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 [...]

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 [...]

Single Parenting Happiness

What makes you happy?  What are the emotional attractions that capture your heart and allow you to feel alive? It is so important to know and understand what YOU need to make you feel better.  Your emotional and mental health and well-being is important for your physical health.  What you feel needs to be transparent [...]

How to manage overwhelm as a single parent

Feeling overwhelmed, lacking energy and letting your emotions get the best of you?  I can totally relate.

Are you ready to recover from divorce?

Perhaps asking if you are ready to recover from divorce is a rhetorical question but so often what we say isn’t really what we are feeling. We think we want to heal after divorce from the heart ache and yet the anger feels as though it’s serving a purpose. In fact, anger does serve a [...]

Life as a single parent

It is rarely an intention to plan single parenting as a profession.  Becoming pregnant and choosing to raise a child is life altering. There is no specific guide book to follow.  Each and every parent is unique, as is each and every child.  As we are all individual, so is the purpose of every life.  [...]

Dating after divorce – when’s the right time?

After divorce the beliefs you have are different than at any previous time in your life. How and when is the right time to consider dating again? If your trust has been compromised, how can you trust again? How long do you wait after divorce before getting back into the swing of things? What if, [...]

What do you tell your children when divorcing

How do I tell my kids I’m leaving? or How do I tell my kids I have to move away? or How do I tell my kids there is someone else in my life? Good questions, and maybe you have more.  So in order to get clear on exactly what you need to tell them, [...]

Divorce Recovery One Day At A Time

When any traumatic life event happens in our lives time seems irrelevant. The emotional pain and mind fog holds you prisoner. If you have feel like the “victim” in the divorce your normalcy that once was has slipped away, and what now is your reality can seem overwhelming and unbearable.  Friends, family, and acquaintances shift [...]

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