January doesn't have to be about blowing your life up. It's about constructing the path forward with

intention. The women who fare best in divorce are not the ones who move the fastest, who follow the

prescribed timeline, right? They're the ones who orient themselves first. So think of this phase as

standing at the edge of a map. You don't start walking until you understand the terrain. Once

divorce is in motion, it's much harder and much more expensive to change course.

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, happy New Year. It is now the middle of January. And for many of you,

you were waiting until after the holidays to file. And now it's kind of here. What now?

So if you're listening to this in mid-January, you didn't arrive here accidentally.

You didn't just wake up one morning and look at the calendar and decide, okay, time to get divorced, right?

You knew this moment was coming.

You made a conscious and deliberate decision to get your kids through the holidays first to preserve

some sense of normalcy, to protect them from associating Christmas or Hanukkah or New

years with the moment everything blew up and your family was destroyed, right? You weren't avoiding

any truth. You were prioritizing your children.

And in order to do that, you probably suffered through a pretty difficult holiday yourself.

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