What to Consider When You’re Considering Divorce: A Practical Guide to Navigating the First Steps Moving Forward (The Divorce Guide)

Are you starting to wonder if your relationship is no longer serving you—but feeling overwhelmed by where to begin?

This book is your calm, grounded companion through the earliest stages of divorce consideration. With 22 detailed chapters, it covers everything from emotional clarity and invisible labor to legal questions, financial planning, real estate, parenting dynamics, and postnuptial agreements.

You’ll learn:

• How to evaluate whether your concerns are temporary or long-term
• What to do before contacting a lawyer
• How to assess your financial, legal, and digital assets
• Options for co-parenting, custody, and support
• What healing, rebuilding, and life after divorce can truly look like

Whether you're seriously considering divorce or just starting to question things, this guide is here to help you feel informed, supported, and empowered.

No pressure. Just perspective.

Genevieve "Jenny" Dreizen is the co-founder and COO of Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform for everything you need to begin again, including divorce or breakup, moving, career changes, stepping into your truth, or starting again after grief. On the heels of her sister Olivia's divorce, which prompted Olivia to have an 'aha moment' when she realized we needed to reframe the narrative around big life changes, and her own decade-long relationship ending Olivia and Jenny founded Fresh Starts as the first Support Registry and Divorce Registry to help remove the overwhelm of starting over following any big, bold life transition as well as assemble the hype team of experts to support them through it.Jenny is passionate about creating usable, efficient, and beautiful systems to run Fresh Starts to maintain their Experts, Support Specialists, and Freshies. When not planted in front of her multi-screen setup, Jenny might be found baking brownies, working on a poem or essay, or doing her favorite thing - going for a walk and buying herself a little treat

Olivia Howell is the co-founder and CEO of Fresh Starts Registry, the first and only platform for everything you need to begin again, including divorce or breakup, moving, career changes, stepping into your truth, or starting again after grief. After her own divorce in 2019, Olivia had an 'aha moment' when she realized that we celebrate weddings and babies with a registry, but in the moments we really need to restock our life, like divorce, job loss, or any brave decision and major life change, we need the support, both in the form of support items for your home and the experts who become our hype team. From there, Fresh Starts Registry was born, the first Support Registry and Divorce Registry - the only platform aggregating support experts for all life changes and supporting the Fresh Starts Experts in their marketing, business, and public relations. Olivia currently lives in Huntington with her two amazing boys. In her spare time, she loves to watercolor, make handmade cards, read about generational trauma, listen to 90s music, and collect crystals. She's working on a romantic novel that has been in the works for far too long, and she hopes to eventually publish it before her children are too old to be totally embarrassed by it.