Bitter or Better: Real Stories of Divorce and Resilience
Bitter or Better is a raw and real podcast about the messy middle of divorce— the quiet strength you lean into to get through the toughest days, the resilience and confidence you build along the way, and the ways you learn to rebuild a life that’s your own. Hosted by an accomplished marketer, National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and aspiring author writing her first novel about her own traumatic divorce experience, Abby England has been through it all herself. This show isn’t about legal advice or therapy jargon; it’s about real people - everyday folks navigating love lost, co-parenting chaos, financial fallout, and finding their way back to themselves. Each episode features unfiltered conversations with people who’ve lived through the heartbreak of divorce—what broke down in their marriages, how they survived the storm, the tools that helped, and their core values they rediscovered along the way. This isn’t a highlight reel—it’s a safe space for the stories that are too often whispered, showing that while divorce can break you, it can also build you into someone stronger, wiser, and, yes, even better.
Bitter or Better: Real Stories of Divorce and Resilience
Latest Episodes
Ep. 13 - Foreign Land, Foreign Healing: Navigating MS And Isolation
Navigating marriage when critical information is kept in the dark drains every ounce of your energy, leaving you second-guessing your own reality. Moving across the globe and facing a chronic illness diagnosis only amplifies that isolation, for...
Ep. 12 - Red Flags: Surviving the Slow Death of a Marriage
Denying reality is the quickest way to lose yourself. When you spend years desperately hammering square pegs into round holes, the eventual crash is inevitable. Host Abby England sits down with Leslie to discuss the painful unraveling of her lo...
Ep. 11 - Rebuild Your Confidence: Life After Infidelity and Job Loss
Isolation is a silent profit leak for your mental health when going through a major life upheaval. For men especially, the cultural pressure to suppress emotion during a crisis creates a heavy burden that delays actual recovery. Host Abby Engla...
Ep. 10 - From Contempt to Freedom: Rebuilding Life After 24 Years of Marriage
The end of a long-term marriage is rarely a sudden explosion; more often, it is a slow, quiet accumulation of unexpressed resentments that eventually hardens into contempt. In this episode, we sit down with Stacey, a business owner and mother w...
Ep. 9 - Radical Empathy: Co-Parenting Without the Drama
Staying in a marriage for the sake of the kids often sounds like the noble path, but white-knuckling through a connection-less partnership eventually drains the life force out of everyone involved. When the internal cost of "staying" outweighs ...