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divorce support

Divorce Recovery Strategies : The Positive Side of Pain

October 31, 2008

When you become deeply involved in a love relationship, you expose a part of yourself that very few people will ever know.  A famous psychiatrist calls this, “the courage of love”.  —-and this is why you feel so much pain when a love relationship ends.
While there have been – or still are – many painful [...]

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Divorce Healing and Recovery

October 29, 2008

Part of the divorce recovery process is to begin healing from the emotional wounds inflicted not only during the course of your marriage, but also the emotional wounds inflicted as part of the divorce process.
Hanging on to the past is probably one of the biggest obstacles most people have in healing and recovering from divorce.  [...]

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How to Recover from Divorce: Learn Then Practice Self-Management

October 20, 2008

By Judy Smith, Divorce Coach
In Coping with Divorce: Change Your Brain -Change Your Life, I talked about how changing the way you think is a first step in the process of self-management.  Now that we know you can change your brain, we know you can change your thinking by consciously using different (specifically worded) phrases [...]

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Five Tips for Helping Friends Handle Your Divorce

October 8, 2008

If you’re going through a divorce, you certainly know hurt, anger and fear. Most likely, you’ve leaned on your friends for support.   But the death of a “couples” friendship can leave your friends lost and confused. Caught up in your own overpowering emotions because of your divorce, you might not see your friend’s distress [...]

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When Friends Divorce: How Could They Do This to Me?

October 3, 2008

Because we’re in so much pain during and after divorce, we usually don’t even think about how our friends are reacting to it.  Actually, your divorce has a major impact on your friends.
As a divorce coach, my clients tell me  stories about friends’ resentment, grief, anxiety – even anger.  Your divorce forces your friends to [...]

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Divorce Recovery Advice: Tip #3 – Divorce Support

October 1, 2008

One of the best reasons to cultivate supportive relationships as a part of your divorce recovery is that those divorce support resources can provide clear and unbiased advice on keeping you priorities in order!
Many people find divorce devastating both emotionally and financially.  It’s been said that the only financial winners in any divorce are the [...]

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