The Divorce Awakening

The Divorce Awakening

By Delia Monk and Sam BrindleHealth & FitnessMental Health
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The Divorce Awakening episodes

  • Episode 4: Identity Shifts & Career Changes After Divorce
    Episode 4: Identity Shifts & Career Changes After Divorce

    Delia spent $12,000 on a rebrand. Two weeks after launching it, she burnt the whole thing down.

    Was she reckless, or was it just a sign she did enough inner work to know when something — however expensive, however beautiful — isn't right anymore?

    This week on Divorce Awakening, Sam and Delia get into one of the most undertalked side effects of divorce: the moment you realise the career you built doesn't fit the person you've become.

    In this episode, you'll hear:

    🔥 Sam and Delia's career journeys — and how divorce shifted everything for them (in very different ways)

    🔥 Why your business can stop feeling like yours after divorce — and what that resistance to promoting yourself is actually telling you

    🔥 The difference between becoming a different person after divorce and becoming who you actually are — and why it matters

    🔥 What to do when your career feels completely out of whack post-divorce (and you're not sure what comes next)

    🔥 Why working for yourself can feel more stable than a job — even when it absolutely isn't on paper

    If you've ever found yourself staring at a career that made perfect sense five years ago and thinking who even is this for anymore — this episode is going to feel uncomfortably relatable.

    🎧 Listen now — and maybe start asking yourself what you'd do if you actually let yourself have goals.


    25 min
  • Episode 3: How to Stop Being Triggered by Your Ex
    Episode 3: How to Stop Being Triggered by Your Ex

    You see his name on your phone. Your heart rate spikes. The rage arrives before you've even opened the message.

    Sound familiar? This week on Divorce Awakening, Sam and Delia get into the one thing nobody warns you about — that your ex doesn't have to be in the same room to completely hijack your nervous system.

    In this episode, you'll hear:

    🔥 What "being triggered" actually means — and why your reaction often has nothing to do with what just happened

    🔥 The wounded inner child explained (without the woo — well, mostly without the woo)

    🔥 Whether someone can just be... a dick. And why it almost doesn't matter either way

    🔥 Delia's trigger diary — the simple tool that helped her spot the patterns

    🔥 Delia's full six-step Trigger Plan that lived on her bathroom wall and genuinely saved her from replying with "dick energy"

    🔥 Why replying when triggered is the single worst thing you can do — and what to do instead

    🔥 The question that changes everything when you're triggered beyond a point of return

    If there's one episode to send to a friend who's deep in the trenches of a high-conflict co-parenting situation, this is it.

    The power to change how you feel is yours. Not his. Yours.

    🎧 Listen now — and maybe don't reply to that message just yet.

    19 min
  • Episode 2: The Emptiness After Divorce

    "I would close my laptop on a Monday evening and think... what do I do now?"

    That empty feeling when the kids leave for their dad's? Sam knows it intimately. And her solution for far too long was simple: beer, Netflix, repeat.

    Welcome back to Divorce Awakening.

    This week, Delia and Sam get real about the bit nobody warns you about — the messy, lonely, "I've made the decision but I have NO idea how to actually live now" middle.

    In this episode, you'll hear:

    🔥 Sam's brutally honest take on 50/50 co-parenting weeks — and the silence that hits when the kids walk out the door

    🔥 The unglamorous truth about numbing out — and why there's zero judgment here

    🔥 Why guilt might be the single biggest waste of time for divorced mums — and the difference between real guilt and just... self-flagellation with a saucepan

    🔥 The "vibration" talk: how living in guilt, fear and anxiety actually shapes every decision you make (and not for the better)

    🔥 How being triggered by someone is actually information about YOU

    🔥 The honest conversation about jumping into a new relationship vs. doing the work — no judgment, but one big question to ask yourself

    This episode is for anyone who's ever felt like they're just going through the motions — surviving the week, numbing the silence, and wondering if there's another way to live.

    Spoiler: there is. And it starts with one small choice.

    Listen now — and ask yourself: what's your version of the Monday beer?

    16 min
  • Episode 1: Welcome to the Divorce Awakening

    "I cannot do this." Three words. Three o'clock in the morning. New Year's Eve.
    That's how Sam told her husband their marriage was over. Messy? Yes. Necessary? Also yes.

    Welcome to the very first episode of Divorce Awakening — hosted by friends and coaches Delia Monk and Sam Brindle, two Brits living just outside Barcelona who are using everything they've learned in their own messy divorces to help you walk through yours.

    In this episode, you'll meet your hosts for the first time and hear:
    🔥 How Sam's "divorced!" reveal became a lightning-bolt moment for Delia — years before her own marriage ended
    🔥 Why your brain will fight you tooth and nail to keep you in something that isn't working (and how to over-ride it)
    🔥 The Bali holiday from hell — proof that sometimes the universe needs a tropical backdrop to deliver the final nail in the coffin
    🔥 The Excel spreadsheet that still haunts Sam's dreams (and the Great Air Fryer Betrayal of Delia's divorce)

    If you've ever felt like you're white-knuckling your way through a decision your gut already made — this episode is your sign.

    Listen now and find out: what's actually waiting for you on the other side...

    21 min

About The Divorce Awakening

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The podcast that helps you wake the f**k up after divorce — with coaches Delia Monk and Sam Brindle.

You haven't failed. Your life isn't over. Divorce is the perfect chance to find out…