A Mantra To Cope With Sadness

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Dr. Laura gives Jessica a way to move forward after her painful divorce. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:23.4	Jessica, welcome to the program.
0:26.6	Good afternoon, Dr. Laura.
0:27.9	How are you today?
0:29.4	Good.
0:30.4	How can I help?
0:32.4	I'm hoping you can help me with some emotional detachment, then re-centering my moral compass.
0:40.1	Just to give you a little bit of background here, I was married in 2011 and divorced in
0:47.9	2022. I made the condoacision. Because, because I married a functioning alcoholic and his addiction got sincerely
0:58.7	worse and it started to change the overall health and financial outcome for my family.
1:08.5	Do you have kids?
1:09.9	So how many? How old are they now?
1:12.9	I have one son and he is 14 years old. And I have what's his relationship with his dad like?
1:22.1	It is awful. It's very, very awful. He is still a struggling alcoholic.
1:30.3	And since I divorced him in 2022,
1:34.3	spent some time in the ICU.
1:37.3	He had total kidney failure and suffered three many strokes
1:41.3	and laid on the ground for a day and a half. And I actually found him and called
1:45.8	911 and saved his life. So this is all about him being an alcoholic that has caused all these
1:52.8	other health issues? Got it. Correct. Correct. And I think that that's where my emotional attachment
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