Healing from Parents’ Divorce feat. Sarah Hart

One million children experience their parents’ divorce each year. Two-thirds of them who were regularly attending a Church or synagogue at the time report that no one reached out to them at that time. Parents’ divorce increases their children’s chance of divorce by 40%. And barely any Catholic dioceses have an outreach for it.

My friend Sarah Hart travels to speak at healing retreats and blogs with the ministry Life-Giving Wounds, one of the few Catholic ministry outreaches to adult children of divorced parents. As a graduate of the JPII Institute for Marriage and Family, and herself a child of divorced parents, Sarah has helped many people give voice to their pain and find healing. If you or someone you love has lived through the trauma of parental divorce, this discussion is for you.

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Topics Discussed

• Why divorce is a “primal wound,” and the healing power of discovering your deeper God-given identity
• Healing boundaries and learning to form new intimate relationships
• How wounds can become life-giving resources and help heal others in turn
• Forgiveness that sticks: going beyond the initial retreat weekend to live forgiveness

Resources

• Life-Giving Wounds website:
  Blog, book lists, upcoming events (including online Holiday Support Group talks on November 19 and December 17)
• Pontifical Institute of John Paul II for Studies on Marriage and Family 
• Upcoming Diocese of Arlington Healing Retreat 
• Books: Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt
• Primal Loss: The Now Adult Children of Divorce Speak by Leila Miller
• The Children of Divorce, The Loss of Family as a Loss of Being by Andrew Root
• Torn Asunder: The Myth of the Good Divorce, and the Recovery of Origins by Margaret McCarthy
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Cloud and Townsend
• Sarah Hart’s email: sarah.dan.hart@gmail.com

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