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Being human in this digitally hyperconnected day and age is a tricky thing when we’re going through a season of pain or grief, regardless of what caused them, because now your problem is also everyone else’s, and when you’re in the thick of your trauma and find yourself being bombarded with other people’s opinions on the deepest and most personal wounds of your life, you become ten times more likely to doubt your choices and decisions based on emptiness. And all that doubt makes the healing process so much more difficult than it already has to be.

All that judgement. Feeling like your life is hung on a wall at a public museum. Having people preach at you, repeating all the ways you could have and should have done better in order to avoid the pain you’re now in. Gosh, we can be absolutely brutal to one another! 

Over the past couple of episodes i made the conscious decision to open up about the trauma of my own divorce. Being a young Egyptian, Christian, divorced woman, i knew full well that my decision to address such a sore topic would not be easy. I haven’t, and still will not disclose any details of my marriage or reasons for my divorce—that stuff is personal and will forever be too tender to willingly display out in the open. But i do feel a strong nagging in my chest to bring this taboo topic to the table, because i know that i am not the only one who has had  to face the utter loneliness of a marriage breakup. It is important for people who are going through divorce to know that they are not alone: that the sad reality is that living in this fallen and broken world may sometimes mean that we will not always have very many options. I have personally come to discover that even having a choice between good or bad is a humungous privilege in itself! Because all i could choose between were bad and worse. But i also feel very strongly that those who have not and are not experiencing divorce themselves also listen to this series, because they have the power either to destroy or to heal. And what we talk about isn’t only applicable to the subject of divorce. Society’s condemnation or support can be the making or breaking point for anyone who is experiencing any grief—anyone who is walking through any difficult season of life. 

So i ask that you keep an open heart and an open mind, regardless of which side of the fence you stand on today. Let me tell you about how it gets better. Let me tell you about the hope that was impossible for me to see when i was buried in hurt and disappointment. 

In today's conversation we talk about: 

• The importance of closure (but what kind of closure?)
• How to survive the seemingly endless season of waiting that comes with divorce
• Finding ourselves in the most unexpected places 
• Living new and improved! 

Mentioned in the episode: 

• The Next Right Thing
• The 'Boundaries' episode

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