317. Divorce Co-Parenting Anxiety: Why Being the Bigger Person Is Killing Your Healing (And What to Do Instead)

You keep it together.
Calm texts. Steady schedules. Polite handoffs.
But every time his car pulls up, your body betrays you: heart races, chest tightens, breath goes shallow.
That’s not just “leftover divorce stuff.” That’s anxiety living in your nervous system—and it’s been quietly growing every time you swallow the unfairness to stay the “bigger person.”

He’s got the new life.
You’re carrying the kids’ big feelings, the invisible load, the resentment no one thanks you for.
And the more you perform “fine” for everyone else, the more your own healing slips through your fingers.

Why does being the bigger person feel like slow self-betrayal?
Why does the anxiety keep coming back even when you’ve done “all the work”?
And what if the real shift isn’t more boundaries or better scripts… but something deeper that finally lets your body and spirit exhale?

In this episode, we go straight into:

• The hidden way “bigger person” energy keeps your nervous system braced
• How resentment and unfairness get stored somatically—and why that blocks real repair
• The quiet spiritual wound his moving-on keeps poking
• And the integrative path out that most people never talk about

You’ll get the truth that lands in your chest… and the curiosity to find out what “instead” actually feels like in your body.

If every handoff still leaves you raw, this is the episode that stops the performance and starts the real release.

Send me a DM and tell us: What’s the moment being the “bigger person” hurt the most? We read every one.

You don’t have to keep carrying it alone, love.
Press play. Your body’s been waiting.

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A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, manifesting, the impact of different attachment styles and codependency, setting healthy boundaries, energy healing with homeopathy, managing the nervous system during divorce depression, understanding the stages of divorce grief, and using the Law of Attraction and EMDR therapy in the process of building your confidence, forgiveness and letting go.

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