Ep. 352. Divorce Recovery Isn't Just Healing or Understanding. It's Learning to Surrender.

About this episode

Dawn discusses the importance of surrender in the healing process after divorce, emphasizing that understanding alone is not enough for true change.

You've done the therapy. Listened to the podcasts. Read the books. So why are you still hurting? In this special episode, Dawn shares why understanding alone isn't always enough to create change—and why true healing sometimes asks us to lift our gaze beyond ourselves. As someone with a history of religious trauma, Dawn never expected prayer to become part of this podcast. But after years of healing, she discovered that there are moments when insight, effort, and self-awareness reach their lim...

People in this episode

Host: Dawn

Topics covered

• divorce recovery
• healing
• surrender
• self-awareness
• religious trauma

Keywords

• divorce
• grief
• healing
• self-awareness
• surrender
• religious trauma
• therapy

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