New Year? New start? A New Sense of Self Post Divorce!

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf You know what I love about New Year’s? Not the parties, not the silly hats, not the streamers and confetti. I enjoy the days of relative calm leading up to the first, and on New Year’s Eve, I still delight in counting down to midnight, watching the ball drop in [...]

Ask The Divorce Coach: No Longer Connected

Question: Dear Shelley, I have been married for four years. It is my first marriage and his second.  He continually says things to me like, “this ship has sailed”, “you and I don’t connect at all” and “our marriage is failing 100% because of you.”  So I tell him I want to work out an [...]

How to Handle your Emotions during Divorce

Submitted by Divorce Coach Shelley Stile Divorce brings out the lunatic within us. Rage, anger, depression, sadness, resentment and blame are just some of negative emotions running the show. Your emotional state is hard to pin down from one moment to the next. This is not the best state of mind to be in when [...]

Legal Action Can Help Mold A Child-Like Ex Into A Better Man

Submitted by Delaine Sometimes dealing with an ex can feel like you’re dealing with a child:  you give and give and give….you kindly explain the same thing over and over and over again …yet still they don’t ‘get it.’ And though it’s sad to say - and painful to have to do - sometimes we have to [...]

The Transformational Power of Emotional Pain

Submitted by: Malou I have been living a life short of a fairy tale until that fateful day last year. A job, a wonderful husband, a delightful daughter, a big house complete with a garden, a whole room dedicated just for my clothes and shoes….I was a princess!! The only thing missing was a dog [...]

Facial Yoga: Eliminate Wrinkles the Natural Way

In New York City, Annelise Hagen, a devoted yogi, former actress and author of The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift, runs a weekly facial yoga class. Hagen says she started to develop her face-based technique when she realized that her students, mostly well-to-do, well-educated professionals, were practicing yoga but getting Botox [...]

What has to happen for any marriage to survive infidelity? Case Study: Elizabeth/John Edwards

Article courtesy of Suzy Brown In he book, Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities, Elizabeth Edwards writes about her reaction to husband John Edward’s affair. According to Edwards she “cried, screamed and went to the bathroom, and threw up”. “I spent months learning to live with a single incidence of [...]

Top 5 Eye Creams: Say Goodbye to Crow’s Feet

Submitted by: Cathy File this under “sad but true”: The first signs of aging—crow’s-feet—show up earlier than we ever realized. In happier news, the right eye cream can make all the difference. It has been years since those first fines lines around the eyes or crows feet started showing on my face. Not being a [...]

The Friendship Equation: Never Discount the Value of Girlfriends During and After Divorce

Submitted by: Big Little Wolf Can family help when you’re going through divorce? You bet. But when it comes to this particular bumpy road and the months that follow, don’t discount the importance of friends. Don’t get me wrong – family is fantastic – and the more supportive they are, the better. Have kids? You’re [...]

New Years Resolution: No More Husband Bashing

Submitted by: Cathy Do you find yourself dialing a friend to vent at every twist and turn of your dreadful, never ending divorce? Ok gals, I can remember going through my divorce and having diarrhea of the mouth about every foul thing my ex did – and you know what? It didn’t make me feel [...]

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