Self-Management You probably did not know you could feel such rage. I certainly did not. Secrets and lies are almost always central to a divorce. That loss of control over our personal life leaves us crushed, defeated and angry. Not only is
Has your personal life been upended as the result of a marriage breakup? Are you longing to get beyond the painful dazed and confused feeling that surrounds you? There is a path forward to your divorce recovery. I know this to be
When most people think about Wills, it’s usually the more traditional Will that is created for the purpose of ensuring that their estate and assets are treated and/or shared appropriately when an individual passes away. There are however, several different types of
The Dress The colours in this portrait are in sharp contrast, bumping up against each other, cold and bold The kitchen window frames my single silhouette in this scene, the pose rigid and frigid How am I feeling? Relief – a decision
There are moments in life that we never forget. They are markers -there was a before and an after and life was never the same. That night many years ago when my marriage ended was just such a moment in my life.
‘fame is no talisman against human pain ..adultery is still adultery’ wrote Julia Cameron in her book The Right to Write. It was in reference to her very public divorce from Martin Scorsese in the 1970s and his very public affair with
When we divorce we lose a partner and we lose a shared history connected by people, objects and memories. This profound sense of loss is often the result of the hurt and haste in the leaving. A friend describes how it happened
Your partner has asked for a divorce and this great void called the future you didn’t expect is swallowing you up. You feel like every part of your life is crumbling. There are more questions than answers. Perhaps the most important task
The end of many marriages can be very traumatic. So traumatic in fact, that were you to visit a doctor and describe your symptoms they might say you have a form of PTSD. I term it– PTMD (Post Traumatic Marriage Disorder). Many
He had a closet full of secrets and now I had to move forward alone. My whole marriage had been a threesome or more unbeknownst to me. His rationale-family life was never impacted because what he did outside the family home did
Toward the end of the second decade of my marriage, he surprised me with a 40th birthday party. My underlying thought from that night was that he must really love me. I could not understand why I might have doubted him. It is
Emotional abuse is silent and unseen. There’s no visible scars or bruising because the pain is all inside you. It is no less painful because it is invisible. It happens behind closed doors, in private with few witnesses. For me, it all