Archive for January, 2010

3 Steps to Achieving a Better Divorce

You’ve heard it before – change your thinking, change your life. It’s true. Many of us don’t realize how much the way we think about things impacts the way our life goes. Sometimes just small tweaks in our thought processes can make big differences in the choices we make. These experiences are those wonderful “Ah-Ha!” moments, when the light bulb goes on and we realize there just might be another way of doing something.

I am on a mission to bring an “Ah-Ha!” moment to people who are thinking about divorcing or who are already in the …

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Top 10 Tips for Parents: Be the Best Parent You Can Be…. ALL the time!

Here’s a list of my Top Ten Tips to help you be the best parent possible during your divorce and after it’s all said and done.  Many parents worry that their children will be forever screwed up because they are divorcing.  Well, to be honest with you, I have seen this happen, and it is typically when the parents behave badly towards each other and say bad things about each other, all in front of the children.

Children will and do adjust to your divorce if you are tuned into their needs and are aware of your own actions.  It’s all …

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It’s All About Power and Control

Domestic Violence.  What is it?  Well, there’s more to it than hitting, or fighting, or cussing or being mean.  It’s more than all of these.  It’s a chronic use and abuse of power.  The abuser does whatever it takes – threats, intimidation, and physical violence – to get and maintain control of his or her partner.

Most people think “domestic violence” is something that happens to other

people, or on TV shows, but not to them or to people they know.  I have had many clients who have come to see me for a consultation and had no idea that the way …

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