Restored: Helping Children of Divorce
Aug 25, 2026 · 54 min · 13 segments
What if you’ve understood your wounds intellectually—but your body is still carrying them? After her parents’ divorce, Annie Sarlo spent years hiding her family’s dysfunction, struggling with anger…
Annie SarloGuest
Joey PontarelliHost
And I remember like having this desire of like, I better kind of keep a lid on this for a few reasons.
Two, I was kind of afraid they wouldn't be able to relate to me and see me as kind of like an outsider or something.
And it all kind of came to a head, probably the most for me when there was like a situation where the police were involved.
And I won't go into terrible detail, but having to do with just the divorce and everything.
And so it's a little bit of a lesson to me, like, okay, like maybe I need to open up to people.
Like, was there a particular moment when you kind of maybe turn that corner and saw like, okay, you know what? Maybe, maybe I can open up to people and not have all these bad things that I fear happening happen.
Yeah, for me, I mean, there was also a police moment where it was like, okay, there's no way this is, I can hide this from my community that I was in and from, you know, I had to leave and to help address a situation.
And so at those points, it became more known within like the immediate circle that where I was living.
But subsequent to that in years later, it was still something I hadn't really talked about.
There was addiction and mental illness and what felt like bigger things that I wasn't ready to deal with or address or hadn't begun my own journey of healing and processing it.
So then I kept it bottled up and it was once I don't know when, aside from the big incidents of the police and all of that, when I started sharing more, it was, I think, after rounds of counseling where I could just open up more freely my own interior reality in a safe space with one other trusted person.
And I remember like having this desire of like, I better kind of keep a lid on this for a few reasons.
Two, I was kind of afraid they wouldn't be able to relate to me and see me as kind of like an outsider or something.
And it all kind of came to a head, probably the most for me when there was like a situation where the police were involved.
And I won't go into terrible detail, but having to do with just the divorce and everything.
And so it's a little bit of a lesson to me, like, okay, like maybe I need to open up to people.
Like, was there a particular moment when you kind of maybe turn that corner and saw like, okay, you know what? Maybe, maybe I can open up to people and not have all these bad things that I fear happening happen.
Yeah, for me, I mean, there was also a police moment where it was like, okay, there's no way this is, I can hide this from my community that I was in and from, you know, I had to leave and to help address a situation.
And so at those points, it became more known within like the immediate circle that where I was living.
But subsequent to that in years later, it was still something I hadn't really talked about.
There was addiction and mental illness and what felt like bigger things that I wasn't ready to deal with or address or hadn't begun my own journey of healing and processing it.
So then I kept it bottled up and it was once I don't know when, aside from the big incidents of the police and all of that, when I started sharing more, it was, I think, after rounds of counseling where I could just open up more freely my own interior reality in a safe space with one other trusted person.
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