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.  [...]

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

Telling Family & Friends You’re Divorcing

One of the most unexpected challenges I experienced after divorce was the reaction and loss of family and friends.  The people you expect to stand beside you and support you in the process of divorce were opinionated and critical.

Separated or Divorced, Broke & Depressed?

If this title hits you in the stomach it’s time to shift your thoughts and discover how to recover.  In difficult economic times the divorce rate increases substantially.  The lack of money impacts self-esteem, self-worth, self-confidence and robs people of all values. Low income, unemployed are more likely to divorce, commit crime, suffer from depression [...]

Single Parent Planning for the Future

As you reflect on what’s happened in your past what have you learned?  Every life experience, good bad and ugly is a contrast to what we want in our life or can gives us clarity of what we want more of.  If we don’t take time to assess what we want and plan to have [...]

Christmas spirit doesn’t die with divorce

As much as I empathize with how difficult holidays can be after divorce.   Family dynamics change and emotions can be all over the map.  Rather than allowing overwhelm to consume you, make a deliberate choice on how you prefer to feel and focus on what you can do to achieve it.   Nobody but you [...]

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