DFS is a term one of my clients created to describe the way she’s feeling. We both thought it was pretty funny — but completely accurate. Divorce is exhausting! Your mind is in overdrive, trying to wrap itself around all of the new ideas, new decisions, new emotions...
As I was preparing this year’s Thanksgiving dinner, I was thinking back on Thanksgivings past, specifically those Thanksgivings when my boys and I were in the throes of divorce and and the subsequent years of post-divorce custody and visitation battles — that’s 12...
I know you think this is the end of your life. You’re devastated that your marriage is ending. You’re overwhelmed by everything that’s happening. You think you’ll never be happy again. I’m here to tell you it’s not true. I am living proof that your second chapter can...
Where was I when I needed me? I wish I had had a divorce coach when I was going through my divorce. I wish I had had someone to tell me that it was all going to be okay, that everything was going to work out for the best, that my children would ultimately see that...
I just returned from a family trip with my three grown sons. It was a reunion of sorts, and we all spent the weekend meeting and reconnecting with long-lost family members, then spending some wonderful quality time with my mother. At the end of the weekend, the four...
It was my great pleasure to be interviewed on Ange Wilcox’s Woman of Strength TV in New Zealand. (Well, I wasn’t in New Zealand, but that’s the beauty of technology!) Ange has dedicated herself to empowering women by showcasing those who have overcome obstacles to...
