In this week's episode, I have Vikki Stark joining me. Vikki is an internationally known psychotherapist, speaker, author, divorce recovery expert, and the director of the Sedona Counselling Centre of Montreal. She's particularly known for her groundbreaking book, Runaway Husbands, which has led her to mentor a worldwide community of women recovering from unexpected divorce.

She has written two other books (My Sister, My Self, and The Divorce Talk: How to Tell the Kids) and edited a fourth, Planet Heartbreak, which is a compilation of 62 stories written by women from the Runaway Husbands community.

She's a blogger for Psychology Today and has often been a guest on radio and television, and a speaker at conferences worldwide. She is devoted to helping the women in her community and loves leading retreats, either online, in Montreal, or in Sedona, Arizona.

In this episode she talks about:

• Her own story of sudden wife abandonment.
• How this experience pivoted her on a path in life of helping other women going through the same thing.
• The ten hallmarks of sudden wife syndrome.
• The link between sudden wife abandonment and covert narcissism.
• The transformational healing stages after going through something like this.
• How to learn to see this experience as an opportunity for growth and change.
• How to talk to your kids when this happens.
• And so much more!

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