Breakover: Huffington Post Divorce, Weddings Editor Sara Wilson Talks HuffPost Video Series

Calling all INDOMITABLE women (with a sense of humor about themselves and life):

Have you ever had an experience you thought would BREAK you, but that turned out instead to be one of the BEST THINGS THAT EVER HAPPENED because it launched a complete life transformation?

WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT.

We’re looking for women of all ages who have reinvented themselves following a MAJOR personal trauma of some kind. We’d like to feature your story in an upcoming Huffington Post video series called BREAKOVER.

Maybe a divorce ripped your life apart—and afterwards you moved across the country and wrote the novel you’d been putting off writing for years.

Maybe you got laid off from your job and launched a rewarding new business —even though you never imagined you could go it alone.

Maybe your life turned upside down for another reason altogether—and in the process you found your new passion.

Whatever happened to kick off your extraordinary personal transformation, it was bad (sickeningly, horribly, and yes, ultimately hilariously bad)—but it took your life in an amazing new direction.

If your Breakover story has guts, humor, and a clear moment of awareness that precipitated your transformation, WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT.

Email [e-mail] with your NAME, AGE, and the basic details of your Breakover story in under 500 words. **PLEASE INCLUDE THE TOWN OR CITY WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE SUBJECT LINE.**

If we can feature your story in our video series, we'll be in touch. Hope to hear from you soon!

Comments

[Popopnano]

06:21 PM on 03/08/2012

My breakover moment is 8 hours after I consume a whole cheese pizza.

[Date tall big men]

02:33 PM on 03/06/2012

No advice will sway you, but just remember that this experience rarely leaves any fear of what comes next. Loving and living life with great expectations is a wonderful thing. ---BTW, give us a shot if you are looking for a life companion.

[twigtrigtrack]

02:03 PM on 03/06/2012

Breakover...love it.

[hemipwr54]

12:02 PM on 03/06/2012

A divorced mom needs free contraceptives to ease the finical burden.

[mandomitch]

12:04 PM on 03/06/2012

So you can play one note. Can you play a note in tune with the topic?

[hemipwr54]

12:09 PM on 03/06/2012

It is on topic, divorce, burdens, how much more on topic do I need to get?

[Deli]

05:34 PM on 03/07/2012

Too bad I wasted my taxes on an education system that failed to teach you how to spell.

[hemipwr54]

05:40 PM on 03/07/2012

Where did I misspell a word if you please?

[JoeRobinsonSolar]

11:24 AM on 03/06/2012

I'm waiting for that to happen. However, I have had a few experiences that broke me but unfortunately I didn't recover to go on start a wildly successful new company or invent some new gizmo that made me a millionaire. I did survive though and as far as I can tell, the game ain't over.

[SmallBizQueen]

08:36 AM on 03/06/2012

I didn't re invent myself, I just let my true self live! As a woman of color in business, I decided to be proud of, not only my heritage, but of what I created and built. For other women in my same position, I created In the Pinc, a business building, networking, and connecting community for women of color in small business. In the Pinc is a place of our own, where we are welcomed to the table. Where women of color are truly celebrated, not just tolerated. It's is the place where women of color come to become! www.inthepinc.net

[lookskyward]

06:50 AM on 03/06/2012

First winning the 104 million dollars and then realizing that that Asian beauty I met in the streets of lower Manhattan really truly loved me;all in the period of twenty four hours. Now that really transformed my life.
Now I spend a small period of everyday just dancing in the streets in my alligator taps..and,
and...

[Scarlett77]

11:57 AM on 03/06/2012

and you should be wrtiting " amazing" fiction, my friend. lol

[lookskyward]

09:59 PM on 03/06/2012

Thank you Scarlett,
It's nice to hear such nice things from someone with such a nice name!

[Ossit]

06:35 AM on 03/06/2012

Why is it when after a something happens men can move on and do whatever, and when a woman does it, it's called reinventing yourself, it's called recovering from a "major trauma" and taking on "an amazing new direction" or "transformation"? When a man moves on and accomplishes something it's accepted, but when a woman does it's expected to be a medal winner? Sorry, but as a woman, I just don't get it.

[debdum]

09:00 AM on 03/06/2012

It's because men don't process, they deny and push their feelings down. Women work through their issues and allow themselves to experience different emotions along the way. Men go into their caves and don't come out until their troubles have passed them by. They react with actions only, detached and void of feelings. Sometimes this may serve a purpose...declaring war, etc., but it doesn't allow for personal growth, maybe intellectual growth but not for personal growth and maturity.

[twigtrigtrack]

02:04 PM on 03/06/2012

can't wait for my divorce to be finalized so that I can start my breakover in my cave..or maybe some tropical paradise.

[natal plum]

09:11 AM on 03/06/2012

As a guy I don't either. Of course for women the job is a "career" and for a man his job is just a job. Woman gets divorced? "major trauma", "reinvention", "transformation". Man gets divorced? Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

[susanreg]

05:52 AM on 03/06/2012

sounds like a good idea, will be interested in reading this since I need to reinvent myself

[COPESTIR3]

11:35 PM on 03/05/2012

Giving birth to my daughter redefined who I was the moment I held her in my arms.

[althepal55]

07:16 PM on 03/05/2012

What?!
No call out for dads, hubbies and children aged-out of the system??
(tsk tsk) In a Family Law Industry that preys on families and children...
We all have a lot to say too.

[Hank234]

08:29 PM on 03/05/2012

It's the huffpo divorce section, are you surprised?

[notoriusbrut]

04:16 PM on 03/05/2012

where's the section for ppl with functional relationships? bc, contrary to popular belief - you can actually endure tremendous amounts of strain and not come apart at the seams if you and your mate have the mettle

[NCOak]

03:44 PM on 03/05/2012

there's seriously a divorce section? ugh

[dirtydog1776]

02:45 PM on 03/05/2012

Make sure you tell how you got the government to pay for reinventing yourselves and making decisions for you. That's important.

[qsfoxx]

08:16 AM on 03/05/2012

Let's hear from all the "It's All About Me" people out there! Yawn...

[Susan E Sneathen]

10:44 AM on 03/05/2012

You're too kind (sarcasm)

[qsfoxx]

11:06 AM on 03/05/2012

Thanks, but they ARE out there. Most with an eye problem. No. Make that an "I" problem. Nice to hear from you. (sarcasm) lol.

[PCCNYC]

12:52 PM on 03/05/2012

Don't like it, don't read them.