Too Relieved To Grieve: The Alternative Heartbreak Handbook

Karan never expected to be divorced. After 24 years of building a home, a family, and a thriving local business with "Perfect Steve," she believed in the sacred permanence of her vows. But when Steve's apparent midlife collapse led him into the bed of her treacherous best friend, the "Perfect" fa ade didn't just crack - it detonated, blowing the family's life apart.

The marriage immediately collapsed into a molten hellscape of abject poverty and terrifying homelessness, leaving Karan to navigate her two emotionally brutalised young children through the smouldering wreckage. But as a professional Performance Mindset Coach and Mentor, Karan quickly realised a surgical truth: Her errant and failing husband hadn't just left her and abandoned their children; he had bestowed his problems and darkness upon her nemesis.

Too Relieved To Grieve is more than a heartbreak handbook - it is a darkly-comedic dismantling of a 24-year co-dependent trauma bond. It tracks the emergence of 'The Imposter' (the monstrously ominous shadow of the once Perfect Steve), and the ultimate liberation that can only be achieved when you realise the person who "stole" your life, actually saved you from it.

So, the standard was raised and the Phoenix rose from the ashes.

For the first time, Karan drags her vulnerabilities kicking and screaming into the light to provide a "Call to Arms" for anyone whose life has been similarly smashed and splattered by the callous misdeeds of those once loved.

This is a road map of how to stop surviving and start prevailing; let's go