Study after study shows that parental conflict in divorce is connected to poor outcomes for kids. However, divorce involves many difficult decisions that parents can find quite conflictual. On top of that, the court system is inherently adversarial, designed for prosecuting and defending (perhaps a familiar dynamic in your marriage you’re trying to get away from??!!), which contributes to parents … [Read more...] about Considering Divorce? Here’s What You Need to Know About Divorce With Respect Week
How to Get The Most Out of Your Collaborative Divorce
A Collaborative Divorce provides a unique opportunity to leverage each team member and the whole to move your divorce forward in a way that builds instead of depletes your co-parent relationship, protects the kids and generates agreements through understanding and analyzing information before creating options. The Collaborative Divorce includes attorneys and coaches for each person and one … [Read more...] about How to Get The Most Out of Your Collaborative Divorce
Everything You Need To Know: Talking To The Kids About Your Divorce
What to tell the kids and how to tell the kids are pressing questions on most parents’ minds when it comes to divorce. And for good reason! Your children will remember this moment, how and what they were told, for the rest of their lives. It’s understandable that parents are afraid of their kids’ big emotional reactions in the face of already feeling guilty about the divorce. Parents, … [Read more...] about Everything You Need To Know: Talking To The Kids About Your Divorce
How To Keep Conflict Low In Your Divorce
Tune In to Your Internal Station It’s natural to have a whole bundle of tangled feelings and thoughts about the divorce and leading up to the divorce. Therapy can be one of your best bets in terms of making time and space for yourself and the myriad of thoughts and feelings that are coming in. Listening in on your internal dialogue, having a place to unpack and unfold what is happening inside … [Read more...] about How To Keep Conflict Low In Your Divorce
How To Develop A Great Parenting Plan
One of the most important parts of a parenting plan is the ‘how’ is the ‘who’ doing the ‘how’. Vanilla or 31 Flavors I wish every family had a chance to preview a vanilla parenting plan common in the courts compared to a carefully crafted parenting plan designed by the parents with the help of the collaborative divorce professionals including a child specialist. Vanilla ice cream is the most … [Read more...] about How To Develop A Great Parenting Plan