You Can Get Over Divorce

Few events in life are more traumatic than divorce. Families are torn apart, lives are disrupted, and wounds linger long after the final papers are signed. The future that once appeared so bright now looms like a dark cloud. You wonder if you'll ever get over the hurt, the grief, the anger. You wonder if you can ever love again.


You can.


In You Can Get Over Divorce, Dr. Pat Hudson gives you her unique, seven-step program that has helped thousands of people just like you come to terms with divorce and get on with their lives. Developed in response to the painful—and public—breakup of her own marriage, Dr. Hudson's remarkable program actually speeds the healing process. You learn how to steer clear of the emotional traps posed by anger, shame, fear, and self-pity and create a new life for yourself. You learn how to get from despair to hope. You learn how to leave the past behind.


Using stories of other people's journeys from pain to restoration and the insight gained from her own experience, Dr. Hudson leads you through each of her seven proven steps to getting over divorce:
• Acquire a sense of closure
• Rehabilitate your dreams of the future
• Create rituals to honor the change in your life
• Take a vacation from your problem
• Change the way you think about divorce
• Promote healing through positive action
• Discover the joy in giving of yourself


Whether suffering from the end of a marriage or the break-up of a long-term romance, you'll find the life-changing advice in this book to be invaluable.


About the Author

Pat Hudson, Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist with over 22 years of experience in brief solution-oriented psychotherapy with couples and women. She was the executive director of the Hudson Center for Brief Therapy in Omaha, Nebraska, for 23 years, and has authored many successful self-help titles, including Stop Blaming, Start Loving and Love Is a Verb. She currently resides in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.