Special Guest Karen McMahon discusses proven ways to understand and process your chronic anger in a healthier way after a divorce. Is your anger covering your pain or are you stuck in anger during a grieving process?
How To Overcome Chronic Anger After Divorce With Special Guest Karen McMahon
Grief is a natural, and valuable emotional response towards different situations that we go through, and learning how to respond in a healthy way to move past anger, depression, and denial to acceptance is critical to emotional healing. In this episode, I’m joined by Karen McMahon, the founder of Journey Beyond Divorce organization which specializes in relationship and divorce coaching. Karen is a certified relationship and divorce coach and a graduate of the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC).
After surviving a long and devastating divorce Karen was able to turn her pain into purpose and she has been helping people navigate the myriad difficulties associated with the divorce process. Together with her team of dedicated coaches, they have been working with men and women to help them get to the core of their struggles, redesign situations, and live their best lives.
During the episode, Karen shares the strategies that you can use to empower yourself and reframe your situation to open doors to peace, joy, and calmness to achieve optimal balance in life. She also talks about resistance, and how you can create boundaries for unacceptable behaviors to stay in your powerful lane and control your response.
[00:16] Grieving in a healthy way to get past anger, depression, and denial to acceptance
[05:11] How to practice self-compassion, and reframe your situation to move towards acceptance
[07:24] Strategies to overcome resistance and create boundaries that serve you.
[13:15] How to use anger to fuel refinement and healing to become the best version of yourself
[15:59] Letting anger out and achieving balance to attain peace and serenity
[18:15] How to empower yourselves towards a healthy grieving process
[20:53] Moving out of your comfort zone and creating your space to neutralize anger
[25:41] Understanding your resistance and opening the door to the possibilities of calmness and joy
[28:03] Karen journey and the inspiration behind her passion
● “Anger is an important and vital emotion for us yet when we stuck it with denial or depression it no longer serves us”- Karen McMahon
● “There one thing that you have an incredible amount of power over and that you”- Karen McMahon
● “Anger is a signal and an opportunity for growth and connection” - Host Marty Wolner
● “When we learn to grieve well over small losses, we get a better opportunity to move through different emotions when something big like divorce comes”- Karen McMahon
● “Possibilities lie on the other side of your comfort zone and moving out of your comfort zone is the most liberating thing” - Karen McMahon
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Linkedin: Karen McMahon