Category Divorce

Life After Divorce

Divorce is often costly, and can be devastating for all parties involved – partners, children, parents, and grandparents.

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3 Foolproof Tips for Parents After Divorce

  Do Not Put Children in the Middle After Divorce One minute audio:   After a divorce or split up parents are often tempted to triangulate the relationship with their Ex. Children are put in a terrible position of being stretched between parents. Triangulation is not geometry. It is rather a situation in which one […]

7 Steps to Overcome Your Divorce

Overcoming Divorce from This Emotional Life An emotional support system isn’t all you need to get over your grief. Divorce is said to be on of the most profoundly painful experiences that a human being can survive. . . [read more] Related posts: Top 10 Things to Do When . . ., Grief [a video], […]

Do You Let Others Think for Themselves?

Think For Yourself Taken from Courage to Change published by Al-Anon Family Group Maybe we need many points of view in order to understand life more fully after all, no one person’s view is totally complete. So when my partner, my child, my employer, or friend takes a position unlike my own, I have a […]

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How to Handle Difficult People

Dealing with Nasty or Difficult People This may seem like a strange topic to post on Christmas Eve, however, so many of the women I Coach deal with this issue and Christmas just makes it worse. Click the title above to read my article on Single Matters Magazine today, December 24, 2015. Gail raised three […]

First Christmas Without my Kids

My Classic Christmas Story Published on Single Matters Magazine Today Gail raised three children as a single mother before she remarried. She has experienced the potholes, pests, and perils of being the single head-of-household. As an educator in regular and special education for twenty years she knows a great deal about child development and how […]

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Do You Want Power?

Do You Have Power in Your Life?

Living Learning Loving a new book especially for moms who are parenting alone

Living Learning Loving Lessons of Insight & Encouragement on the Path of Motherhood by Gail Cawley Showalter    

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How to Help Your Child Through the Trauma of Divorce

How single parents can be an ’emotional mentor’ to their kids An article by Linda Ranson Jacobs Mentoring children to manage and handle their emotions is something many of us haven’t thought much about before. Most of us assume kids pick up how to display their emotions from their parents. Few people have ever seriously […]

Top 10 Things You Should Do When You Become Separated

A Shared Post by Krista Smith This is the beginning of a 10 blog series that will briefly explain the top 10 things you should do when you become separated. I hope you find them useful and helpful. I hope you know that I only know these things because I have been there and I […]