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Stop. Collaborate and Listen
Have you heard of something called collaborative law? It’s the coolest thing in the divorce world since…I don’t know, there’s not a lot of cool stuff in divorce world. Collaborative law is essentially the idea that you are going to behave like reasonable adults and co-parents from the beginning of your divorce case. In a…
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Retail Therapy
We’ve come up with a lot of coping mechanisms as a society. I read an article today about how something like 60% of spending is to cope with things like anxiety, depression, and boredom. I was just talking with a friend who chuckled telling me about a three-hour rant-filled phone call with a client wherein…
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Who Do You Think You Are?
Do you ever hear people describing you and completely disagree with their assessment? My dad will describe me to people using works like “brave” and “ambitious” and “confident”, and I have no idea who he’s talking about because it most definitely isn’t me. I think of myself as shy and socially awkward. I would call…
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Celebrate the Small Moments
When you’re dealing with hard things, everything feels hard and sad and frustrating and exhausting. But sometimes you can find good small moments in a day full of awful. A friend was recently discussing dealing with the suicide of a long time friend of hers. She felt guilty for laughing at a meme online that…
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(Re)Building Confidence
Sometimes things happen in life that shake us to our core. Other times it’s not any particular incident, but the erosion over time when daily challenges get in the way of our self-care. We find ourselves older and less confident or capable than we’ve ever felt. Often during or after a divorce my clients are…
Handling The Hard Stuff 