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Grief After the Divorce
When the Marriage Ends but the Losses Keep Unfolding
Divorce ends a marriage, but it can change much more than your relationship status. Home, family traditions, friendships, finances, identity, plans for the future, and your understanding of the past may all look different afterward.
The Relationship Loss small group is for women who are experiencing the loss of a significant relationship: divorce, betrayal, or estrangement. The Grief Recovery Method is particularly helpful for women who have experienced divorce, who want a private, supportive place to work with what remains emotionally unfinished and begin moving more fully into the life that is theirs now.
Group Information
Dates: October 28-December 16, 2026
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM Eastern Time
Location: Online
Length: 8 Sessions
Group size: 10
Cost: $495/person
What the Group Offers
Using the Grief Recovery Method, we will work through a structured educational process for identifying and addressing unresolved grief.
The group provides an opportunity to:
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Better understand grief and the many losses that can accompany divorce
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Identify experiences that may still feel unfinished
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Examine some of the ways we learn to respond to loss
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Work through the Grief Recovery Method in a small, supportive group
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Take meaningful actions toward greater emotional completion
The purpose is not to determine who was right or wrong, analyze your former spouse, or tell you how you should feel about the marriage. You do not need to forgive what should not be excused, be grateful the divorce happened, or turn a painful experience into a lesson before you are allowed to move forward.
What to Expect
This is a small, structured group rather than an open-ended support group. We will move through the Grief Recovery Method(r) together, with reading and exercises between meetings. You decide what you share.
Personal stories are treated with care and confidentiality, and you will not be asked to defend why you stayed, why you left, what happened in the marriage/relationship, or the choices you made afterward.
The Grief Recovery Method(r) is an educational program for working with grief and loss. It is not psychotherapy or a substitute for mental health treatment.
Not Ready for a Group Yet?
You don't have to be ready to join a group to begin understanding what divorce or the loss of a significant relationship has changed.
This 12-part series explores some of the experiences that can follow divorce or the loss of a significant relationship—not as a formula for getting over grief, but as a way of understanding what loss can change and how life can gradually become more available again.
Divorce/the loss of a significant relationship is often described as an ending followed by a new beginning. Real life may be considerably messier. Long after the legal decisions are made, you may still be sorting through what happened, what was lost, what remains true, and who you are now that a relationship around which much of your life was built has ended.
This series begins by recognizing divorce or significant relationship as a genuine loss—not only of a marriage/partnership, but sometimes of a home, identity, financial security, relationships, traditions, assumptions, and an expected future.
From there, we'll gradually turn toward the life that remains. The goal isn't to make the marriage/partnership meaningless, force forgiveness, celebrate what happened, or become someone untouched by it. It is to understand what has happened well enough that the marriage/partnership—and its ending—no longer have to organize everything that comes next.
Divorce, Grief & the Life After: 12-Part Series
1. When the Marriage Ends but the Grief Doesn't
Why grief can continue long after the decision, separation, or divorce decree—and why continuing to hurt does not necessarily mean you want the marriage back.
2. Grieving More Than the Marriage
Recognizing the secondary losses of divorce: home, routines, family structure, friendships, financial expectations, traditions, belonging, and the future you thought you were building.
3. When You Don't Know What Was Real Anymore
How betrayal, conflicting stories, newly discovered information, or a painful ending can cause you to question your understanding of the entire relationship—and how to begin trusting what you know without needing to rewrite every year that came before.
4. The Life You Thought You Were Going to Have
Grieving the future you expected while recognizing that losing one imagined future does not mean losing the future itself.
5. When Anger Is Easier to Carry Than Grief
Understanding what anger may be protecting, what it can teach us, and how to keep another person's wrongdoing from becoming the organizing center of life after the marriage.
6. When Other People Have Opinions About Your Divorce
Navigating advice, judgment, divided loyalties, questions about what happened, and the astonishing number of people who apparently become relationship experts the moment someone else's marriage ends.
7. When Divorce Changes Other Relationships, Too
Recognizing changes in friendships, extended family, adult children, community, and social life—and discerning which relationships remain reciprocal, trustworthy, and worth carrying forward.
8. Who Are You When You're No Longer Someone's Wife?
Exploring identity after divorce without treating marriage as wasted time or requiring a dramatic reinvention of yourself.
9. Learning to Trust Your Own Judgment Again
When years of compromise, conflict, betrayal, criticism, or simply making decisions as part of a couple have made your own judgment harder to hear, how do you begin relying on yourself again?
10. The Difference Between Being Alone and Having a Life of Your Own
Exploring solitude, loneliness, connection, independence, and the gradual experience of inhabiting a life that does not require another relationship to make it complete.
11. You Don't Have to Become Grateful It Happened
Meaning can grow from painful experiences without requiring us to declare the experience good, necessary, or somehow worth what it cost.
Moving from a life organized around what happened, what was lost, and what someone else did toward fuller participation in the relationships, choices, work, pleasures, responsibilities, and possibilities that are yours now. You are not erasing the life you had.
You are becoming available to the life you have.
If You Found Yourself Wanting to Tell Me Your Story...
Perhaps something in this series felt familiar.
Perhaps you found yourself answering back as you read, remembering something you had forgotten, disagreeing with something, laughing at something that once wasn't funny, or wanting to stop and say:
“Yes, but here's what happened to me.”
Divorce can leave grief that remains unfinished long after the legal ending.
You don't have to want the marriage back to address what the loss has meant in your life.
My Grief Recovery for Relationship Loss group offers a small, private, structured place to work with that grief alongside other women who understand that divorce can involve much more than the loss of a spouse.