chronic emotional stress, hypervigilance, walking on eggshills, legal battles, financial fear, parenting stress,

constant, relentless decision-making, Jesus Christ, talk about decision fatigue, and your brain

and your body have been in survival mode for all this time.

And survival mode is not meant to last forever.

So when things calm down, even just a little bit, your system doesn't immediately go,

woohoo, yes, we're free.

It goes, okay, we can finally stop.

And then everything you've been holding together drops.

And that's the crash.

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 I want to talk about something that I don't think we've ever covered before, but I see increasingly in my client population, which is burnout after

divorce. Because this is the thing I think that very few people,

probably myself included, don't really prepare you for, which is like you have made it through

so much already, right? You go through making the hardest decision that you've ever had to make. You have

survived the chaos of the initial separation and all that that entails. You get through the legal

process and your divorce is final. You're on the other side. And then you expect to feel better because

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