It wasn’t until my divorce that I allowed myself to feel the spirituality that was in me.
How did it surface? On the night I found out about my husband’s affair, something punched my gut – telling me, “Wake up, Wendy!”
And that’s how I knew that I had it in me the whole time – the awareness, the instinctual voice, and the more I acknowledged it, the stronger it became.
It isn’t as simple as a snap of a finger. But rather a whole process that took a lot of learning and self-reflection.
Tune in to this episode on How I Grew Spiritually After Divorce.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️Learn more to connect. Even with my Jewish roots, I sought spirituality from different places. Surrounding yourself with a community with faith in a higher power helps you keep in touch with your spiritual side.
✔️Identify your North Star. How? Recognize your values and how you can implement them as you move into your new life.
✔️Practice forgiveness. It doesn’t mean forgetting and condoning. It’s accepting what happened and letting it go to allow yourself to see the light, so you can bring back joy and love into your life again.
✔️Throw a divorce party. Spiritual healing doesn’t happen overnight. Sometimes, you need unique methods to help you move forward. It can be an event to mark your bright future of endless possibilities!
✔️Destroy the dress. It symbolized closure and releasing that old identity and married life I had. Doing a ritual like this that you can actually see can be enough for us to process our feelings.
✔️Spirituality doesn’t look the same for everyone. Whether it’s a retreat, a burning of your ex-spouse’s gifts, or singing – the end goal is to release all the pent-up negative energy and manifest what we desire to create in this new life.
What’s your way of practicing spirituality in your healing process?
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