Episode 77: Divorce Rehab with Wendy Sterling
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
I am excited to bring you my interview with my dear friend, Wendy Sterling. Wendy and I are talking about healing and reclaiming ownership of your voice and identity after divorce. Wendy is a Divorce Recovery Specialist, a certified life coach, writer, author, and speaker who founded The Divorce Rehab™.
Wendy and I are book-ends when it comes to divorce and coaching. I work with women before their divorce, and Wendy works with women after divorce and helps them build their life back up.
In this episode, we discuss the idea that divorce can be an empowering experience. Yes, it's emotional and downright hard. And, when we get to the heart of the matter - divorce is a breakdown.
But to get to the breakthrough, you have to sit through the breakdown first.
I hope that this episode is a reminder to allow yourself to experience the pain and work to get to the other side. Because it may just be the best thing to ever happen to you.
Show Highlights
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Wendy's story of divorce and the realization that divorce can be an empowering experience. (3:59)
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Comparing your relationship to other relationships is unhealthy and unnecessary. (14:01)
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When Wendy's marriage was over, she realized she no longer needed to continue doing things that didn't fulfil her. (19:09)
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Why you should get curious about what is coming up when you are working to find your voice and identity. (24:27)
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What inspires Wendy to do the work she does with divorced women. (28:11)
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The Divorce Rehab™ - a five-step process that focuses on using tough love to move through the pain and fear of divorce more quickly than if you do it alone. (33:11)
Learn More About Wendy:
Wendy Sterling is a Divorce Recovery Specialist, a certified life coach, writer, author and speaker who founded The Divorce Rehab™. Wendy helps divorced women recover from their divorce by remembering who they are and what they are capable of by ending their pity party, mourning their marriage and MOVING FORWARD with dignity to see how much better life is afterwards. She believes divorce can be an empowering experience that women go through to find their true identity and voice to create the life they want instead of the life they feel stuck with. Wendy is a graduate from UCLA and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) from The Co-Active Training Institute. She is also an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through International Coach Federation. Wendy is a divorced, single mom who transformed her own life from Corporate America employee to entrepreneur and currently lives in Sherman Oaks, CA with her two boys and dog.
Resources & Links:
Free 15-minute Divorce Recovery Call
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome back to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. I am your host, |
| 0:47.5 | your divorce survival guide, Kate Anthony. How's everyone doing? Good. Yeah, like that. Every client call I have these days, we get on the phone and we're like, hey, how you doing? And they're like, I mean, and they're like, how are you? And I'm like, I mean, that's just how it is these days, right? And then we |
| 1:13.7 | all go, it's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's just fine. You know, let's just keep it real, |
| 1:22.9 | shall we? It's a shit show. But everything's fine. Everything's just fine. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm excited about this episode today because today I am bringing you my dear friend, Wendy Sterling. |
| 1:36.5 | And Wendy and I met, I think we met on the internet. |
| 1:41.9 | It gets where I meet everybody. |
| 1:47.8 | She's a divorce recovery specialist. She's a certified life coach. She was certified by the same organization that certified me, the same |
| 1:54.1 | coaching school. She's a writer, author, and speaker, and she founded something called |
| 1:59.5 | divorce rehab with Wendy, or just the divorce rehab. |
| 2:03.1 | And Wendy helps divorce women recover from their divorce by remembering who they are and what |
| 2:09.3 | they're capable of by ending their pity party, mourning their marriage, and moving forward. |
| 2:15.6 | So Wendy and I are basically bookends, right? I do a lot of the, |
| 2:21.2 | I mean, I work with women after marriage too, but after divorce as well. But, you know, my, |
| 2:27.1 | my real sort of sweet spot in the world is the should I stay or should I go question. |
| 2:34.4 | And then once they've gotten through it all, then they go to Wendy to build their life |
| 2:38.5 | back up again. So we adore each other. We spoke on a panel together a few months ago just |
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