Divorce Happens:
A Compassionate Guide to Starting Fresh
A book from Genevieve Dreizen & Olivia Howell, co-founders of Fresh Starts Registry
Published by Sheldon Press | Hachette UK · Coming late August 2027
What the book is
Divorce happens. To people who expected it and people who didn't. To people who wanted it and people who didn't. It happens on a Tuesday, or after twenty years, or after two. It happens and then you're standing somewhere new, looking at a life that needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
This is the book for that moment.
Divorce Happens is a compassionate, practical guide to what comes after — written by the co-founders of Fresh Starts Registry, the world's first divorce registry and expert ecosystem. Not a legal manual. Not a grief memoir. A guide: honest about the hard parts, clear about the practical ones, and grounded in the belief that starting over isn't an ending. It's the whole point.
Built around the Fresh Starts Framework — the six-part structure that has guided thousands of people through the Fresh Starts Registry community — the book meets you where you are and walks with you through what's next.
Who it's for
For anyone going through divorce right now — and anyone who has been through it and is still putting the pieces together. For the person who just got served papers and doesn't know where to start. For the person three years out who thought they'd be further along by now. For the person who wanted the divorce and still finds it harder than they expected.
This book doesn't ask you to be brave or grateful or okay. It just asks you to keep going. And it gives you something to hold while you do.
About the authors
Genevieve Dreizen and Olivia Howell are sisters and co-founders of Fresh Starts Registry, named by Forbes as the first divorce registry of its kind. Since launching in 2021, Fresh Starts Registry has accumulated more than 10 billion organic press impressions and built a community of hundreds of vetted divorce professionals across the United States and beyond.
Jenny serves as COO and Editor in Chief of Divorce Guide Magazine. Olivia serves as CEO and offers free Divorce Resource Consults to anyone navigating divorce, and hosts and produces Divorce Happens Podcast. Together, they host A Fresh Story, a podcast about reinvention, and have been featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, Parade, HuffPost, and more.
Divorce Happens is their first book.
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Press inquiries
For media requests, interview opportunities, or advance review copies, please reach out to Olivia at olivia@freshstartsregistry.com.
Fresh Starts Registry has been covered by The Washington Post, Newsweek, Parade, HuffPost, and many others. Jenny and Olivia are available for comment on divorce culture, the economics of divorce, and what it means to rebuild.