas of divorce, you have no idea what can truly branch off from it.

You have two options: paddle your arms and kick your feet so that you learn to swim, or drown in divorce altogether. If you take that chance and allow yourself to learn and grow during this monumental change, you will come out the other end with a boatload of life skills and coping mechanisms that can transform other facets of your life.

If you choose to completely drown while going through the divorce, carrying every negative thought and feeling around like your life depends on it, you will do more harm than good. You will miss the opportunity to learn from old behaviors and how to sculpt yourself in a “bad mamma-jamma”.

 

Here’s a list of ten things that I am learning during this chapter of my life called “Divorce”: