Rising from the Ashes of Divorce

The Journey: Emotional and spiritual fulfillment after the loss of partnership through divorce

This book is an eight-week course, outlined in chapters 1 through 8; each section should be read and reflected on before moving to the next. The ninth chapter is for reflection. I have intentionally kept each chapter short because I believe that many of us get self-help books and after struggling through one long-winded chapter never read the rest. I would suggest that you take one chapter per week, re-reading it if you like, and use the question pages to journal your thoughts. Journaling our thoughts is a powerful tool. It aids us in our personal exploration and honors where we have been as well as where we are now. When we look back on our writing, it is like a map of where we were and where we wish to go.

I open each chapter with words of wisdom and end each chapter with prayer. Along the way, you’ll find wonderful quotes from some of the most gifted visionaries of all time. In the prayers as well as when reading this book, feel free to substitute God for Goddess, Great Spirit, Divine Intelligence or whatever term brings the most comfort. As you will discover within these pages, one of the secrets, I feel, to moving forward in a positive direction is to deepen our connection to a power greater than ourselves and one another. By creating a more intimate relationship with this Source, our blinders are removed, and we are able to perceive our lives from a place of love and truth, trusting through faith that it is unfolding as it should, according to God’s will.

At the end of each section, you will be given Divine Assignments to work through. I also pose a series of questions, which are great for inner reflection and also for conversation. They are meant to jump-start your heart and open the mind and psyche to your personal knowing. It is up to you how much you get out of this work—you will reap only what you sow—so put some overalls on, and let’s get to it.