Category: Letting Go & Moving On

Sometimes the most loving choice we can make, for ourselves and others, is to release what no longer serves us. The end of a relationship, whether through separation, divorce, or emotional distance, can feel like the loss of an entire world.

In this category, you’ll find guidance, reflective questions, and empowering strategies to help you navigate the delicate process of endings.

You’ll discover how to process grief, find closure, and embrace the next stage of your life with clarity and courage and much more, including:

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How to End a Marriage Peacefully—Even When It Hurts

How do you end a marriage peacefully?

When two people say ‘I do’, I don’t imagine either of them is thinking about ending a marriage. Read more

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5 Reasons Why Divorce Is Emotionally Challenging

In a recent discussion centred on relationships, a participant voiced a desire for someone to impart the understanding that all relationships, whether ending by divorce, separation, or death, bear an inherent impermanence. Read more

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21 Painful Losses You Might Not Expect In Divorce

Divorce isn’t always painful.  

But what is always part of a divorce or separation is loss.  

Divorce is all about loss.   Read more

3 Things You Need to Know About Letting Go - Three Women Holding on To Multiple Shopping Bags Afraid Of Letting Them Go - Sandra Harewood Counselling

3 Things You Need to Know About Letting Go

Nature has so much to tell us about letting go. 

I’m looking out of my window here in London, England, and I can see some evergreens, but some of the most striking trees are bare. They let go of their leaves some time ago, stripped bare by the winter wind, now naked and vulnerable. 

And yet they stand tall.  Read more

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One Thing You Should Know About The Pain Of Grief

Grief is a natural part of life. Most people don’t get through life, avoiding it. 

Surprisingly we don’t just grieve when a person has died. We also grieve when a relationship has died, and you’ve separated or divorced. But sometimes you’re still in the trenches of the relationship processing its demise. Read more