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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: 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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Divorce Recovery Advice: Adult Children

July 16, 2009

In my divorce recovery work with women over 50, the dilemma of how to deal with adult children during the divorce process, as well as in life after the divorce -comes up over and over again.  The excerpt from, A Grief Out of Season: When Your Parents Divorce in Your Adult Years gives some good [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Loss of Self-Esteem

July 15, 2009

As a personal coach for divorced women, I know how valuable divorce support can be. This excerpt from The Dancing Doc confirms this notion …………
One of the greatest deterrents to being able to ‘face the music’ of divorce is the loss of self-esteem. The person who has lost identity in a non-supportive marriage, or who [...]

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Divorce Recovery Strategy: Playing Devil’s Advocate

June 26, 2009

One of the most essential parts of divorce recovery is to overcome negative thinking.  Because the entire divorce process is, by nature, incredibly negative – many people – especially women – find themselves struggling to overcome negative thinking as they struggle to recover from their divorce.
Overcoming negative thinking is such an important part of the [...]

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Divorce Recovery – Stopping the Pain in a Snap

June 24, 2009

Recovering from divorce is an ongoing process – and one of the most difficult but essential tasks in your recovery from divorce is to learn to overcome negative thinking.
Divorce is an inherently “negative” process.  Anyone who says any different has obviously never been through a divorce – either their own or someone close to them.
While [...]

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Divorce Recovery: Get firm with negative thinking

June 21, 2009

Divorce is a negative process – so it’s a given that an essential part of divorce recovery is to learn to deal with negativity.
After all, an important part of divorce recovery is to get beyond the negative thinking and get on with your life.
Divorce Recovery Advice: Get Firm with Negative Thinking
SInce your divorce, you [...]

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