Phoenix Live: A Weekly Divorce Support Group.

This week's divorce support group topic:

Finding Your Way Back to Happy (Even Now)

When you're in the thick of divorce, "just be happy" can feel almost insulting. The good news is that happiness isn't a switch you flip or a mood you fake — it's something you can build, even now, and there's real research on how.

First, an honest truth this session doesn't skip: you can't reach for the good feelings while the hard ones sit unfelt underneath. The grief and anger have to move before there's room for peace and joy. So we start there — not by pretending you're fine, but by clearing space for happiness to actually land.

From there we look at what genuinely makes people happier — and it's not pleasure, which is fleeting (the chocolate cake's gone in a minute). It's enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose: the things you invest real time and energy in, the connections that remind you you're part of something bigger. Because underneath so much of the pain right now is loneliness — the sense of doing this alone — and one of the simplest antidotes is a room full of people who understand.

You'll leave with a clearer, more realistic picture of how happiness actually works — and a few small, doable things to start aiming yourself back toward it. Not all at once. Just a little, starting now.

Day: Every Tuesday night

Time:

8pm Eastern

7pm Central

6pm Mountain

5pm Pacific