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Healing During and After Divorce: Body, Mind, & Nervous System

Divorce isn't just emotional — it's physiological. In this solo episode, Leslie walks you through whole-person healing → theloomlife.com

Work with Leslie:

→ THROUGH (8-week divorce coaching program): theloomlife.com/through

→ Mindful Untangling Community: theloomlife.com/community

→ Book a 90-minute Power Session or Discovery Call: theloomlife.com

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When clients first come to work with Leslie through divorce or a difficult breakup, they expect strategy sessions about their ex and the loss of the marriage. What surprises almost every one of them is that the real work — the work that determines whether they walk out grounded or limp out depleted — happens somewhere they didn't expect: in the body.

Divorce is not primarily a legal event. It is not primarily an emotional event. It's a sustained physiological event your nervous system was never designed to carry for months or years. In this episode, Leslie pulls back the curtain on what she actually works on with clients — and why these are the conversations that change the outcome of a divorce, not just the experience of it.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Why divorce is a physiological event — and what chronic cortisol does to your sleep, digestion, memory, and decision-making

• The sleep, nutrition, and movement foundation that everything else stands on

• Why pleasure and self-pleasure are nervous system co-regulation — not a distraction from healing

• The honest question to ask yourself before you start dating again

• Monkey branching: what it really means when your ex moves on quickly (and why it's not about you)

• Why starting a new hobby literally rewires the brain during a rumination event

• How to prepare for hard days — court dates, custody exchanges, first holidays — like an athlete prepares for competition

This episode is for anyone going through a divorce or breakup, anyone preparing for one, and anyone who loves someone walking through it. It's for men. It's for women. It's for the friend in your group chat who is barely holding on.

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

• OMG Yes (women's pleasure education): omgyes.com

• Blood work, hormone testing, and supplement support — talk to your own practitioner

WORK WITH LESLIE

• THROUGH — the 8-week divorce coaching program (small group or 1:1): theloomlife.com/through

• Mindful Untangling — the divorce & breakup recovery community: theloomlife.com/community

• 1:1 Coaching, 90-minute Power Sessions, and Discovery Calls: theloomlife.com

• Therapy with Leslie (EMDR, IFS, trauma): loomlifetherapy.com

• Leslie's main site: leslieellenmathews.com

• Email: leslie@theloomlife.com

FOLLOW & CONNECT

• Instagram: @the.loom.life

• TikTok: @leslieellenmathews

• Podcast: Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity — wherever you listen

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ABOUT LESLIE

Leslie Mathews is a former attorney turned therapist and divorce coach, the founder of The Loom Life, and the host of Pulling Threads, Weaving Authenticity. Her work supports people moving through divorce, breakup, and post-divorce transformation with a whole-person approach: body, nervous system, mind, and identity.

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