In The Divorce Hacker’s Guide to Untying the Knot: What Every Woman Needs to Know about Finances, Child Custody, Lawyers, and Planning Ahead, family law attorney Ann Grant presents the practical information every woman needs to protect herself as she navigates through a divorce. Feelings of loss, grief, and rage are common during this time. But one of the most debilitating feelings experienced by women going through divorce is paralyzing impotence. Readers learn how to take back their power and rights concerning finances, home, children, and work life. With compassion, insight, and tough-minded realism, Grant breaks down the divorce process and provides step-by-step assessments and checklists, as well as inspiring stories of successful lives post-divorce. Her goal is to give readers insider information that will not only make their divorce “successful” but also establish their life firmly and confidently on a positive, fresh new standing.

Together with her fiancé, Dr. John Waddell, Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, a.k.a. SARK, coauthored Succulent Wild Love about relationship liberation, offering guidance and wisdom from the wonderful and playful life they lived together as a couple. Dr. Waddell died shortly after their book was published, and this week on the New World Now podcast, SARK sits down with host Kim Corbin to share how her practice of deeply grieving while also wildly living — which work together, just like a bird’s wings — has allowed her to feel more love more often while navigating the loss of her fiancé.

How does one regain confidence and optimism about love after a breakup? After her own relationship ended, author and counselor Rebekah Freedom McClaskey developed and practiced a series of small, step-by-step actions that ultimately helped her heal her heart and live in harmony with her destiny. 

In Breakup Rehab: Creating the Love You Want, Rebekah meets readers in their states of grief or resignation and walks them through twelve steps to forgiveness and self-responsibility, self-compassion and self-awareness, power and purpose. We hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from the book.