Reflections & Insight

Click here for for a great article on managing your stress during divorce and separation. This article gives tips on managing the grieving process of divorce and the emotions that are associated with it.

About the Collaborative Family Law Institute and the Collaborative Divorce Process (taken from the Collaborative Family Law Institute website: www.collaborativefamlaw.com)

The Collaborative Family Law Institute is an association of skilled, like-minded attorneys, mental health professionals and financial professionals dedicated to helping resolve family disputes using the dignified and non-adversarial process of collaborative law. This process enables separating spouses to accomplish their divorce in a spirit of cooperation and mutual respect in an environment in which both transparency and personal privacy are ...

Believe it or not, you are going to survive your divorce! Divorce is a transition, a process of change. And although, for some it can feel traumatic, perhaps likely the greatest stress and challenge of your life, it can also prove to be very growth promoting. Divorce can ultimately lead to new knowledges and greater insights.
In the divorcing process, anger, conflict, and frustration may exist on many levels regardless of who initiated the divorce. What matters the most is ...

(taken from the Huntington Post)

Most days, our inner critics tend to fill our heads with all the ways in which we are failing and falling short. Add the ending of a relationship, and it’s like your inner critic just got carte blanche access to an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord full of misery inducing opinions about you, your life and your former relationship.

If you don’t catch this nasty voice in time, it can keep you reeling for days — filling your head with ...

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<li>When couples make the decision to divorce, there are several layers of concern as they move forward with their lives. Read below to learn how Collaboratively trained Attorneys, Mental Health Professionals, and Financial Professionals, will guide you gently and respectfully through the turbulent waters of divorce. Children in the Collaborative process are protected from the crossfire of emotion by caring professionals trained in helping parents be the best parent they can be, even in the face of divorce.</li>
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<em>by </em>BARTHOLOMEW &amp; WASZNICKY<em> on </em>JANUARY 4, 2013

Some couples co-parent with ease, while other couples can feel their blood pressures rise at the mere thought of their ex. When it comes to co-parenting and interacting with your former partner, here are 10 ways to lower stress when you have to talk to your ex about the kids:
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<li>Discuss and agree on how much contact you both want with and from each other when it comes to the children. If ...

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton.
You may as well make it dance.”
— George Bernard Shaw

The theoretical model for understanding the post-divorce binuclear familyand obtaining family systems change through individual coaching is based on work by Carter & McGoldrick, in ...

Divorce can be an overwhelming experience. For most of us the days are full enough, yet divorcing couples are confronted with finding the time to fit in things they would not normally need to do, like meeting with attorneys and working on post-divorce budgets.

I recently discovered an author named Jon Kabat-Zinn whose book Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life can be useful to people going through a divorce – or any stressful event. Mindfulness is ...