Flourishing After Adversity

Laura Mangum Broome
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If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you. Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity, this weekly show is your go-to resource for overcoming life’s toughest challenges with hope, courage, and clarity. Each episode dives into real-life strategies for emotional healing, building resilience, managing mindset, navigating unexpected change, and rediscovering your strength after adversity.  Whether you're facing the aftermath of divorce, struggling to move forward after loss, or starting over later in life, you’ll find practical tools and encouragement to help you grow—not just go—through what you’ve been through. If you're searching for inspiration, resilience coaching tips, or mental health support for difficult seasons, hit play and start flourishing after adversity. You've got this!

  1. 5d ago

    S2:E42 How to Rebuild Your Life After Betrayal, Loss, or Injustice

    Rebuilding After Betrayal, Loss, or Injustice: Accept Reality and Move Forward Host Laura Mangum Broome introduces an episode on rebuilding life after betrayal, loss, or injustice caused by someone else’s choices, emphasizing that acceptance means acknowledging reality—not approving what happened—and that you can move forward without waiting for apologies or resolution. Using a collapsed-bridge metaphor, she describes how people get stuck by waiting for others to make things right, replaying the past for a different ending, or hoping life returns to what it was.  She offers three steps: acknowledge what happened and grieve the gap between expectations and current circumstances; focus on what you can control or influence versus what’s outside your control and take one small action; and reconnect with values, strengths, and a six-month direction. She notes healing is nonlinear, suggests a weekly “Five-Minute Progress Check,” mentions professional help if distress disrupts functioning, and shares a free guide, “Reframe the Spiral.” 00:00 When Life Feels Unfair 00:33 Welcome and Episode Roadmap 01:56 Free Guide  02:26 The Collapsed Bridge Metaphor 04:11 Three Ways We Get Stuck 06:20 Radical Acceptance Explained 07:54 Step One Face Reality 10:19 Step Two Control and Influence 13:25 Step Three Choose New Direction 15:50 When There Is No Closure 17:23 Rebuild Confidence Weekly Check 18:59 Final Recap and Next Step 20:29 Closing Bridge and Farewell Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeMy Book: Flourishing After Adversity: A 3-Step Action Plan to Transform Pain Into Purpose and Embrace Joy Again https://a.co/d/06XoGiNdMove Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday's Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a Free 15-Minute Clarity Call With Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  2. Oct 14

    S2:E41 Finding Meaning in a Future You Never Expected

    Finding Meaning in a Future You Never Expected Laura Mangum Broome hosts the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and explores how to find happiness, purpose, and joy when life changes through divorce, widowhood, retirement, empty nest, health crises, or other losses. She explains that disappointment often comes from comparing the present with an expected future, and that happiness can be redefined over time, including through post-traumatic growth.  Drawing on her own experiences (bilateral breast cancer, her son’s suicide, losing a parent, a heart transplant, and a sudden divorce), she shares five practical approaches: question old pictures of happiness and identify the deeper values behind them; notice meaning in ordinary days; recognize unexpected roles that reveal strengths; give new experiences a chance with curiosity; and create a new definition of a life well-lived using guiding words and goals. She emphasizes that meaning after adversity doesn’t require viewing pain as necessary and notes a free guide on reframing negative thoughts. 00:00 When Plans Collapse 00:26 Welcome And Episode Roadmap 01:43 Free Guide Reframe The Spiral 02:11 Grieving The Future You Expected 03:46 Redefining Happiness Over Time 06:31 Stop Comparing To The Past 08:25 Five Ways To Find Meaning 08:39 Step One Rethink Happiness 10:30 Step Two Meaning In Ordinary Days 12:26 Step Three Unexpected Roles 14:14 Step Four Try New Experiences 16:06 Step Five Life Well Lived 18:33 Joy And Sorrow Together 20:15 Recap Reflection And Next Steps 22:36 Closing Subscribe And Review Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeMy Book: Flourishing After Adversity: A 3-Step Action Plan to Transform Pain Into Purpose and Embrace Joy Again: https://a.co/d/06XoGiNd Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  3. Oct 7

    S2:E40 How to Stop Seeking Validation From Others and Build a New Path Reflecting Your Values

    Stop Seeking Approval: Rebuilding Self-Trust and Self-Worth After Adversity Host Laura Mangum Broome welcomes listeners to the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and shares a free resource, “Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day.” She explores validation after major life changes, distinguishing healthy encouragement from dependence on others’ approval, and explains how adversity can shake identity and self-worth.  The episode offers six steps to regain self-trust: accept some people may never validate you, stop trying to manage others’ opinions, clarify what matters most to you now (values as a compass), weigh whose opinions have “skin in the game,” rebuild confidence through small values-based decisions, and recognize signs of over-seeking validation. A practical exercise asks listeners to write: what is true, what is mine to control, and what matters most to me now, then take weekly actions aligned with top values. 00:00 Trust Yourself Again 00:13 Welcome 00:37 Free Resource 01:06 Validation After Change 02:21 Encouragement vs Dependence 03:19 Adversity Shakes Identity 04:30 Signs You Seek Permission 06:36 Self Worth Beyond Approval 07:32 Six Steps Overview 07:44 Step 1 Accept No Validation 08:59 Step 2 Stop Managing Opinions 10:12 Step 3 Clarify Values 12:23 Step 4 Skin In Game 13:28 Step 5 Small Decisions 14:25 Step 6 Validation Check 15:30 Put It In Action Exercise 17:19 Connection And Independence 18:05 Recap And Next Steps 19:49 Final Encouragement Show Notes Resources Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeMy Book: Flourishing After Adversity: A 3-Step Action Plan to Transform Pain Into Purpose and Embrace Joy Again: https://a.co/d/06XoGiNd Begin Again™ Workshop — Join Waitlist: https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshopMove Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  4. Sep 30

    S2:E39: Are You Busy or Making Meaningful Progress?

    Busy But Stuck: How to Make Meaningful Progress After Adversity Laura Mangum Broome explains how, after grief, illness, loss, divorce, or major change, people can stay busy yet feel stuck—like rowing a boat still tied to the dock by fear, uncertainty, overwhelm, or not knowing what’s next.  She distinguishes busyness from meaningful progress and outlines five strategies: define what progress should look like in the next 30 days before making a task list; sort activities into maintain, restore, progress, or busy; redirect energy to what you can control (thoughts, words, actions); take one small action that creates evidence you can move forward; and evaluate weekly results and “recalculate” as needed. She emphasizes rest as valid progress, warns against using old-life standards, offers five weekly reflection questions, and mentions the free guide “Reframe the Spiral” and the Begin Again™ Workshop. 00:00 Busy But Stuck 00:27 Rowboat Metaphor 01:23 Show Intro 02:42 Busy Versus Progress 04:10 Procrastination Disguised 05:52 Redefine Progress After Change 07:11 Five Steps Overview 07:16 Set A 30 Day Direction 08:29 Sort Activities By Purpose 10:25 Focus On What You Control 12:08 One Small Evidence Step 13:50 Reflect And Recalculate 15:07 Rest Versus Avoidance 15:53 Worth Beyond Productivity 17:05 Five Questions This Week 18:23 Recap And Rowboat Reminder 20:01 Resources And Next Steps 20:33 Closing And Call To Action Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeBegin Again™ Workshop — Sign Up: https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshopMy Book: Flourishing After Adversity: A 3-Step Action Plan to Transform Pain Into Purpose and Embrace Joy Again: https://a.co/d/0cP73yt6Move Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  5. Sep 23

    S2:E38 How to Shift From Problems to Possibilities During Setbacks

    Stop Rehearsing the Problem: Find Possibilities After Adversity Laura Mangum Broome introduces the Flourishing After Adversity podcast using a “junk drawer in the dark” metaphor to show how adversity can drain limited emotional energy when we keep digging through problems. She distinguishes healthy emotional processing from repeatedly rehearsing complaints that keep you stuck, clarifying this is not about denying grief or forcing gratitude, and shares her own experiences (breast cancer, losing her teenage son to suicide, heart transplant, losing her father, and the end of her 27-year marriage).  She explains how stress can impair decision-making and how attentional bias makes us notice more problems, then encourages shifting questions from “why” to “what’s possible now,” using small gratitude practices to widen perspective. She offers four steps: acknowledge feelings, catch the complaint, ask what’s possible, and record evidence of what helps, plus resources including a free “Reframe the Spiral” guide and a Begin Again workshop. 00:00 Junk Drawer Metaphor 01:13 Podcast Welcome 02:05 Processing vs Rehearsing 02:56 Pain Without Pretending 04:24 Catch the Complaint 07:24 Better Questions Forward 07:59 Stress and Decisions 09:45 Attention Bias Explained 11:37 Possibility Thinking Examples 12:37 Hunt the Good Stuff 15:49 Four Steps to Practice 18:16 Reality Mantra Perspective 19:25 Bigger Picture Growth 22:01 Try This Exercise 22:40 Recap and Next Steps 24:28 Closing and Resources Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeBegin Again™ Workshop — Sign Up https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshopMove Beyond Adversity Blog: https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  6. Sep 16

    S2:E37 Functional, Not Fearless: How Curbing Anxiety Fuels Your Reinvention

    From Overwhelmed to Functional: Curbing Anxiety to Rebuild After Adversity Host Laura Mangum Broome uses a midnight headlight metaphor to explain moving through hardship without seeing the whole road, warning that anxiety makes people stop and wait. She argues curbing anxiety during adversity isn’t about feeling better but about reclaiming the clarity, energy, and identity needed to rebuild after events like divorce, diagnosis, loss, or major life transitions.  Unchecked anxiety drains cognitive and emotional bandwidth, fuels indecision, exhausts the body through chronic threat response, and narrows self-perception into a “wounded” identity—“you’re not stuck, you’re flooded.” She defines curbing anxiety as restoring function, not eliminating fear, and offers three Radical Acceptance practices from the iCope2Hope System™: face the truth (what ended, changed, and cost you), control the controllable (two-column list), and redefine what matters (values as a compass), plus a 24-hour writing exercise and resources/workshop links. 00:00 Headlights in the Dark 01:04 Welcome and Free Resource 01:58 Why Anxiety Blocks Reinvention 03:05 The Hidden Resource Drain 04:44 Anxiety Steals Clarity 06:02 Anxiety Steals Energy 07:17 Anxiety Steals Identity 08:42 Functional Not Fearless 10:20 Three Practices to Reset 10:39 Practice One Face the Truth 12:09 Practice Two Control the Controllable 13:25 Practice Three Redefine What Matters 14:56 24 Hour Writing Exercise 15:33 Recap and Final Encouragement 17:40 Outro and Next Steps Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeS2:E25 How to Finally Move When Uncertainty Has You Frozen: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2503493/episodes/19393987 Begin Again™ Workshop: https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshop Move Beyond Adversity Blog — https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  7. Sep 9

    S2:E36 Moving Through Loss: When Your New Path Defies Others' Expectations

    Recalibrating After Loss: Walking Your New Path Despite Pushback Laura Mangum Broome introduces the Flourishing After Adversity podcast and a free download, “Reframe the Spiral,” then uses a compass-and-storm metaphor to explain how loss changes the “terrain” of life and requires recalibration. She shares five major losses in five years—including her teenage son’s suicide, breast cancer, heart failure and transplant, her father’s death, and an unexpected divorce—and describes choosing to build iCope2Hope instead of rebuilding her old life.  She distinguishes “moving through” loss from “moving on,” emphasizing that time alone doesn’t rebuild identity—intentional reinvention does—beginning with radical acceptance and redefining what matters. She explains why loved ones may resist change (their unexamined lives, projected fears, grief for the old you) and offers steps to handle pushback, set boundaries, answer the inner critic, take small deliberate actions, and write a “new chapter statement,” then invites listeners to review, share, visit iCope2Hope.com, join the Begin Again workshop, and download the free guide. 00:00 When Change Looks Wrong 00:26 Welcome and Free Guide 01:08 Compass After the Storm 02:07 My Losses and New North 03:52 Moving Through Not On 05:01 Radical Acceptance Reset 05:44 Why Loved Ones Resist 08:21 Three Steps to Respond 11:07 Permission to Disappoint 11:40 Micro Steps Forward 13:55 Write Your Chapter Statement 14:50 Recap and Next Steps 16:28 Closing and Resources Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeBegin Again™ Workshop — https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshop Move Beyond Adversity Blog — https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

  8. Sep 2

    S2:E35 Still Grieving or Ready to Move Forward? How to Know Which One You're In

    When to Sit With Grief—and When to Start Building Again Host Laura Mangum Broome explains that grief can’t be rushed, using the chrysalis metaphor to show how transformation requires time and struggle, and shares her own losses (her teenage son’s suicide, bilateral breast cancer, a heart transplant, her father’s death, and an unexpected divorce). She describes how women often either rebuild too soon or stay in grief too long, then defines “ready” as willing—not healed—and emphasizes moving through grief while building. She outlines three signs you may still need processing time (denial/bargaining, acute unpredictable pain that disrupts functioning, and numbing through busyness or habits) and three signs you may be ready to move forward (shifting from “why me” to “what now,” exhaustion with survival mode, and identifying at least one thing that still matters). She offers three steps: a radical acceptance check-in, a “What Still Matters” exercise, and taking one tiny action, noting that action precedes motivation. 00:00 When Its Time 00:45 Podcast Welcome 01:35 Chrysalis Metaphor 02:58 My Story And Aim 03:49 What Ready Means 04:47 Signs You're Still Grieving 07:56 Signs You're Ready 10:47 Three Tiny Steps 13:13 24 Hour Practice 13:41 Recap And Encouragement 15:22 Closing And Next Steps Free Resource: Reframe the Spiral: 5 Quick Coping Strategies to Shift Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Day https://www.icope2hope.com/reframeBegin Again™ Workshop —  https://www.icope2hope.com/the-begin-again-workshop Move Beyond Adversity Blog — https://www.icope2hope.com/blogFree Newsletter — Wednesday’s Resilient Recharge: https://www.icope2hope.com/newsletterSchedule a free 15-minute Clarity Call with Laura: https://bit.ly/15mincallLMBWebsite — iCope2Hope: From Hardship to Hope: https://www.icope2hope.com

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If you've experienced grief, illness, loss, or life-altering setbacks—and you're ready to reclaim your joy—this podcast is for you. Hosted by Laura Mangum Broome, Resilience Coach and author of Flourishing After Adversity, this weekly show is your go-to resource for overcoming life’s toughest challenges with hope, courage, and clarity. Each episode dives into real-life strategies for emotional healing, building resilience, managing mindset, navigating unexpected change, and rediscovering your strength after adversity.  Whether you're facing the aftermath of divorce, struggling to move forward after loss, or starting over later in life, you’ll find practical tools and encouragement to help you grow—not just go—through what you’ve been through. If you're searching for inspiration, resilience coaching tips, or mental health support for difficult seasons, hit play and start flourishing after adversity. You've got this!

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  • Creator
    Laura Mangum Broome
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Flourishing After Adversity
  • Show Website
    Flourishing After Adversity