10 best podcasts for people going through divorce

If your brain keeps snagging on the financial side of things, this is the show you queue up first. Hosted by a certified financial planner who has worked through hundreds of divorce cases, Divorce and Your Money is relentlessly practical. Episodes cover asset division, what happens to your retirement accounts, how to read a QDRO, and why your credit score is about to become your most important relationship. It is not glamorous material, but it is the stuff that will keep you up at night if you do not understand it, and it will feel significantly less terrifying once you do. Each episode is short, usually under twenty minutes, which means you can actually absorb the information instead of zoning out halfway through. The host has a gift for translating legal and financial language into plain sentences. You do not need a law degree or a finance background. You need about fifteen minutes and a notepad. Start with the episodes on protecting yourself financially before the divorce is final. Those are the ones people say they wish they had found sooner.

Kate Anthony built this show for women who feel like the floor just dropped out. But the content is genuinely useful regardless of gender: she interviews therapists, attorneys, financial advisors, and people who have been through high-conflict divorces, custody disputes, and co-parenting arrangements that looked impossible on paper. What makes this show stand out is that Kate does not pretend divorce is something you get over quickly or cleanly. She is specifically good on the subject of attachment, and several episodes touch on how your attachment style shapes what you are experiencing right now. Research consistently shows that how fast you reorganize your sense of self after a divorce is partly a function of your attachment patterns, not simply your willpower. Hearing that framed out loud by someone who is not judging you for it is genuinely useful. If you have kids in the picture, her episodes on communicating with a difficult co-parent are worth a dedicated listen. And if you are also thinking about what this is doing to your children, our piece on affirmations for parents going through divorce has some grounding language for those harder moments.

This show centers the experiences of Black women going through divorce, which makes it one of the more culturally specific and therefore more honest shows on this list. What Kris Marsh does exceptionally well is hold space for the social dimension of divorce, the way family opinions show up, the way church communities respond, the way professional identity and personal identity get tangled together when a marriage ends. If you have ever felt like the divorce podcasts you found were written for a very particular kind of woman in a very particular kind of life, this one is a correction. The conversations here are warm and direct and often funny in that way where you laugh and then immediately feel something crack open underneath the laugh. Episodes vary in length and format, some are solo, some are interviews, which keeps the feed from feeling repetitive. Start with any episode that references community or family pressure and see if it lands.

Untangle is produced by the Meditation Studio app, and its focus is on the mental and emotional side of big life changes, including divorce, grief, and starting over. The episodes are short and carefully paced, which makes them useful during moments when your attention span is genuinely not functioning at full capacity. That is not a character flaw. It is what stress does to the brain. The show draws on research-backed approaches to processing difficult emotions, and several episodes touch on the way self-concept, your internal sense of who you actually are, affects how you move through periods of rupture. Research suggests that people who have a clearer sense of their own identity before a marriage ends tend to find the reorganization process less destabilizing. If you feel like you lost yourself somewhere in the marriage, Untangle gives you a gentle way back in. It is also a useful show to have on hand for the moments when you want something thoughtful but are not ready for something intense.

This one is pure information, and sometimes pure information is exactly what you need. The Liz Library goes deep on family law topics including custody arrangements, parental alienation, how courts actually evaluate the best interests of the child standard, and what your rights look like depending on your state. It is dense and occasionally dry, but if you are heading into a contested divorce or any kind of custody dispute, the episodes here will make you a more informed participant in your own legal process. Being informed is not the same as being your own lawyer, but it means you will ask better questions when you sit down with an attorney and you will not be blindsided by terminology that should have been explained to you weeks ago. Think of it as homework. Unpleasant, necessary, ultimately worth doing. Keep a notes app open while you listen.

Based loosely on the work from the classic book of the same name, this podcast walks through the emotional stages that commonly follow a marriage ending. There is something settling about having a framework, not because frameworks are perfect, but because when you are in the middle of something this disorienting, having language for what you are experiencing makes it feel less like chaos and more like a process. Episodes cover grief, anger, the strange specific loneliness of sleeping alone when you did not used to, and the slow return of something like a sense of self. The host is a therapist and brings a clinical steadiness to even the messier conversations. One thing this show handles unusually well is the liminal period, that stretch where you are not who you were in the marriage and not yet sure who you are going to be. Research on career and identity transitions frames this liminal phase as the actual mechanism of change, not a problem to be solved but the work itself. That framing applies to divorce too, and this show understands it.

Christine Hassler has been running this show for years, and the format is simple: people write in with their actual questions and she works through them live on air. The topics range from breakups to divorce to the particular grief of realizing a relationship was not what you thought it was. What you get from this show is the feeling of sitting in on a real conversation, not a polished narrative with a tidy ending. The callers ask things you might be embarrassed to ask, and the answers are usually more nuanced than you expect. Christine is good on the subject of self-knowledge and partner selection, which is the kind of thing that feels too soon to think about right now but which research consistently supports as important groundwork. Studies on self-concept clarity suggest that knowing yourself well is not a side project for later, it is the prerequisite for making a different kind of choice next time. You do not have to be thinking about next time yet. But it is there when you are.

This one is not specifically a divorce podcast, and that is actually the point. Paul Gilmartin has been interviewing comedians, artists, and regular people about their mental health experiences for over a decade, and the result is one of the most humanizing archives of what it actually feels like to struggle. When you are going through a divorce, you are often dealing with grief and dislocation and the specific exhaustion of feeling like you should be further along by now. Hearing people talk honestly about the gap between how things look from the outside and how they feel on the inside is useful in a way that targeted advice sometimes is not. It reminds you that feeling stuck, feeling lost, feeling like you are not who you were and not yet sure who you are, is not a sign that something is wrong with you. It is a sign that something hard is happening. There is a meaningful difference. The episodes are long, often over an hour, and the conversations go places you would not expect.

Nora McInerny made this show because she was tired of answering the question of how she was doing with fine. After losing her husband and her father within weeks of each other, she started collecting stories from people going through things that do not have easy answers. Divorce comes up, grief comes up, the way life does not pause for you to catch your breath comes up constantly. The show is funny and sad in alternating measures, sometimes in the same sentence, which is an accurate description of what the experience of loss actually feels like. What Nora does well is resist resolution. She does not tie things up. She does not suggest that if you do the right things, you will arrive somewhere pain-free. She just keeps asking people to tell the truth about what is hard, and they keep doing it, and somehow that is enormously comforting. You will listen to an episode and feel less like a person with a problem and more like a person who is going through something that other people have also gone through.

Dear Sugars is technically a literary advice show, which sounds nothing like what you would search for right now, and yet it belongs on this list. Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond answer letters from listeners about love, loss, infidelity, grief, regret, and all the complicated ways people hurt each other and try to do better. The letters about marriage endings and the advice that follows are some of the most carefully considered things you will find in podcast form. The show is not clinical, it is literary, but that means it treats you like an intelligent person capable of sitting with complexity rather than someone who needs a checklist. Research on secure attachment consistently shows that genuine self-knowledge, the ability to sit with your own interior experience without needing to immediately fix it, is foundational to being okay in the long run. Dear Sugars is not a therapy show, but it practices something that looks a lot like that. Start with any episode on marriage or infidelity and give it twenty minutes before you decide it is not for you.