When my marriage ended-the shame, the guilt, the fear and the whispers started.
“You’ll never find love again.”
“No one wants a woman with baggage.”
“Happily ever after? You will never have it.”
“What did you do wrong?”
Divorce wasn’t supposed to be part of my story. Neither was the subsequent chaos of becoming a second spouse and entering stepmother hood, the emotional whiplash of blended family dynamics, or the suffocating self-doubt that came with rebuilding a life from scratch. But here’s the thing about being burned to ashes- the only thing left to do is RISE.
Society loves to make assumptions and box women in—especially when they’re divorced. Then add in the extra layer of judgement when they step into a role as misunderstood as becoming a stepmom. The world tells us that we should shrink, settle, and accept that the best chapters are behind us.
I chose not to listen.
Instead, I blew that narrative to pieces and wrote a new one—one where I became the author of my future and a best-selling book, Uncaged: The Key to Happily Ever After. I stopped waiting for a prince, permission, or the perfect circumstances and decided to create my own happily ever after—on my terms.
Hi, I’m Courtney—but you can call me Court. My friends do. My clients? They call me Dr. Court. I’m a mom, a divorcee, a second wife, and a stepmom—at least, that’s what society would label me. But here’s the truth: I’m a healing, thriving, badass woman who refuses to be defined by anyone else’s narrative. I didn’t just survive divorce—I rebuilt, reclaimed, and rewrote my story from the ground up.
I’m also the unapologetic force (and founder) behind Ever After Coaching – where divorce recovery leads to reinvention, where stepmoms become uncaged, and where we are breaking free from the outdated expectations, guilt, and emotional weight that comes with the demise of a marriage and the rebuilding of roles. We write the next chapter and turn stories into the greatest comebacks.
My happily ever after is built from the ashes of a life that tried to break me. I didn’t wake up one day and decide to be a coach, a writer, or a business owner. I woke up almost every day drowning in the weight of a life full of “shoulds”, unimaginable grief, single motherhood, and the ensuing chaos that came with getting remarried and entering a blended family. I faced court battles, co-parenting nightmares, and the emotional warfare of stepping into a role no one prepares you for. Through every painful chapter, I wrote my way out. I put pen to paper, not just to survive but to reclaim my voice, my power, and my story.
I built this business for two reasons: 1. To heal the woman I once was and 2. For the women that will come behind me—the ones who feel trapped, lost, and like the best parts of their life are behind them. I turned my pain into purpose, my survival into strategy, and my scars into a roadmap for others. This business wasn’t born from ease or privilege—it was built in the trenches, through sleepless nights, illnesses, hard lessons, and a relentless refusal to stay caged by my past.
Now, I help other women do the same. Whether they’re reclaiming their life after divorce, finding their footing as a stepmom, or writing their way to healing, I show them what no one showed me: that happily ever after isn’t something you wait for—it’s something you create. And no matter how much hell you’ve walked through, you still have the power to build something beautiful.
Society makes divorced women feel ashamed, less than, failures. It paints stepmoms as “the problem” and tells them to “stay in their lane.” I call bull.
Through high-level mindset coaching, divorce recovery mentorship, and stepmom empowerment, I help women:
✔ Reclaim their identity after divorce—because they are more than someone’s ex-wife.
✔ Detach from toxic co-parenting drama—because peace is a choice.
✔ Step into confidence as a stepmom—because they don’t need permission to belong.
✔ Turn pain into power—because writing their story is their greatest asset.
I have a very dear friend who says, “the work, works”. It works because it matters.
It matters because the women who have walked through heartbreak, betrayal, and loss are the same women who are capable of building something even greater from the ashes. It matters because women don’t have to tiptoe around their existence—they get to claim their space, their voice, and their own version of who they are, what kind of future they want to embrace.
It matters because too many brilliant, strong, and capable women are still waiting for permission—permission to heal, to be happy, to build a future that excites them instead of just enduring a life that drains them.
They don’t need external permission. That will never come. They need to uncage and step into their own internal power.
Because when a woman stops apologizing for her past, when she reclaims her identity after divorce, when she steps fully into the role(s) that she desires most whether it’s as a partner, mother, even a business owner or CEO, or a combo of all of the above—she becomes unstoppable. And that kind of power changes everything.
Do you want to be the woman that fades into the background, constantly compromising, feeling a rising resentment, and grasping at fragments of happiness? Or do you want to create your happy, fall in love with yourself again, build businesses, write books, and step into your own happily ever after—not the fairytale kind, but the kind you built with your own durn hands.
This work isn’t just personal. It’s a revolution.
I don’t just coach—I challenge. I don’t just guide—I disrupt. And if you’re a woman reading this, wondering if you’re too late, too broken, or too lost to create your own comeback… let me make this clear:
Your story is just getting started.
Your past is not your prison.
Your Happily Ever After is waiting—if you’re bold enough to claim it.
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