As moms, we have been hardwired to put our needs last on the list. We go to great lengths for our children and want them to have the best that life has to offer. We will even convince ourselves to stay in relationships that no longer serve us out of fear of what we...
It's normal to feel like you are alone after divorce. Feeling like you could be in a room of hundreds of people, yet nobody sees you, the real you. You're not the person you were when you were married, and at the same time, you are trying to rediscover who...
Where do I go from here?" was the question that echoed deep inside of me. "I don't even know who I am anymore. Who am I if I'm not his wife?" He's all I had known for almost nineteen years. We had been together since I was seventeen, and built a life that I thought...
Divorce amplifies the shadow side of ourselves. Those insidious unhealed wounds of not feeling like you are good enough, feelings of comparison and lack, and not feeling loved unconditionally. Divorce is predicated on keeping us stuck in the...
Motherhood was always on my checklist: graduate college, marry the acceptable man, buy a home, build a retirement, travel, and, finally, have children and settle into motherhood. It was what was expected…and because I was “the good girl,” that’s what I did. What...
For those of you that have experienced a divorce, you know how devastating it can be. People have compared divorce to death. I think divorce can be far worse. An unexpected death is final. There's no negotiating it. You don't sit and wrestle with doubt, shame, or...