7 Steps to a Spiritual Divorce

​When you're going through a divorce, it can feel like the entire world is collapsing around you. Everything you thought was stable and permanent is suddenly up in the air, and it feels like you'll never find your feet again. 
 
But it's important to remember that there is life after divorce. You may not be able to see it right now, but with time and patience, you will find peace. 
 
It won't be the same as before - your life will be completely different - but that doesn't mean it won't be good. You will eventually learn to love yourself again and find happiness in your new life. 
 
So don't give up hope; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Here are 7 steps to get you to the light faster.
 
7 steps to a spiritual divorce:

1. Honor the journey. Create a ceremony that honors the journey you took together. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. There was a time, even if just one, when you shared good feelings, energy, truth, and love. Honor that. 
2. Honor the ending. Create a ceremony that closes the doors. Creatively cut the ties that connect you. Whether that’s literal ribbons and scissors, moving out, or changing your name, however it feels right for you, cut the ties energetically even if you still need to communicate with your partner. It will release them and, more importantly, you.
3. Be willing to walk into the shadows. Looking into our shadow places can be difficult, but there will be no growth without it. Be radically honest with yourself, you won’t change a pattern if you don’t see it. Explore your shadow layers on the earthly level and the cosmic level. Bring a guide with you, you’ll be safe.
4. Surrender. Surrendering is not giving up, it is letting go of trying to control the outcome. Ask your guides to show you the way. You don’t have to end this alone. Ask for help from higher up. Surrender control. Surrender to the wisdom that something bigger is unfolding in your life.  
5. Forgive. Forgive everyone involved. You, your partner, the situation that caused the dissolution of care, trust, and love. Forgiveness is freedom. Do it genuinely and thoroughly until you feel compassion for all involved. 
6. Envision your future. Do a journey into your heart and ask what it needs now and what it deserves going forward. Ask what it most desires for the future. Ask for the moon and stars, then end the journey with “may this or something even greater be so.” When working with the future, you never want to limit potentialities. Spirit might have a plan greater than you can envision.
7. Bless it all. Bless the mess, pain, joy and celebration. Give blessings to the house, the land, your ancestors, the wind, and rain. Not spiritually by-passing blessing, I mean really bless everything. With a heart genuinely filled with gratitude for the day, for this life and teaching, you will vibrate at a level that attracts blessings back. Do it not to attract, but to feed your soul. Because you need it now.