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Stop Chasing Balance After Divorce: A Work-Life Harmony Coach Explains What to Do Instead with Amy Pierre-Russo
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- Divorce Happens
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- Apr 17, 2026
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- 692
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Summary
You were so close. The kids were finally sleeping through the night. You'd found a rhythm at work. You were starting to feel like yourself again — like balance was actually possible. And then divorce happened. And the scales didn't just tip — they crashed. If that sentence made you exhale, this episode is for you. In this conversation on Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell sits down with Amy Pierre-Russo , a work-life harmony coach who has built her entire practice around one radical reframe: stop chasing balance, and start designing for harmony. Because balance, Amy argues, is a trap — a pressure-cooker concept that sets us up to feel like we're always failing. Harmony, on the other hand, is a flow state. It's abundance instead of scarcity. And it's something you can begin to cultivate even in the middle of the most destabilizing season of your life. What Amy brings to this conversation is both clarity and compassion for what divorce actually does to a person's sense of self and direction. She talks about what happens when an unexpected life event — divorce, job loss, a new baby — strips away the systems you had built and leaves you scrambling to figure out what you even want anymore. Her answer is not to grind harder. It's to get small and get clear. She guides her clients to start with just 10% — 10% closer to the version of their life when they felt most supported, most connected, most themselves. She also opens up an often-overlooked dimension of divorce recovery: the community loss. When a marriage ends, it's not just a partner you lose. It's friendships. Social circles. Decade-long relationships. And rebuilding that web of connection — intentionally, even with limited time and energy — is one of the most essential and underrated parts of starting over after divo…