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.  [...]

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

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 [...]

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.  [...]

Letting go after divorce

At what point do you just let go after divorce? The emotional over whelm can become life consuming with legal issues, child custody battles and financial transitioning. What about the feelings of loss? How and when do you let go of it all? Divorce, we know, affects everyone involved. It’s not just the couple who [...]

Surviving Divorce

Whether you have recently gone through a divorce, or if for some time you have been a single parent raising your children alone the emptiness can feel over whelming.  Friends and family may be there for you but the real connection of a soul mate who shares your viewpoint, can be there quietly for comfort [...]

How to live happier after divorce

Life lessons suck some times, but later in life when we reflect on a change in our life we usually realize we are better off having learned the lesson.  I am here to help you, after divorce, to learn faster and move on happier for the experience. 1. What emotional feelings are you having, right [...]