Have you ever grieved someone who’s still alive? Or lost yourself so completely inside a relationship that when it ended, you didn’t even know who you were anymore?

In this episode, I’m sitting down with the incredible Jess Prudhomme—podcaster and host of The Great Detour—to talk about one of the most misunderstood forms of grief out there: divorce grief and identity loss.

Jess married her high school sweetheart at 17. By 35, her marriage was over—and so was the version of herself she’d built around it. What followed was a deeply honest reckoning with grief, self-worth, and what it actually means to come home to yourself.

In this episode, we get into:
✨ What disenfranchised grief is and why divorce grief is so often dismissed
✨ Grieving a living person , and the unique pain of losing someone who’s still here
✨ Losing your identity, your future plans, and the life you thought you’d have
✨ How therapy, journaling, and solitude became part of Jess’s healing
✨ Leaving a 10-year career to take a sabbatical and rebuild from the inside out
✨ Solo travel as a tool for healing
✨ How a trip abroad sparked the creation of The Great Detour podcast
✨ Finding alignment in friendships, career, and self after major loss
✨ Why the losses that break us open can also bring us home to ourselves

Whether you’re navigating a divorce, the end of a relationship, a career loss, or any kind of identity shift, this episode is going to make you feel deeply seen.

Connect with Jess

🔗 www.thegreatdetour.com
🔗 https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdetour/


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📖 Life Beyond Grief Substack: https://taraaccardo.substack.com/

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