ARTICLES FOR COLLABORATIVE TRANSITIONING
A seasoned attorney can serve as your best legal guide to maximize outcomes without sacrificing property, support or custody rights.
If you are considering or facing a divorce, think outside the box. You have the ability to define your experiences upon separating your affairs from those of another whom once you loved.
People enmeshed in divorce tend to think that they should hire the most aggressive divorce attorney they can afford. This is a recipte for disaster.
The emotional benefits of mindfulness in divorce will not only save and protect you, they may resonant far into the future and save and protect everyone with whom you come in contact.
On January 1, 2011, the youngest of the American "Baby Boomers," born between 1946 and 1964, achieves the age of 65.
The power of forgiveness is of immense importance to working with the feelings and difficulties we share in relationship transitions, but it is frequently ignored.
Mindfulness is as old as our experiencing of consciousness, and has been known by many names that all describe the experience.
If you could choose (and you can), what might you want your divorce and its affects on people to look like??
Many victims of domestic violence are dually diagnosed with PTSD and substance dependence (SD).
Shelter from the Storm opened with an emergency shelter of 30 beds in 1993, a staff of 25 employees and paraprofessionals, and two outreach offices.
The focus of our Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution was on individuals, all of them free men. This guaranteed the continuing hegemony of the prevailing social structure of our times, patriarchy.
As a divorce coach, I join with my client in a duet of cooperation. Together we identify the "hot" buttons in the relationship.
Many parents do not prepare their children for their separation and will not talk frankly with their children about what is going on. Children need explanations in order to process events, especially unpleasant events.
My purpose here is to help you understand the stresses and pressures you are feeling are very real, and you need to do something about them before they do something to you.
Now is the time, more than ever before, for you to take time to listen to your children. Time to get to know them as they really are.
Divorce coaching is a joint effort to minimize the stressful adjustment and reorganization of the family.
Men are familiar with feelings of anger. We have felt those feelings since childhood. We believe we know how to handle them. Anger is also our defensive mechanism.
The major difference between divorce coaching and individual therapy is the client and not the coaching or therapeutic process.
Compare the differences between adversarial and the collaborative approach to resolving divorce!
Research shows going through a divorce is the second most stressful period in a person stress comes from many sources.
As each new stage begins we typically assess value to what we are leaving behind, take an overview of what lies ahead, shed prior characteristics and initiate upgraded characteristics to serve us during our next stage.
Problem gamblers use deceit and lies as freely as racing forms, lotto tickets, or other gambling paraphernalia. A person in the grasp of a gambling disorder uses a tremendous amount of secrecy and manipulation.
Treating disordered gamblers is more difficult than most of the alcoholics and addicts I have treated. These aberrant gamblers are usually in their desperation phase and seek treatment later than alcoholics.
There is always hope and help. Reach out and honestly let others know how bad it is. A multitude of individuals have successfully dealt with this and similar problems and are stronger today because of it.
In the course of helping people deal with inconceivably painful losses, I felt powerless. How could I possibly help a mother handle the senseless death of her son in a drive-by shooting - or a wife's pain in coping with the recent death of her husband in an alcohol-related automobile accident?
We are in a transition to a new spirituality, a spirituality for the 21st century. People can exercise their spirituality on many levels. Psychotherapy can often help people heal past wounds and explore the deepest dimensions of themselves. This is our spiritual quest.
The realities of aging can be difficult as well as rewarding. Gay men possess real strengths that can contribute to a positive aging experience. The metaphor of "coming out" can serve as a template for successful aging.
When faced with a divorced parenting situation, parents can take the time to mindfully guide their child through a nurturing solution instead of blindly pushing through their first reaction.
On the first morning of separated-parenting you wake up with a stressed look that has long replaced your smile. " How can I do this?" becomes a very real question.
Articles of General Interest
True meditation has no direction, goals, or method. All methods aim at achieving a certain state of mind. All states are limited, impermanent and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency.
Equanimity is one of the most sublime emotions of Buddhist practice. It is the ground for wisdom and freedom and the protector of compassion and love.
