Helen Russell
Helen Russell
Season 4 #6 Laura Friedman Williams
Season 4 #6 Laura Friedman Williams
Season 4 #6 Laura Friedman Williams
Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Join Helen Russell as she chats with Laura Friedman Williams about overcoming divorce, processing pain, and finding resilience in life.
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Helen Russell
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Mindfulness & Emotional Wellbeing
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Sexual Empowerment & Identity
Healing Relationships
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Get the buttons here!Laura Friedman Williams: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce
I think you just that saying like the only way out is through, I love that saying so much and I think that I'm really in it now.
What do you do when the life you’ve known for nearly three decades crumbles? Laura Friedman Williams faced this exact question when her husband of 27 years fell in love with someone else. In this heartfelt episode of 'How To Be Sad with Helen Russell', Laura shares her journey from devastation to rediscovery. After finding out about her husband's affair, Laura spent months just trying to get through each day, caring for her children and grappling with her own misery.
She describes feeling like she had to choose between dying or learning to live again. Laura chose life. As an eternal optimist, she learned to sit with her pain and slowly rebuild her world. Laura talks candidly about feeling invisible, losing the future she had planned, and the shame that often accompanies such profound personal loss. She also delves into what it means to grieve and to be 'good enough' in the aftermath of a shattered marriage.
But it's not all doom and gloom. Laura brings a refreshing honesty to the conversation about starting over, including the awkward but sometimes humorous world of dating after divorce – or as she calls it, the 'sex treadmill'. This episode is a raw and real exploration of how one woman turned her life around after heartbreak. It's a must-listen for anyone who’s ever felt lost and is searching for a way to find themselves again.