My Comeback Story: When Life Changes Everything

About this episode

Toni shares her personal story of navigating life changes after twenty-five years of marriage and the impact of mental illness on her family.

For years on the Start Your Comeback Podcast, Toni has interviewed guests about life transitions, unexpected change, and what it takes to move forward when life does not unfold the way we planned. In this deeply personal episode, she shares part of her own story. After twenty-five years of marriage, raising two sons, building a home, and living what looked like a steady life from the outside, everything shifted when mental illness entered her family in a way that changed daily life for years ...

People in this episode

Host: Toni Thrash

Topics covered

• life transitions
• mental illness
• personal story
• resilience
• family dynamics

Keywords

• comeback
• divorce
• empty nest
• loss
• mental health

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