# 5 Emotional Hurdles She Overcame on Her Way to Freedom with Journey Beyond Divorce Client, Lauren

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Podcast: [Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749)
Published: 2026-03-22T03:50:00+00:00
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## Resource

n this Voices of Celebration episode, I'm sitting down with Lauren, a woman who, for years, lived in that in-between space so many of you know all too well… where nothing is fully resolved, yet everything feels like it's on the line. From the outside, her life looked successful. She was a business owner, had two homes, and was raising three children. But behind closed doors, she was carrying overwhelming debt, navigating constant uncertainty, and lying awake at night asking the same painful questions: What if I lose everything? What if my kids blame me? What if I never recover from this? Lauren spent years trying to hold it all together—financially, emotionally, and as a mother—while also attempting to be fair, to protect her children, and to make sense of a process that felt anything but fair. It wasn't until she stepped into coaching that she finally had a space to put it all down… the fear, the pressure, the complexity, and the constant mental spinning. Through that work, she began to shift. She learned how to separate what she could control from what she couldn't. She stopped looking to her ex or the legal system for closure. And instead, she started making decisions anchored in her values rather than her fear. Her journey was anything but simple. She navigated incredibly complex financial challenges—from international tax issues to shared debt and business pressures—while also facing one of the most emotional decisions a parent can make: whether to sell the family home. The fear of how that decision might impact her children was real and deeply felt. But what's so powerful about Lauren's story is not that everything worked out perfectly… it didn't. She didn't walk away with the financial picture she once imagined. What she did walk away with, however, was somethin…

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