My Divorce Recovery Journey and Learning To Only Look Forward

Going into a divorce when you’re too emotional can be a disaster. Instead, give yourself time to heal, travel, and meet new friends. Join groups to keep you active, whether it be a gym class or a social event or even a divorce retreat . For you to recoup and receive some emotional support and inspiration. As we all know, time is a good healer, and if you don’t plan and get prepared for it, you could end up in a fight, and the only ones that will win will be the lawyers. Tr

After just 2 years of launching Mending Hearts Retreat and with a pandemic hopefully behind us we finally got to have our first ever international retreat back in May. For the past 2 years, we've been hosting Mending Hearts in the beautiful English countryside of East Sussex. No retreat is the same, some can be more challenging than others, but as long as we keep going we become stronger and better each time. March was so much fun, we had a lovely bunch of women 10 in total,

After months of anticipation and stress in the hope, that the retreat would go ahead, we managed to scrape through. This was primarily due to all the attendees that stayed committed and supportive. Everyone had either been tested or vaccinated before their arrival which provided the group added reassurance throughout the weekend. For our first day, we had our favourite artist back Dave Randall, who gathered the group into the main bar to paint a self-portrait of themselves in

Wow, what an amazing weekend we had! We laughed, we cried and bonded, whilst having the most fun. The weekend couldn't have gone better. The group were amazing and so were our grief and divorce coaches and our superstar therapist Heather Mallery. Thank you to Stephanie Corking and Karen Sutton our life, grief and divorce coaches who made a strong and positive impact to the weekend, but if we had to choose one who stole the show, it would have to be our therapist Heather Mall