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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Tammy Scarlett didn't go through one hard thing. She went through several: breast cancer, divorce, a capsule rupture from her implants that left her sicker than the cancer ever had, all within a few years of each other. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she realized they weren't separate events. They were the same message, delivered louder each time. She just wasn't home enough to hear it. Tammy is the founder of the Women's Wellness Network and a student of holistic health whose work...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:title>Your Divorce Was Not a Coincidence with Sara Fishkin</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The day Sara Fishkin stood in her shower, everything had fallen apart. Her marriage was over. And in that moment, instead of collapsing further into it, something shifted. She decided to stop being the victim of her story and get curious about what was in it for her. What she found changed everything, including what she does now. Sara is a transformational mindset and prosperity coach whose work is built on one core idea: your subconscious patterns, the ones you picked up in childhood, the on...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Louise was ready to leave her marriage before she even walked down the aisle. Fear kept her there for years. Fear of being alone, of breaking up her family, of what people would think. The day her husband finally moved out, she drove her kids to nursery school and noticed something she hadn't felt in years: a real smile. Not a performance. The actual thing. That moment set off twenty years of becoming from personal trainer, to studio owner, to Certified High Performance and Somatic coach, and...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Grief doesn't wait for the divorce to be final. For many women, it starts long before the papers are signed, sometimes before the decision is even spoken out loud. In this episode, I'm walking you through the five stages of grief after divorce: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But here's what I want you to know going in: the process is not linear. You'll move forward, loop back, and sometimes sit in two stages at the same time. That's not you doing it wrong. That's just ...]]></itunes:summary>
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