Starting Over After Trauma: Healing Functional Seizures, Limiting Beliefs, and Life After Divorce

In today’s episode of Bent Not Broken, Coach Deborah explores a powerful starting over after trauma story with Samantha Mandell, whose journey through functional seizures (PNES) became a profound path toward healing after heartbreak, rebuilding identity, and reclaiming life.Samantha shares how her life-altering diagnosis led her to Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)—a modality that accelerates emotional recovery, helps release limiting beliefs, heals broken relationships, and restores confidence in recovery. Her transformation inspired her to begin starting a podcast, step into her purpose, and help women navigate divorce healing, gaslighting recovery, and post-divorce life with compassion and courage.In This Episode, You’ll Learn About:How unresolved trauma can show up as functional seizuresWhy the body holds trauma and how RTT shifts the subconscious for post-divorce healingHow limiting beliefs formed in childhood affect life after divorce, dating, identity, and confidenceThe role of perfectionism in keeping women stuck in broken relationshipsHow RTT helps rebuild worthiness, trust, and confidence after divorceWhat real transformation looks like when creating new beginnings after divorceSamantha also shares lightning-round insights on navigating separation, establishing boundaries, finding post-divorce confidence, and remembering that even in hard circumstances, you are stronger than the pain.This episode is a powerful guide for anyone seeking divorce recovery, divorce empowerment, healing after separation, or rebuilding identity after divorce—and a reminder that you are never broken, only becoming.Connect with Samantha:SweetSoulAndWellness.comReady to rebuild your life after divorce?Join Coach Deborah’s Divorce Support Recovery Workshop on Eventbrite—your next step toward boldness and empowerment, emotional healing, and celebrating victories as you begin starting over with confidence.Enjoyed this episode of Bent Not Broken: Life After Divorce with Deborah Griffiths?Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so more people searching for life after divorce, divorce recovery, co-parenting, dating after divorce, and healing from gaslighting can discover this empowering podcast. Every review helps others find hope, inspiration, and practical tools for thriving after divorce.Explore more resources: Visit BrokenToBoldness.com for coaching, workshops, and guidance on divorce recovery and life transitions.Follow Deborah Griffiths for daily empowerment and support:Instagram: @BrokenToBoldnessFacebook: Broken to BoldnessLinkedIn: Broken to BoldnessDivorce Recovery Workshop: Click here to register.Remember: divorce may bend you, but it does not break you. You are stronger than you think, and your bold new chapter starts now. Disclaimer: The commentary and opinions available on this podcast are for informational and entertainment purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal or psychological advice. You should contact an attorney, coach, or therapist in your state to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem.