Single mom life is hard! But 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 …
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 …
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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 …
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. …
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 …
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
Step parenting isn’t easy, but it can be the most rewarding and satisfying lifetime experience. As a step-parent our influence has lasting effects on children. Like parenting in general we must earn love and respect. We are the example children should look up to. If we have unresolved issues of our own it is our …
Healing after divorce is absolutely essential before moving forward. Too often post divorce the feelings of anger, revenge, remorse, shame, blame, low self-esteem consume every waking minute. Thoughts or feelings like this only hurt the one actually feeling them, not the one who may have caused them. Pent up emotions are like a knot in …
Un-cooperative ex-husband can make the difficult process of divorce nearly impossible to deal with. Most of us would agree that even with a cooperative ex-spouse, divorce takes every ounce of energy to survive. Unfortunately, many divorcees face years of headaches and heartaches as they attempt to navigate the process with a difficult or even impossible …
I don’t care how good your relationship is with your ex-spouse, with few exceptions, there are going to be periods of time when you just don’t see eye to eye. And you know what? That’s a normal part of the process, and if you agreed on everything, you probably wouldn’t have split up in the …
