Nobody Talks About Divorce During Pregnancy. Dr. Gertrude Lyons Just Changed That.

About this episode

This episode explores the profound impact of realizing a relationship is not suitable for raising a child during pregnancy, featuring insights from Dr. Gertrude Lyons on transformation and motherhood.

Nobody tells you that pregnancy can be the moment everything becomes clear. Not the nursery colors or the baby name — but something far bigger, far more quietly devastating: the realization that the relationship you're in is not the one you want to raise a child inside of. In this profound episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell sits down with Dr. Gertrude Lyons — author, life coach, podcast host, retreat facilitator, and the powerhouse behind the book Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust — to explore one of the most taboo intersections in modern womanhood: divorce during pregnancy or in the postpartum period. Dr. Lyons has worked with women at every stage of this threshold and brings both clinical depth and soulful clarity to a conversation that has the potential to crack your heart open and set it free at the same time. What makes this episode so extraordinary is the reframe Dr. Lyons offers around what she calls "the double threshold" — the understanding that when you become a mother, you don't just birth a child. You birth a new version of yourself. Add divorce to that equation, and yes, the weight is immense. But Dr. Lyons makes a radical and deeply…

People in this episode

Host: Olivia Howell

Guest: Dr. Gertrude Lyons

Topics covered

• divorce
• pregnancy
• transformation
• motherhood
• relationships
• self-discovery

Keywords

• divorce
• pregnancy
• motherhood
• self-improvement
• transformation
• relationships
• emotional health

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust

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