Healing doesn’t always look like putting the pieces of your old life back together. Sometimes, it’s allowing God to meet you right in the middle of the pain and begin creating something new.

In this episode of In the Middle, Jennie explores the healing season that follows the shattering of betrayal, separation, and divorce. She shares how healing requires us to slow down, acknowledge what hurts, process our emotions, recognize the lies we may have begun believing, and replace them with the truth of who God says we are.

Healing is not about rushing to “get over it” or pretending everything is okay. It is about allowing God into the broken places, learning to surrender what we cannot control, practicing forgiveness, and trusting that our suffering does not get the final word.

If you are somewhere between the life you thought you would have and the life God is rebuilding, this episode is a reminder that you do not have to have everything figured out. God will meet you right there—in the middle—and gently lead you toward healing, restoration, and ultimately, flourishing.

In the Middle: Divorce Healing for Catholic Women ·

“Do you not understand that my whole life just broke apart?”

That’s what Jennie wanted to say to the world while it kept moving: the emails, the groceries, the demands of ordinary life. If you’re a Catholic woman grieving a divorce, you know the feeling. Your marriage has ended for whatever reason and you find your life shattered into a million pieces. It is a death but a different kind of sadness and grief. There’s no funeral, no casseroles at the door, and no ritual for saying goodbye. Sometimes the person you’re grieving is still alive.

In this episode, Jennie doesn’t hurry towards a happy ending. She shares her journey in the shattering, the first and hardest phase of healing after divorce, and shares what it looked like at the end of her own 35-year marriage:

• The journal prayers she wrote at her lowest: “I know that joy comes from You, Lord, but I don’t feel it right now.”
• The Christmas she could only manage a tree and stockings
• The sleepless nights when she couldn’t pray the rosary and could only hold the beads and whisper, “Jesus”

What you’ll learn

• Why divorce grief feels like a death, and why it’s so confusing
• How to pray when you can’t find the words
• The movements of shattering: shock, trauma, trying to fix it, acceptance and the first flickers of hope
• Clean pain vs. dirty pain: how to stop piling shame (“It’s my fault. I’m not enough.”) on top of real loss
• A simple question for when a trigger hits: What do I actually know to be true?
• Why your Catholic faith gives you Good Friday before Easter, and permission to grieve

You don’t have to turn your ashes into beauty today. You don’t need the whole map. You only need the next faithful step.

When Life Doesn't Turn Out the Way You Expected: Welcome to In the Middle

The person you imagined beside you on the front porch has changed. The family, the holidays, even the way you see yourself may look nothing like you planned. If you're a Catholic woman walking through betrayal, separation or divorce, this episode is for you.

After 35 years of marriage, Jennie's life changed in ways she never imagined. In this deeply personal episode, she shares why Catholic Moms in the Middle is becoming In the Middle: Divorce Healing for Catholic Women, and why she believes God has been leading her here.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why divorce can feel so lonely, even when you're surrounded by people who love you
• The questions so many Catholic women carry quietly into the pew: Is God upset with me? Do I still belong? How do I forgive?
• The gap Jennie sees in the Church, and why women need a place that doesn't minimize marriage or their suffering
• The prayer that changed everything: "God, please do not waste this."
• How to choose the legacy this chapter of your story will leave behind
• Why you don't need the rest of your life figured out, just your next faithful step

"You do not need to know what your life looks like five years from now. Sometimes you simply need to ask, 'What is my next faithful step?' and then take it."

Wherever you are in your story, Jennie will meet you in the middle.

You don't have to walk this road alone.
Join Jennie's free monthly gathering on Zoom for Catholic women walking through divorce, an evening of teaching, prayer and real connection:
https://www.jennieguinnlifecoach.com/monthly-gatherings

Find more encouragement and resources at inthemiddlehealing.com