Episode 181: From Heartbreak to Happiness with Sara Davison
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking about life after divorce - specifically what it can look like and how it can feel. Sara Davison is my special guest. During our conversation, she shares her story of divorce and how she helps women move on from heartbreak to a life of happiness post-divorce.
Sara is best known as 'The Divorce Coach' and is an award-winning authority on break-ups, divorce, and life empowerment. Following the launch of Sara's Breakup and Divorce Coach Practitioner Accreditation Programme in 2018, Sara has now founded The International Divorce Coach Centre Of Excellence which has a coaching community of 250 Divorce Coaches spanning 16 countries and five continents. She is a twice best-selling author, media commentator, and host of the #1 Heartbreak to Happiness Podcast.
Tune in to hear our empowering and uplifting conversation!
Show Highlights
- How do you get back up on your feet and move forward when you are still wrapped up in the whole process of divorce? (7:50)
- Turning the adversity of your divorce into your strength and superpower (8:19)
- Sara shares her story of divorce and the processing the shock and trauma of finding her spouse was having an affair and wanted a divorce (14:41)
- The opposing viewpoints of divorce: the abuser wants to annihilate you whereas you just want to break free and move on (24:00)
- How to move forward and take your power back - even in the midst of experiencing post-separation abuse (26:31)
- It takes one person or one generation to break toxicity or patterns of abuse - it is up to us to break it for our kids (38:35)
Learn more about Sara Davison:
Sara Davison, best known as 'The Divorce Coach', is an award-winning authority on break-ups, divorce, and life-empowerment. She's the best-kept secret of society's elite with a client list that spans actors, politicians, and sportsmen. A bestselling author, Sara's empathetic and holistic coaching style empowers individuals to take back control and positively transform their lives.
An NLP Master Practitioner, Sara combines 26 years' coaching experience with her own personal experience of marriage breakdown to help clients cope with challenges including heartbreak, betrayal, conflict, confidence building, co-parenting, and being effective in the workplace during divorce and dating again. Coaching is tailored to suit a client's lifestyle needs, with options ranging from private coaching at Sara's clinic, home visits and online video courses to the immersive group environment on her highly acclaimed Breakup Recovery Retreats. Following the success of Sara's Breakup & Divorce Coach Practitioner Accreditation Programme, Sara founded the International Divorce Coach Centre of Excellence in 2021 and has now created a global coaching community of over 200 Divorce Coaches spanning 14 countries and six continents. The programme is designed to help those interested in becoming a coach as well as existing coaches who want to take their business to the next level.
Sara launched Heartbreak To Happiness, an empowering podcast designed to help men and women struggling with the pain of relationship breakdown. The podcast hit New and Noteworthy six times in the first six weeks post launch and hit #1 spot in Ireland and #2 in the UK charts and #24 in USA. Recent guests have included Jason Vale, Bill Walsh, Bernardo Moya and Nicole Jacobs.
Sara has firmly cemented her reputation as the go-to expert on domestic abuse, joining forces with The Dash Charity as their patron and recently launched the UK's first ever dedicated retreat 'How to divorce an abusive partner and recover from a toxic relationship', aimed at empowering those feeling helpless and overwhelmed with the critical tools they need to break free, so they can start their healing journey and redesign their lives.
At the government level, Sara consults on marriage and divorce legislation, most recently the divorce law reform. Sara is also a regular media commentator and motivational speaker, and she recently starred as the expert in Heartbreak Hotel, a television show based around the concept of her Breakup Recovery Retreats.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. My son started his first day of his senior year of high school today. |
| 0:55.6 | So I am feeling a little, I don't even know what I'm feeling. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm like slightly reclept, but I'm also proud and happy for him and all of the things. |
| 1:09.9 | But like, whoa. |
| 1:12.4 | Whoa. |
| 1:14.5 | Like five minutes ago, he was, like, tiny. |
| 1:19.9 | As they say, the years fly by, but the days drag on. |
| 1:27.2 | I think that is very true. Listen, coming up soon, |
| 1:31.9 | in the next few weeks, you're going to start hearing a little bit more about this group |
| 1:36.4 | program that I've put together, which I've finally come up with a name for. It is officially |
| 1:41.7 | called grit and grace. |
| 1:51.8 | And that's because that's what it takes to get through all of this, whether you are trying to decide whether to stay or go, whether you're in the process of divorce, whether you're on |
| 1:57.3 | the other side and trying to heal from it. |
| 2:00.0 | It takes grit and it takes grace. |
| 2:03.7 | There is so much hard work to be done, |
| 2:06.6 | but all of it needs to be done in the container of grace, |
| 2:11.3 | most particularly for yourself. |
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