{"podcast":{"title":"Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast","slug":"journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749","podcast_index_feed_id":517749,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/82070/rss","website_url":"https://www.jbddivorcesupport.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/8/4/0/5840e7273510ac1c88c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Journeybeyonddivorcepodcast.png","author":"Karen McMahon","episode_count":468,"summary":"The Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast is your trusted companion through every stage of divorce—emotional, legal, financial, and parental. With over nine years of impactful episodes, this top-ranked podcast supports men and women navigating the challenges of divorce, especially those facing high-conflict dynamics, co-parenting struggles, emotional overwhelm, or legal uncertainty. Hosted by Karen McMahon, Certified Divorce Coach® and founder of Journey Beyond Divorce, the show offers strategic guidance, expert interviews, and real-life stories designed to help listeners move from confusion and chaos to clarity and confidence. Each episode is packed with insight and inspiration to help you make informed decisions, protect your children, safeguard your finances, and heal emotionally—so you can create a life you truly love post-divorce. If you're on the fence about whether to stay or go, have just been told your marriage is ending, or are actively working through the messy middle of litigation, negotiation, or co-parenting, this podcast meets you where you are. You'll learn how to emotionally regulate through triggers, explore your divorce process options (mediation, collaboration, litiga…","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:19:13.384787+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749"},"episode":{"title":"When Divorce Tests Your Faith: Protecting Kids & Staying Strong with Top Divorce Lawyer, Bree Sullivan-Howell, JD","slug":"when-divorce-tests-your-faith-protecting-kids-staying-strong-with-top-divorce-lawyer-bree-sullivan-howell-jd","published_at":"2026-05-20T19:20:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749/when-divorce-tests-your-faith-protecting-kids-staying-strong-with-top-divorce-lawyer-bree-sullivan-howell-jd","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/journey-beyond-divorce-podcast-517749","url":"https://journeybeyonddivorce.libsyn.com/when-divorce-tests-your-faith-protecting-kids-staying-strong-with-top-divorce-lawyer-bree-sullivan-howell-jd","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/journeybeyonddivorce/Bree_Sullivan_Howell.mp3?dest-id=382788","summary":"Divorce can rattle everything you believe in. Your sense of family, your identity, and even your understanding of God's plan for your life... And for many Christians, the place that should offer the most comfort, the church, can sometimes feel like the last place they're able to be honest about what they're going through. In this episode, Karen sits down with Bree Sullivan-Howell, divorce attorney, passionate children's advocate, and award-winning Christian author of Crush Your Divorce & Keep Your Faith and Crush Your Comeback, for a conversation that brings together sharp legal wisdom and deep spiritual grounding in a way that is rarely offered to people navigating divorce. With more than 20 years of experience in high-stakes custody litigation and family law, Bree has sat with men and women at some of the most painful and disorienting moments of their lives. What she brings to this conversation is both practical and profound, an understanding of how faith doesn't disappear in the middle of relational chaos, but can actually deepen through it. Karen and Bree explore how traditional church messaging can unintentionally shame Christian women going through divorce, how misunderstood scripture can leave people feeling pressured to stay in unhealthy or even abusive marriages, and how an eternal perspective, rooted in prayer and truth, can replace fear with clarity. Bree shares how she weaves scriptural wisdom directly into her legal strategy, encouraging clients toward dignified conduct, truthful evidence, and emotional steadiness even when everything around them feels unstable. They also speak candidly about fathers navigating custody, a dimension of divorce that often goes underserved. Bree addresses the reality that many loving, involved dads face an uphill battle to st…","meta_description":"Divorce can rattle everything you believe in. 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