There is good stress and bad stress. a divorce is bad stress. A new home is good stress and starting a business on your own is somewhere in between. A good stress reducer is knowledge of what the future could hold. I thought the end of my first marriage was a horrible tragedy...it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to me. Owning your own business is stressful, being a 'wage-slave' is worse. Sounds to me like she has a bright future ahead. She just has to realize it.