13 Ways to Help Children Cope with Divorce
Children take divorce just as hard as their parents. Not only is the life of the parent changing, but the child’s life has been turned completely upside down. Each child…
Anger is Often An Excuse
Anger seems to be a challenge many people are faced with when divorcing. Recently a student declared that she had anger issues. What exactly did that mean for her? “Well”…
Five Steps to Mending a Broken Heart
Mending a Broken Heart in Five Steps: Accept that you will have to go through some pain. It is an unavoidable truth that if you loved enough to be heartbroken,…
Letting Go is a Difficult Process
Letting go of the pain, sadness, grief and the many challenging emotions involved in ending a relationship is always difficult. The proverb “Time heals all wounds” is categorically untrue. Time…
How’s your love life?
After my divorce people began asking me –“how’s your love life”? What they were asking about –was I dating anyone, had I found a new “love interest”?The love life that…
What is an Emotional Affair
An emotional affair is where you break the emotional bond with your partner and create one with someone else that has a lot of emotional energy attached to it, as…
What is Victim Consciousness?
A Great Question? Victim Consciousness? Let’s start with defining the two terms: Full Definition of victim1: A living being sacrificed to a deity or in the performance of a religious rite2: …
5 Stages of Loss – Denial is the First
Denial is the First of the 5 Stages of Loss The book, “On Death and Dying,” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, proposed there are five distinct stages of normal grief. While the focus…
Good Enough is Good Enough
How many of us have lived our lives thinking “I am not enough”? Too many. Why are we doing this and where did it come from? We are enough. But,…
5 Keys to Managing Your Anger through a Divorce
“Anger is a catalyst. Holding on to it will make us exhausted and sick. Internalizing anger will take away our joy and spirit; externalizing anger will make us less effective…
