The books
Help with one specific part of life
Choose from home, money, parenting, rebuilding after 50, or emotional recovery. Each book gives you practical explanations, checklists, and next steps you can use at your own pace.
See All Five BooksPractical help for rebuilding
Choose the kind of help you need right now.
Use a focused book to solve the problem in front of you, or start the Suddenly Single app for personalized next steps, saved progress, and guided support through the larger rebuilding process.
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Choose what is causing the most pressure. Get three useful next steps, saved progress, an eight-week rebuilding path, and an AI companion when you need help thinking something through.
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3 stepsclear actions to begin
8 weeksguided rebuilding
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Member Library
- Today
- Name one problem and get three sequenced moves.
- Journey
- Eight weekly lessons, each with a working exercise, a reflection, and one move.
- Concierge
- AI guidance for a specific problem, up to 40 messages a day.
- Library
- 90 short briefs, from furnace noises to beneficiary reviews.
$9.99 a month after the trial. Cancel anytime through your selected payment provider.
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Two ways to begin
Focused answers or ongoing guidance — you choose.
Both options are built for the practical decisions that follow a major relationship transition.
The subscription
A personalized rebuilding path
Tell the app what is creating the most pressure. It gives you a three-step starting plan, all eight rebuilding sessions, saved progress, and an AI companion for practical support.
Try It Free for 3 DaysHow it works
From overwhelmed to rebuilding in four steps.
Choose your priority
Tell the app what is creating the most pressure right now.
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Get your action plan
Receive three practical next steps you can start today.
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Follow the 8-week path
Work through weekly rebuilding sessions at your own pace.
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Build your plan
Leave with a focused 90-Day Rebuilding Plan and clear direction.
The five-book series
Choose the guide that matches the problem in front of you.
Printed editions are available through Amazon and IngramSpark, with ordering and fulfillment handled by those retailers.
Repairs, maintenance, emergency scripts, checklists, shutoffs, and practical household decisions.
Budgeting, bills, account cleanup, debt pressure, financial stabilization, and rebuilding a workable plan.
Co-parenting, routines, age-aware guidance, schedules, communication, boundaries, and family stability.
Identity, housing, money, routines, confidence, purpose, relationships, and planning the next chapter.
Emotional overwhelm, grief, loneliness, reflection, support planning, and practical recovery steps.
Practical Guides
Start with the problem you need to solve today.
These free guides organize common post-divorce challenges into practical next steps. Each page is designed to answer one specific question clearly and point you toward deeper help when you need it.
How to Start Over After DivorceA practical step-by-step rebuilding plan.
Starting Over After Divorce at 50Finances, housing, retirement, identity, and the next chapter.
Starting Over After Divorce With No MoneyStabilize essentials and rebuild cash flow in stages.
Divorce Financial ChecklistAccounts, bills, insurance, credit, taxes, and documents.
Living Alone After DivorceHome safety, maintenance, routine, loneliness, and independence.
What members use it for
Real situations. Practical responses.
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"I was overwhelmed and did not know where to start. The app gave me three concrete steps and I actually did them. That changed everything."
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"The homeowner's book saved me from a panic moment with my furnace. I knew exactly what to check and when to call someone. Worth every penny."
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"The eight-week program gave me structure when my life had none. By Week 4 I was running my household with confidence. By Week 8 I had a real plan."
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The Suddenly Single subscription
Tell the app what is overwhelming you. Get your next steps.
Start with the problem causing the most pressure. The app builds a short plan, remembers your progress, and guides you through the larger rebuilding process on your own schedule.
Suddenly Single Rebuilding Program — App
$9.99 / month after a 3-day free trial
- A personalized three-step starting plan
- All 8 weekly rebuilding sessions, self-paced
- An AI companion for practical support between sessions
- Saved progress across supported devices
- Cancel anytime — no long-term commitment
Start your free trial in a couple minutes — no long form to fill out.
Start Your 3-Day Free Trial Already subscribed? Access your accountThe 8-week roadmap
From seeing the situation clearly to leaving with a plan.
1
Where Am I Now?
Build an honest baseline, identify priority areas, and choose one immediate stabilization action.
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Regaining Emotional Stability
Separate what you control, what you can influence, and what you need to release.
3
Taking Control of Money
Create a practical 30-day financial stabilization plan and identify the next three financial actions.
4
Running the Household
Replace household uncertainty with a simple system, priorities, contacts, and a concrete action.
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Family Stability & Parenting
Reduce chaos through routines, boundaries, respectful communication, and support planning.
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Identity & Independence
Begin designing the life you are building, not merely reacting to the life that ended.
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Planning the Next Chapter
Turn hope into realistic 90-day, one-year, and three-year direction with milestones and constraints.
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From Surviving to Rebuilding
Repeat the life assessment, identify what changed, and leave with a focused 90-Day Rebuilding Plan.
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Our mission
Make the road easier for the person who comes next.
Suddenly Single exists to equip people facing divorce, separation, widowhood, and other major relationship transitions with practical resources that restore confidence, promote self-sufficiency, and create a clearer path forward.
The books are not the mission. People are the mission. Every resource is built around one idea: when life changes suddenly, practical action can reduce confusion and help a person begin rebuilding.
“I lived it. I fought through it. I rebuilt my life. Now I want to make the road easier for the person who comes after me.”
— Michael Smith, Founder & Author
— Michael Smith, Founder & Author
What Suddenly Single helps with
Real problems. Practical next steps.
The goal is not to replace attorneys, counselors, financial professionals, medical providers, or other qualified experts. The goal is to help people organize the parts of life they still have to manage between professional appointments.
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Home & Household
Maintenance, emergencies, systems, responsibilities, and greater confidence handling a home alone.
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Money & Stability
One-income budgeting, account cleanup, financial priorities, and practical stabilization steps.
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Family & Parenting
Routines, co-parenting communication, household stability, boundaries, and support planning.
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Emotional Stability
Practical reflection, controllable actions, support resources, and decisions that are less driven by overwhelm.
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Identity & Independence
Rebuilding confidence, capability, routines, social support, and a stronger sense of direction.
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The Next Chapter
Turning hope into specific 90-day, one-year, and three-year goals with realistic next actions.
Suddenly Single Rebuilding Program™
Books can answer questions. A program can create a rebuilding process.
The Suddenly Single Rebuilding Program™ is an eight-week educational, skills-based life-transition program designed for adults rebuilding after divorce, separation, widowhood, or another major relationship transition.
What the program is designed to do
- Help participants slow down and identify what actually needs attention first.
- Create a practical baseline across emotional, financial, household, family, social-support, confidence, and future-direction domains.
- Turn broad problems into small, specific weekly actions.
- Build practical independence instead of relying on motivation alone.
- Help participants create realistic 90-day, one-year, and three-year direction.
- Finish with a personal 90-Day Rebuilding Plan and a defined first post-program action.
Program licensing price guide
Choose the licensing scope that matches your organization.
The initial cohort license is the entry point. Additional training, cohorts, participant materials, launch support, annual use, and multi-site rights are priced separately based on scope.
| Offer | What it includes | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cohort license | One organization, one 8-week cohort, up to 15 participants, current materials, outcomes package, and basic implementation support. | $5,500 |
| Facilitator certification | 6–7 hours of training, knowledge check, teach-back evaluation, and V1 authorization for one facilitator. | $1,500–$2,500 per facilitator |
| Additional cohort | Same host, same trained facilitator, delivered within 12 months. | $2,500–$3,500 |
| Participant materials | Workbook/assessment access or printed kit. | $75–$150 per participant |
| Implementation / launch support | Host readiness call, customization within scope, and data-review meeting. | $1,000–$2,500 |
| Annual site license, after validation | Multiple cohorts at one named location, with capped participant/cohort volume. | $12,000–$20,000 annually |
| Enterprise / multi-site license | Multiple locations, reporting, and train-the-trainer rights when approved and operationally ready. | $25,000+ annually |
Final pricing within a range depends on scope, delivery requirements, customization, participant volume, and location count. Additional rights require written authorization.
Organizational licensing
Purchase one authorized cohort license.
A defined license for one organization — not an unrestricted sale of the intellectual property.
Organizational Cohort License
$5,500 one-time payment
- One purchasing organization
- One named facilitator authorized for this cohort; facilitator certification is priced separately when required
- One cohort of up to 15 participants
- 90-day implementation window beginning when controlled materials are released
- Facilitator, participant, implementation, and outcomes materials
Not included: additional cohorts, facilitators, locations, continuous use, resale, redistribution, or internal evaluator controls.
What an organization receives
Not a stack of documents. One integrated delivery system.
The program is designed so a qualified host organization can prepare, deliver, measure, and close a cohort without depending on the author to personally run each session.
Facilitator Guide
Eight session plans, timing, scripts, discussion prompts, exercises, program boundaries, and facilitator watch points.
Participant Workbook
Private assessments, worksheets, weekly actions, reflection pages, support mapping, milestones, and the 90-Day Rebuilding Plan.
Assessment & Outcomes System
Attendance, baseline/post measurement, weekly action tracking, participant feedback, facilitator evaluation, organizational evaluation, and reporting.
Implementation Manual
Program roles, readiness checks, enrollment guidance, privacy/data principles, logistics, referral boundaries, deployment, and closeout.
Organizational fit
Designed for organizations that already serve people in transition.
Employers & EAP Programs
Structured educational support for employees navigating a disruptive personal transition that can affect concentration, finances, family stability, and day-to-day functioning.
Counseling & Behavioral Health
A practical educational adjunct that can reinforce organization, action-taking, and life-management skills without positioning the program as psychotherapy.
Family Law & Mediation
A structured post-meeting resource for clients who still have to rebuild the practical parts of daily life after the legal work is underway.
Faith & Recovery Organizations
A practical, structured resource that can complement existing community, recovery, pastoral, and peer-support systems.
Veteran-Serving Organizations
A structured life-transition option for adults whose divorce, separation, widowhood, or relationship loss disrupts multiple parts of civilian and family life.
Community & Life-Transition Programs
For organizations whose participants need practical rebuilding support and have access to appropriate referral or escalation pathways when needs exceed educational scope.
For organizations
Could this fit the people your organization already serves?
Purchase one defined cohort license now, or request information if your organization needs a larger or customized arrangement.
Contact Suddenly Single
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