Life After Divorce: Rebuilding Identity and Finding Yourself Again

About this episode

Dr. Deb Anderson shares her journey of loss and recovery after a long marriage ends in divorce.

When Your Whole Identity Changes: A Story of Loss and Recovery How long am I going to feel this way?" That's the first question everyone asks when grief turns their life inside out. Everyone told Dr. Deb Anderson a year. It wasn't a year. Ten years after an unexpected divorce following a 35-year marriage, Deb steps out of her usual co-host role to sit down with Dr. Christopher Villarreal and share the raw, honest truth about what happens when the life you built disappears and you have to figu...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Christopher Villarreal

Guest: Dr. Deb Anderson

Topics covered

• divorce
• identity
• grief
• recovery
• personal growth

Keywords

• divorce
• identity change
• grief
• recovery
• personal transformation

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