Children Don’t Have To Be Another Name On a Wall (Lessons from a Veteran Co-Parent!) ‘Co-Parenting’ a word that ends up creating a entire new life for divorcing parents! Yes, I think many parents that are divorcing think that when the divorce is over, their life will be easier, better, and they will be able […]
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Fun Tips YOU Can Do With Your Children This Month This month can be stressful, busy, confusing, and costly for parents and even more so for parents who are divorcing or divorced and co-parenting! There are last minute changes, multiple transitions, blended family dynamics, and in general, higher levels of emotions over the holidays. Here […]
ARE YOU HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING YOUR OPTIONS AND POSSIBILITIES? Â During this heat wave, I woke up in the middle of the night with my hands so swollen and my ring finger hurting because the three rings I wear on my wedding finger were cutting off my circulation. I tried getting the rings […]
ARE YOU FEELING CAUGHT UP IN THE SHOW? Happy 4th of July!!! It occurred to me that this wonderful day of celebrating with fireworks all around us is also a visual representation of what many people divorcing are feeling: they want to explode, go off, and have a hard time controlling their emotions! Divorce […]
8 Steps To Getting Unstuck Take a look at this list. Does any of it sound familiar? Your co-parent is still controlling, harassing, or using manipulation with you Your co-parent is extra uncooperative, accusatory, confrontational, or trashing you A new partner is interrupting the communication between you and your co-parent or the rules suddenly have […]
Lessons Learned As A Business Consultant In the business consulting world clients hire you to help them solve a problem or make a change that they have not been able to do themselves. This may be due to limitations in resources, time, knowledge, or culture. As ‘The Consultant’ the employees are NOT happy to see […]
Parallels between High-Wind Storms AND High Conflict Personality Types I’ve lived in enough geographic areas to have experienced gorgeous sunny days, low-key rainy days, freak lightning storms, to dangerous sleet, snow, floods, crazy high winds over 80 miles per hour, and yes, even FIRES!  During our most recent high wind storm, this thought came to me…..going […]
Welcome to the world of co-parenting, where so many emotions, feelings, and thoughts get wrapped up in one little word! It is normal to find it easy to relate and communicate with some people and harder with others. For most of us, this new phase of relating to ‘our kids’ other parent’ is going to […]
My husband and I have a funny thing between us – I will continually come up with possibilities for our life and talk with him about them and he will say to me… ‘Janet, why are there so many things to think about, it’s too many options!’ And just like that, our joint brainstorming session […]
Happy Holiday Season to All! This time of year is perfect for reflection, slowing down, being with friends and family, and appreciating all the wonderful experiences in our lives. I don’t know about you, but it wasn’t always this way for me. In years past, I was filled with a sense of obligation and responsibility running […]