If you are walking through a life saving divorce, separation, co parenting or parallel parenting, the holidays can feel like emotional whiplash. One minute you are holding it together for the kids, the next you are hit with a wave of grief you did not see coming.

In this tender and honest conversation, Amie shares a live lesson from her December Q and A where she talks about:

• Why the holidays can feel so triggering after betrayal and divorce

• How your nervous system bonds to a shared dream and why grief shows up years later

• What it looks like to feel alone at big milestone moments with your kids

• The pressure to create the “perfect” holiday after divorce and why that backfires

• How to notice when you are in a George Bailey moment from It’s a Wonderful Life

• Why overwhelm is a trauma response and not a character flaw

• How your presence still anchors your children. Even on the years you do not have them for Christmas

• Simple grounding tools to help regulate your nervous system during holiday stress

• Ideas for micro traditions and new rituals that feel gentle and doable in this season

• How to rewrite your story and step back into agency, even in a quiet house

This episode is for you if:

• You feel waves of grief around the holidays and wonder “Shouldn’t I be over this by now”

• You are co parenting with an ex and the holiday schedule feels unfair or painful

• You are spending Christmas or New Year’s without your kids and your heart hurts

• Old traditions bring up more pain than joy

• You want realistic, trauma informed ways to ground your body and calm your nervous system

Amie uses her own stories as a single mom watching her son play high school and college ball, and weaves in the symbolism from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life to remind you that your life and your impact still matter. Your nervous system is not broken. It is responding to loss, love and the shared dreams that did not happen the way you hoped.

You are not behind. You are not failing at healing. You are human.

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When betrayal shatters your trust and divorce changes everything you thought your life would be, hope can feel impossible. You might find yourself thinking, “I’ll never trust again.” or “Maybe I’m just too broken to start over.”

In this episode, we’re unpacking what hope after betrayal and divorce really means—what it is, what it isn’t, and how to find it again when it feels completely gone. Hope isn’t about waiting for someone else to change or for life to return to what it was; it’s about reclaiming your agency, your self-trust, and your ability to believe in what’s still possible for you.

We’ll talk about how to recognize false hope, rebuild your inner strength, and reconnect to the kind of hope that comes from within—the kind that lets you believe in you again.

• Why false hope can keep you stuck in pain and waiting for change that never comes

• The difference between survival hope and empowered hope

• What Brené Brown teaches about hope as a learned practice

• How to hold both grief and growth at the same time

• Why hope isn’t naive—it’s an act of courage

• How to root your hope in awareness, acceptance, and agency

“Hope isn’t waiting for someone to save you.
It’s realizing you have the power to choose yourself—again and again.”

If you’ve lost hope in love, in men, or even in your ability to trust yourself again—this is where healing begins.

Registration is now open for the Dating From Within Workshop, happening January 8–10.
This 3-day live experience will help you rediscover your confidence, rebuild trust with yourself, and learn how to date from a place of wholeness—not wounds.

You’ll walk away with:
✨ A clear understanding of what healthy connection feels like
✨ Tools to trust your intuition and body’s signals again
✨ Hope that real, secure love is possible

Because dating after betrayal isn’t about finding someone new—it’s about finding yourself first.

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