🔥 Episode 79: Show Up Anyway: How to Navigate Your Ex and His New Partner at Family Events After Divorce

One of the hardest situations divorced women face is showing up to a family event — a wedding, a graduation, a birthday party — when your ex is going to be there with his new girlfriend, fiancée or wife. The anxiety starts before you even walk in the door. And for many women, the answer is simply: don't go.But avoidance isn't healing. In this episode of Better Because of Divorce, host and certified divorce life coach Julie Steed shares a raw, personal story from a recent family wedding and breaks down exactly how she navigated it with her dignity, her grace, and her sense of self fully intact.Because here's what Julie wants every divorced woman to hear: when you choose not to show up, she is still controlling your life. You deserve to be in the room. You deserve to take up space in your own family's life. And you can learn how to do that, even when it's hard. Especially when it's hard.If you've been skipping family events, dreading co-parenting milestones, or letting fear of running into your ex's new woman keep you from living your life, this episode will give you the tools, the mindset, and the permission to show up anyway.You don't do this by being the person you've always been. You are somebody new now. And somebody new has to be willing to do things she has never done before. Join me for my free masterclass — Afraid You'll Be Alone Forever?Register here: 👉 Afraid You'll Be Alone Forever? The Masterclass.About Julie:After 23 years of marriage and a betrayal she never saw coming, Julie  found herself starting over from scratch. No roadmap. No guarantee it would be okay. Just the decision that her life was worth rebuilding.Julie is now a Certified Life Coach, a Health and Wellness Coach, and founder of the FIERCE Sisterhood — a transformative community for divorced women ready to rebuild their lives from the inside out. She hosts the Better Because of Divorce podcast because she believes divorced women deserve more than surface-level positivity. They deserve real, lasting transformation.She knows what it costs to start over. And she knows what's possible on the other side.Connect with Julie:🔥 For more information about the FIERCE Sisterhood: Email SISTERHOOD to [email protected]🎤 Listen to Better Because of Divorce: Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts💬 Join the private Facebook community: Find us on Facebook here🌐 Learn more: juliesteed.comThis podcast provides information only, and does not provide any financial, legal, medical or psychological s...