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Oct 2021
Harrogate businesswoman's new lease of life after divorce
This article is sponsored by Berwins
Going through a divorce is undoubtedly one of the most stressful and painful experiences in life.
There are a whirlwind of emotions to battle once a marriage breaks down, including feelings of grief and heartbreak, stress and fear, confusion and disorientation, disappointment and loss.
But for one Harrogate businesswoman, her divorce from her second husband has led to a new lease of life - so much so, she now helps others to mentally deal with the difficult, and often traumatic, process.
New challenges
Since her split, Lisa Duffield has set up her own life coaching and wellbeing business, the Lisa Duffield Centre, managed a house build and has even climbed Kilmanjaro.
She says she is the happiest she has ever been, and when you meet her, there's no denying her positivity is infectious.
She said:
As a woman who has gone through two divorces - although her first was amicable and she is still best friends with her first husband - she feels she is in the perfect position to help others.
She helps people who are getting a divorce to deal with their finances, the actual practicalities of moving house and how to look after their children and bring them up during that difficult time.
Lisa said:
Lisa, who has three daughters, says she has always had a business head on her shoulders, and set up a number of businesses with her first husband, whom she is close to and still works with.
Rebuild
But since her second divorce from her husband of nine years, she has had to rebuild everything again as it had a financial impact.
She said:
Stronger
Since deciding to launch her business, Lisa started off training to become a clinical hypnotherapist. Since then she has gone on to do lots of other advanced courses in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), as well as a a corporate executive coaching course.
She said:
Lisa said she decided to divorce her second husband when she felt the marriage wasn't equal she "felt stagnant" in her life.
She said:
And Lisa has certainly come a long way since her second divorce. Her wellbeing business, which started off with just Lisa as a clinical hypnotherapist, now has around 15 practitioners on the books.
She regularly travels to London and has done work with O2, the NHS, Capita and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has mentored some of the world's strongest men, helping them with their mental focus. As well as project managing her own housebuild, she is also about to set up a new online platform for a second hand plant machinery business.
And she has achieved all this on her own.
She said:
'Adventure junkie'
She has also become a self-confessed "adventure junkie" and has climbed Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu and Ben Nevis. She has also been skydiving and sea Kayaking around the Farne Islands.
Her upcoming challenges include a charity Zambezi River trip, a trek across the Sahara Desert and the Dalai Lama Himalayan Trek.
She said:
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