A Conversation with Laura Friedman Williams
Navigating Sex and Dating After Divorce
In this episode, I share an everyday burnout conversation with Laura Friedman Williams.
Laura is a native New Yorker and author of the recently published book Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating After a Marriage Ends.
Laura was a happily married, stay-at-home, self-declared PTA mum of three children, and for nearly three decades, she was living every inch of the life she had planned for. Then one day, she discovered her husband was having an affair and found herself single after 27 years, setting her on a new path of self-discovery.
Her brilliant debut book shares her fabulous and unapologetic story of sex and dating after divorce. It's my favourite kind of memoir writing as Laura shares her funny, honest, and moving account of her sexual reinvention. Expect to have many laughs and then some tears as Available explores the various roles we take on through the course of our lives and how they come to define us.
Laura has been featured in The Financial Times, Cosmopolitan UK, Vogue UK, and The Daily Mail to name a few. She lives in downtown Manhattan with her three children.
In this episode, Laura talks about:
How it feels to have your life turned upside down in your mid 40's and grieve for your identity and life as you knew it.
The anguish of sitting in pain when you are an optimist who defaults to the silver linings of life events.
The act and courage of putting yourself back together again and getting back out in the world after feeling so lost and broken.
How abiding by her guiding principle of living life with no regrets helped her move forward.
The joy of first-time sex second time around and how Laura learned to love herself and her body at 50.
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Check out Laura's book - Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating After a Marriage Ends.
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