246. The Self-Trust One ft. Stacey Sherrell of Detangling Divorce
Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast
Ali Jackson
3.9 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Therapist and creator of Detangling Divorce, Stacey Sherrell, joins Ali to talk about the role of self-trust in finding a strong partnership, her own path to divorce, and how couples can set themselves up for success long before a crisis. Topics also include: respect as a non-negotiable and how to spot corrosive conflict, the invisible mental load, when to start couples therapy, the questions to ask yourself before having kids, and talking money with your partner.
In Updates, Ali is recovering from food poisoning and reflecting on feeling safe to be triggered in a relationship (a very timely reflection with this week’s guest!).
Where to find Stacey: On Instagram @detanglingdivorce and at www.detanglingdivorce.com.
Timestamps: Stacey joins us at around minute 17.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're in a relationship, ask yourself, would you be friends with your partner if you weren't romantically involved? And two, if you had never been romantically involved, would you set them up with one of your friends? Like, would you recommend them to a friend? Like, they're not your ex in this situation, right? Like, not a friend dating your ex situation. But like, would you recommend them? Would you be like, oh, that guy, friend of mine, he's great. If not, what are we doing? |
| 0:21.9 | What are we doing? |
| 0:22.8 | I know. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, that's the, what's the one like when kids are involved too? |
| 0:27.5 | It's like, would you want your kid to date this person? |
| 0:29.9 | What advice would you give your kid if they were in this relationship? Hello, welcome to their episode of Finding Mr. Hyde the podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm your host, Allie Jackson, and I am bringing you my positive and practical approach to dating relationships and just a whole lot about life based on my personal experience. This week |
| 0:55.8 | might be my favorite guest episode. I don't know, maybe ever. It's definitely in recent memory. |
| 1:03.1 | This interview is incredible. It is with Stacey Cheryl. She is now the creator behind an account |
| 1:10.4 | called Detangling Divorce. I mentioned to her a couple |
| 1:12.5 | weeks ago in my media mentions as somebody that I was going to be interviewing coming up. |
| 1:18.0 | She was part of the duo behind decoding couples, which was an account that I followed |
| 1:22.3 | religiously. They gave amazing couples advice. They were both couples therapists, relationship |
| 1:27.3 | therapists. |
| 1:28.6 | And now Stacey has this account detangling divorce that talks all about her personal |
| 1:34.5 | experience with divorce and co-parenting and just like very practical advice that is applicable, |
| 1:46.8 | even if you are not even married, like let alone, obviously it's very applicable if you were going through divorce and she offers a lot |
| 1:51.0 | of resources and support for people going through that or people who are in the what she |
| 1:55.5 | calls stay or go mentality of kind of deciding whether that's the road for you. |
| 1:59.8 | But I also find her content so |
| 2:02.0 | helpful as somebody who is nowhere near being in any of those stages, just in the way that she |
| 2:08.5 | talks about the things that she wished that she noticed sooner or the things that she wished |
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