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How To Make Summer Co-Parenting a Breeze
Winter, spring, summer and fall, sharing kids with an ex is bound to have its challenges but summer may be particularly tricky as some parenting plans only broadly address extracurriculars and do not speak to the specifics of summer. It’s unfortunate as summer vacation brings forth an array of opportunities for families to create lasting memories and have fun during a time of year where pressure is lower. Don’t make this mistake. This post lists out six questions to address in your summer custody schedule and parenting plan.
Five Tips for a Smooth Transition Between Two Homes
Helping your children transition between two homes after divorce is essential in promoting as healthy a dynamic as possible and reducing the emotional strain of divorce. As divorced parents, we are often given the advice to strive for a business-like relationship with an ex. This applies to everything from communication to operations. Streamlining the process by which you hand your children off to your ex can be viewed as conducting business.
Uncomfortable Questions
In even the most amicable of circumstances, divorce is still a transition that may call for more than a self-help book, a do-it-yourself program or google. Private coaching can be a game-changer. If you show up to each session, commit to the process and complete the action steps in between, you will notice considerable improvement in your confidence and decision making, hit milestones and feel an overall sense of leaning into your best self.
What Does a Divorce Coach Do and Why Do I Need One?
Coaching, particularly during divorce, is anything but superfluous and rather specialized support to help you get from where you are now to where you want to be as you navigate closing one chapter and starting another. In fact, I would go so far as to say that engaging a good coach can save you time, money and unnecessary stress in the long run by dealing with the emotional fallout of divorce at a much lower hourly rate than a lawyer.
Do You Have a Happy Place?
My suitcase is packed, ready to return to my girls refreshed, and with all kinds of goodness to inspire the mental journey to my happy place. Let’s face it, with the challenges of single parenting, coparenting and navigating the realities of divorce, I will be drawing on this useful cognitive tool a lot.
Emotional Regulation During Divorce and it’s Aftermath
I wound up as a single-parent in my early forties, out-numbered by button-pushing, tantrummy and back-talking little humans, triggered by them and triggered by their other parent. It became essential to have coping mechanisms on hand to control my rising temper, especially since the responsibility of modeling mature behavior mostly fell onto me as their primary caregiver.
Five Reasons a COVID Divorce Was the Best Kind of Divorce
The ending of my marriage, my divorce and its aftermath synched up perfectly with the timing of COVID. An oddly named virus gained increasing media attention at the exact point I was forced to admit my marriage had reached a point of no return.