Good Divorce Advice: Keep Divorce Issues and Work Life Separate
Divorce can sometimes become so overwhelming that it threatens to sabotage all aspects of life, including career. To maintain your professional life despite your personal issues, you need to prioritize things at work. Here are three quick tips from experts.
1. Keep your divorce private. Avoid telling anyone at work unless they need to know for business reasons. “Keep your personal life to yourself. That will make it much easier to leave your divorce stress out of the office,” says Tina B. Tessina, a licensed psychotherapist.
2. Separate work life from home life. “When you get in your car at home, shut the car door on the divorce — give yourself that drive time to escape the divorce problems, ” Tessina says. “When you leave work, shut the work door on work problems, and don’t take them home. If you compartmentalize like this, you’ll get some relief and your problems won’t overlap.”
3. Consider cry breaks. By lunchtime, consider taking a 3-minute cry break, says LeslieBeth Wish, a psychologist. “Go into a bathroom stall or go sit in your car and have a little cry. Crying out your hurt rids your body of stress toxins.”
 This is a guest post by Judy Smith. Judy specializes in helping women create a new life after divorce. She uses experience and skills acquired over a lifetime to help divorced people transform their lives. Get the personalized help you need by joining her Divorce Coaching Club.
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