Divorced and Rising

A chiropractor, energy healer, and blues singer who's rebranded herself as the Soul Chiropractor, Dr. Tanya English has spent decades chasing the root cause of suffering, first through massage and chiropractic training, later through emotional and energetic work. Along the way, she lost a full-term baby just weeks before graduating chiropractic school, an experience that became the foundation for how she now helps clients process grief and trauma in the body.

In this conversation, we get into what it actually means to treat pain as information instead of a problem to fix, why she asks clients "what are you seeking" instead of "what's wrong," and the four levels of forgiveness she teaches.

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A licensed clinical social worker for over 30 years, certified hypnotherapist, and intuitive business expert, Nanci Deutsch built her framework called the Intuition Advantage out of her own divorce, which happened while she was finishing social work school and still deeply codependent on the people around her to make her decisions for her.

In this conversation, Alex and Nanci trace how someone moves from outsourcing every decision to trusting their own inner knowing, the subconscious patterns that keep people repeating the same relationship dynamics across marriages, and concrete ways to recognize and disentangle from manipulation and control.

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Certified healer Judith Ritchie spent six months on her couch, separated from her husband but still living under the same roof, before what she calls her "dark night of the soul." What followed was years of work that eventually became her passion.

In this conversation, Judith talks about the difference between therapy and true healing, why she pushes clients to stop using the word "fix," and the three-step process she uses to move people from awareness to breakthrough to real transformation. She also shares the raw, complicated truth about parenting through her own divorce, including the relationship she lost and hasn't recovered.

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Money is one of the most loaded, least-discussed parts of divorce, and financial coach Hope LaFrance built her business while going through her own separation, so she knows the mess from both sides. She spent years buried under debt her former husband ran up using her credit, and she now helps other women untangle exactly that kind of financial chaos.

In this conversation, Hope breaks down the warning signs she watches for when working with couples, the shame and secrecy that so often surround money in a marriage, and the concrete first steps toward rebuilding financial independence. This one's for anyone who left financial decisions to someone else and is now staring down the question of what to do next.

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At 78, Dawn Overstreet has been married four times, lived off the land in the Canadian boonies, run an international jewelry business, and survived cancer using a combination of medicine and her own inner work. None of it, she says, was wasted. Every relationship and every setback taught her something she still uses.

In this conversation, she talks about tracing physical symptoms back to their spiritual causes, why she spent years letting other people direct the picture of her own life instead of stepping into it herself, and what it actually takes to rebuild after loss: patience, honest evaluation of what you gained, and the willingness to change your own story instead of staying stuck in it.

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Sanna Kettunen is a graphic artist, brand designer, and author living outside Helsinki, Finland. Her book "The Best Is Yet to Come" came out of two divorces and years spent unable to sit still, let alone alone, until she learned to.

In this conversation, she traces that shift: from constantly seeking cues and validation from other people, to using guided meditation as a bridge into stillness, to finally trusting her own instincts without anyone else's approval. This episode is for any woman starting her own rebuilding process and wondering if the discomfort ever eases. It does, and Sanna's story is the proof.

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Meet Gina Kroezen, a health stylist based in Amsterdam who spent years chasing unexplained health issues before realizing her body was trying to tell her something her mind kept overriding. In this conversation, we dig into what actually happens when women stop listening to their bodies during major life transitions like divorce, and why "eat healthy, go to the gym" advice misses the real question underneath it all.

Gina shares how trauma and stress show up physically long before they're named emotionally, why food intolerances often hide in plain sight, and why so many women come out of divorce having built a wall so strong that softness starts to feel unsafe. This episode is a reminder that self-care isn't a bubble bath. It's the daily practice of asking your body what it actually needs and being brave enough to answer.

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If you've done the work, read the books, followed the advice, and still find yourself in the same patterns with the wrong people, this episode is going to feel like a relief.

Joan Nwosu has been engaged eight times. One divorce. Years of following every dating framework that existed. And what she discovered along the way is that the problem was never effort. It was trying to attract love from a version of herself that wasn't really her.

Joan is a dating coach who recently integrated human design into her work after noticing something her clients kept telling her: the advice works, but it doesn't feel like me. That one sentence changed everything about how she helps women date after divorce.

In this conversation, we talk about what human design actually is and why it matters more than any dating checklist, the difference between love languages and love gates and why one goes so much deeper than the other, what happens when you're operating from your "not self" in relationships and why you keep attracting the same type of person no matter how much inner work you think you've done, and why burying yourself in your career after divorce feels productive but isn't the whole answer.

We also get into something I don't talk about enough: how showing up in full masculine energy at work and then bringing that same energy home contributed to the unraveling of my own marriage. Joan names it in a way that's going to land for a lot of you.

Her parting message: your divorce wasn't a failure. It was a reactivation. The question is what you do with it from here.

Joan also has a free human design dating archetype report for listeners, just drop us a message to get access.

Lorna Gale left a 30-year marriage at 63 to step fully into work she could no longer ignore. What led her there wasn't a dramatic falling out. It was the quiet, persistent realization that staying meant slowly disappearing.

Lorna is a somatic sexologist and what she calls a sex and spirit alchemist of the feminine-led life. Her work sits at the intersection of body, sexuality, and spiritual reclamation and it was born directly out of her own journey of disconnection, awakening, and choosing herself.

We talk about what it means to grow up believing your body isn't yours and how that belief silently shapes every relationship you enter, why so many women arrive at divorce completely disconnected from their own desires, not just from their partner, the difference between yin feminine, yang feminine, yin masculine, and yang masculine and why understanding all four changes how you see yourself, what it actually looks like to reclaim your erotic life force energy after years of suppressing it and why that has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with power, and the tree in the pot, Lorna's image for what it feels like to stay in a container you've outgrown.

She also says something that landed hard for me personally: everything we judge in our partners is a mirror. Every single thing. That one is worth sitting with long after this episode ends.

Lorna's message to women coming out of divorce: you don't need to find your other half out there. Come home first. Use everything outside you as a mirror. The treasure was here the whole time.

Lynda Talley spent decades navigating abuse — and when she finally left her marriage, she was standing in the shower when she felt it: a sense of release, a glimpse of what her life was actually supposed to look like. The moment she walked out of that bathroom, everything blew up. But she knew she was worth more than what was waiting for her on the other side of that door.

That moment set her on a path of healing that led to CPTSD diagnosis, therapy, and eventually the work she does now — helping women find their voice, understand their power, and come back to themselves.

Lynda is the creator of Discover Your Radiance. In this conversation we get into the kind of inner work that doesn't come with a timeline.

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Lynda also works with soul blueprints, Akashic records, and intuitive tools to help women understand who they are at a deeper level. If that language is new to you, she explains it in a way that's accessible and grounded.

Her parting message: start with the mirror. Look yourself in the eye. Say "I am worthy." That's where it begins.