Valerie Bertinelli split from her second husband Tom Vitale in 2022
It was a long time coming. As she shares in this week’s cover story, “It’s taken me 60 years to get to here.”after 11 years of marriage. “We became very unkind to one another," she says,"and that’s not a way to live in a marriage."The end was the"catalyst," she says. “That was just the breaking point for me, where I finally decided I’ve had enough. I was continuing to“I had hit rock bottom emotionally. All the drama and trauma I hadn’t dealt with," she explains.
"I wanted to feel calm," she says, adding that led her to “more consistent therapy, more journaling and meditation." It took time — and a lot of tears. “The more I let myself cry, the better I felt,” she says. Long walks with her dog Luna were also helpful. “When I decided to really question why I was having a certain emotion," she says, "I was able to — most of the time — walk through it and get to the other side."And there she began to find joy again, starting in her home kitchen, cooking her favorite recipes, which she shares in“I found a way to be intentional with joy,” she says.
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