Spiritually Healthy Divorce: Navigating Disruption With Insight and Hope

Chart a Course to Wholeness in the Aftermath of Divorce

Divorce tends to rip away your façade and defenses, and call into question what you know or believe. That vulnerability is painful, but ultimately can bring you to a place where your spiritual life can gain strength and insight if you are open to it. In the midst of feeling lost, you can find a new path forward, which brings you to a better place.
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Divorce is never easy and almost always includes profound experiences of pain, isolation, anger, despair, and confusion. Here is a spiritual map for regaining your bearings, helping you move through the twists and turns of divorce in a spiritually healthy way.

Drawing on her work as a pastor and counselorand her personal experience with divorceCarolyne Call proposes a three-prong approach to help you reset your compass on a new destinationwholeness. Supported by first-person accounts from men and women from a variety of faith traditions who have found their way through divorce, she helps you identify:

• Where you want to goI want to be true to who I am
• Where you dont want to gothe cul-de-sacs of bitterness, resentment, victimization, and guilt
• What you can do to get there

Carolyne Call, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, is director of the Office of Civic and Social Engagement and a lecturer in psychology at Saint Marys College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She serves as a spiritual adviser for those in the process of divorce while also conducting workshops and retreats on spiritual, psychological and moral development.