About this episode

Olivia Howell offers a heartfelt check-in for those experiencing divorce, emphasizing that it's okay to not feel renewed in spring.

Spring has a way of being quietly cruel when you're in the middle of a divorce. The world turns bright and blooming and annoyingly beautiful, and you're still just trying to get through the week — maybe the day, maybe the hour. The flowers don't know your timeline. The Instagram farmers market hauls don't know you're rebuilding from the ground up. And somewhere in that gap between what the season looks like and what your life feels like, there's a pressure that settles in: the sense that you're supposed to feel renewed because the calendar says so, and if you don't, that's one more thing you're failing at. In this tender, honest solo episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell is here to say, loudly and clearly: you are not failing at spring. You are not failing at anything. Unlike the show's expert-driven episodes, this one is something different — a direct, from-the-heart check-in from Olivia herself, without a clinical framework or a listicle in sight. Just one woman who has been through it, speaking directly to another. Olivia opens with a truth that doesn't get said enough in the divorce recovery space: grief and transition don't bloom on schedule. The emotional weight of…

People in this episode

Host: Olivia Howell

Topics covered

• divorce
• emotional recovery
• spring
• grief
• self-acceptance

Keywords

• divorce
• spring
• grief
• emotional weight
• self-acceptance

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