Being A Single Parent & Feeling Alone

Being a single parent was never my intention.  Feeling alone while being responsible for the lives of your children is never how anyone wants to feel.  Being a single parent blamed for the divorce and losing friends who you thought were friends is never intentional.  And yet, over 50% of marriages end in divorce! Personally [...]

Do You Have A Fear Of Commitment?

Since your divorce do you have a fear of commitment?  Stress of divorce and process of going through separation and divorce is never easy.  No matter what the circumstances leading up to divorce we often ask ourselves where we failed.  We all commit to our spouse in marriage and once that commitment has been broken [...]

Children of Divorce Need You To Listen

As a parent all you need to do is listen sometimes.  Children of divorce go through an internal cyclone of emotions and if they can’t openly talk about what they’re feeling it gets bottled up.  They need to ask questions and feel the answers are truthful.  They need to be heard just like anyone else.  [...]

Anxiety In Children – Telling The Truth

Often anxiety in children is simply miscommunication when telling the truth is all they need to hear.  Telling the truth with compassion, empathy, understanding and love is much more effective than ‘protecting or shielding your child’ from what you, the parent are afraid to say.  As parents we always want to protect our children.  There’s [...]

Best Life Lessons

So often when we least expect it we learn a profound life lesson! The video below, which I discovered on YouTube displays an inspiring lesson a pet can teach a child.  Pets are the perfect example of unconditional love and can teach patience, persistence, responsibility and so much more.  Take a moment to enjoy this.  [...]

Children At Risk

“Different laws apply to different types of couples because the federal, provincial and territorial governments share responsibility for family law under Canada’s Constitution. The federal government is responsible for making laws related to divorce. The provinces and territories are responsible for making family laws related to unmarried couples, married couples who separate but have not [...]

Holidays Alone After Divorce

Holidays alone after divorce, without your kids sucks! Holidays alone period can suck unless you want to have ‘down’ time. Whether you share custody or not, if you have children and are not able to celebrate with them it’s depressing!  After all, most holidays are all about children and family.  So how can you get [...]

Does your Ex push your emotional hot buttons?

Does your ex push your emotional hot buttons?  Hot, meaning ANGER!  One reason for divorce is “incompatibility”.  In other words you grew apart and things you once thought were endearing now ‘push your buttons‘ and piss you off.  Before you know it small stuff that once seemed cute or you were able to over-look becomes [...]

Being a friend before, during and after divorce

When I  separated and then, within a year divorced, I soon discovered who my true friends were.  As a couple my husband and I had many people who I’d thought were friends. These ‘friends’ quickly stopped calling or criticized, condemned and even said downright hurtful things that a true friend would never express.  Even my [...]

Single parent time management

Any single parent will agree there’s a lot of responsibility as the custodial parent raising children.  At times it feels impossible and too often unappreciated, but when all is said and done the rewards far outweigh the challenges.  I’m here to offer ideas, tried and true techniques and emotional support on your journey of parenting. [...]

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