Maria Shriver reveals divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger took a toll on her
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ex-wife Maria Shriver has just lately defined how “brutal” divorce from the actor took a toll on her psychological well being.
The previous spouse shared stunning particulars about her difficult interval and the way she got here to phrases together with her with the tip of her marriage to Arnold in her upcoming e-book, I Am Maria.
Maria, who shares 4 youngsters with Arnold, wrote in an professional of her e-book, per Individuals, that the “end of their marriage came as a devastating, life-altering blow after the deaths of her parents, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver”.
“My twenty-five-year-long marriage blew up,” stated the 69-year-old.
Maria talked about, “It broke my heart, it broke my spirit, it broke what was left of me. Without my marriage, my parents, a job—the dam of my lifelong capital-D Denial just blew apart.”
For the unversed, Arnold confessed to fathering a toddler Joseph Baena, with family staffer Mildred Patty” Baena.
Maria revealed in her e-book, “I was consumed with grief and wracked with confusion, anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety.”
“I was unsure now of who I was, where I belonged. Honestly, it was brutal, and I was terrified,” she famous.
Maria opened up that she went to numerous therapists, healers, shamans and psychics after the trauma however she discovered therapeutic by way of writing poetry.
“I started writing from a deep place within,” she continued.
Maria additional stated, “Through my poetry, I’ve found a woman who was terrified of not being able to live up to her family’s legacy—scared of not being big enough, a good-enough daughter, sister, wife, mother, journalist.”
“I found someone who had spent a lifetime avoiding grief. And I also learned that when that lifetime of dissociated grief and trauma is released, it rushes out like a tsunami,” added Arnold’s former spouse.
