Divorce – Mourning and Moving On By Cara Gardenswartz, PhD Because divorce and death involve deep loss, they have many things in common. With divorce, there is grieving for the loss of a family unit and the dream of “what was supposed to be”. The feelings that take place with divorce can often [...]
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Casualty of Divorce – Self Esteem By Lisa Fredette The reason for and the process of divorce is as varied as the shape of snowflakes. There is however a commonality among most divorce survivors – low self-esteem. Almost everyone I have spoken to or have coached around divorce recovery have low self-esteem in [...]
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There are certain events in life that are considered life-altering. Getting married is one of the biggies. Even bigger than that is becoming a parent. Moving to a new area, particularly if it is away from extended family members, is another. Graduating from high school and then college are two more major events in a [...]
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A divorce can be one of the hardest situations to go through because there is such an emotional attachment between everyone that is involved. Usually in a divorce, there are many years of emotional memories that can affect the process of the divorce. The first thing to remember when the divorce is finalized is that [...]
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Book Review – Your Healing Journey Through Grief By Stanley Cornils By Richard R Blake Guidance for Your Personal Journey Through Grief “Your Healing Journey Through Grief” is written in hopes of helping people find better ways of dealing with grief and to help them understand that what they are experiencing is normal, [...]
Divorce stinks! It hurts a lot of people. Your children are hurt because the family they were a part of is over. Both you and your ex-spouse are hurt too. It doesn’t matter if you initiated the divorce or not, some hurt remains. There were hurtful things that happened in the marriage that lead to [...]
Thinking back to when I first realized my wife’s drinking had become unmanageable, I remember the confrontations, the pushing to get her help and the denials that came along with it. I remember finally convincing my wife to enter out-patient rehab. I thought that she would go and get back on the right track, meanwhile [...]
Divorce Advice For Divorced Women By Emma-Louise Smith There’s plenty of divorce advice for divorced women, and in order to succeed in your new life it’s important you look to advice in order to understand what you’re going through, how you can repair your self-image and how you can get on with your [...]
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I remember it was January 5, 2001 when my husband reached the final decision that he was “ready to move on.” It was December of 1998 when he informed me that he “was not happy.” He agreed to go to marriage counseling but was not interested in doing the work. He moved out of our [...]
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Parenting through divorce may feel more challenging during emotional stages accompanied by the transition. The pain of divorce moves through a process that is very much like what happens to us when someone we love dies. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross did extensive work with terminal patients and studied how their feelings changed from the process of initial [...]
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