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.

I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of

the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to

hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process

with your sanity and your heart intact.

Hey everyone, welcome back. So today we're going to be talking about practicing patients.

This is the second episode in my seven-step divorce mindset reset series.

This is a really important one. Look, right? Yeah, patience, of course, yada, yada. It's a lot more

in-depth than that. So it's really, really, really important that we practice patients, even in the most amicable cases, because divorce can be lengthy and emotionally demanding and taxing. So we've got to set realistic

expectations from the beginning so that you can manage this process more effectively

without losing your mind.

So why does it matter?

Like, why does patients matter?

First of all, you're going to have realistic expectations.

When you understand how long this takes and all of the specific steps that are involved,

you're going to be prepared mentally and emotionally.

And that will help reduce stress, right?

When you know what to expect, you're not freaking out at every turn.

And this is also going to help you make better decisions.

You're going to make, you're not going to make rash decisions. You are going to understand through patients, you're going to have the wherewithal to make informed decisions.

Divorce, listen, some divorces last decades, right? We're not doing that. We're not doing some like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, bifurcation, you know,

millions of years in court because of a winery.

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