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coping with divorce

Divorce Recovery Advice: Take Care of Yourself

August 4, 2009

The time in Divorce Recovery impacts your health.  The best Divorce Advice:  Take care of yourself.
The statements above are surely not new to anyone trying to recover from the trauma of divorce.  I am posting the information below because it so clearly points out what we may already know, but can so easily forget to [...]

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Helpful Divorce Advice: How to Channel Anger

August 3, 2009

The emotional response to divorce can bring unwelcome, and often surprising, changes in how you react to situations.
Suddenly, you may find yourself lashing out in anger about things that before, wouldn’t have caused even a hitch in your day. Afterward, you may find yourself embarrassed or even a little shaken by your uncharacteristic response.

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Bringing Emotions Under Control After Divorce: The Metaphor of the Mustard Seed

July 29, 2009

When divorce comes into your life, anger usually comes with it. Anger can come in waves or in different sizes and shapes. Today, I would like to quote a psychologist on looking at ways to identify those waves and how to deal with them.
It is said that anger is a wasted emotion; it doesn’t [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Your New Life After Divorce

July 28, 2009

After a divorce, we experience such self-doubt that we often try to protect what remains of our egos and do it by putting up a front to the outside world.  At first, it often feels that this outward show is making things easier for us. But what we soon find is that this mask – [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Real Estate

July 23, 2009

I saw another article with financial advice for men and women trying to start over after divorce that I want to share with you …………….
(from Newsday.com) Some couples have decided to live in their marital homes after divorce until real estate prices recover. That can be difficult, but (a N.Y. attorney) said in some cases, [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Finances

July 20, 2009

In these troubled economic times, I have heard from a number of women who would like to ‘get out from under’ their unhappy marriages, but feel financial pressures keep them locked in.  The best divorce advice I can give here is that staying in an unhappy marriage is not a good solution; there are other [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Support

July 17, 2009

So many times, hearing a particular song can catch us off guard and set us back emotionally when we’re trying to move forward after divorce.  I saw this advertisement for an album by Charlie Robison that charts his emotional path from the shock of divorce to his ultimate recovery from it.  I thought, “how comforting [...]

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