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5/14/21
Three Steps to Prevent Anger from Destroying Your Relationships and Your HealthAnger is a basic human emotion. But anger can easily become toxic to our health and damaging to our relationships unless it is effectively managed and healthily communicated. Most of us lack these critical skills. But the good news is these are skills that can be learned. Learning how to manage and communicate anger, can save your relationships– with your spouse, child, parent, or close...Read More5/7/21
Four Types of Assets Commonly Overlooked in DivorceDivorcing spouses typically obtain or exchange information about each other’s incomes, assets, and debts acquired during the marriage. This process, called “discovery,” includes things like bank statements, credit card statements, and employment records. Accurate values for assets like your home or business, however, might require outside professionals like appraisers or accountants. While you might be familiar with certain financial assets in your spouse’s name, it’s...Read More4/30/21
Finesse Your Way Through Difficult Conversations with These Four TipsIt can happen to all of us at one time or another. You find yourself in the middle of an argument with the other person yelling at you full throttle in an angry rant. While this type of situation hopefully doesn’t happen often for you, when it does, we’re often ill-equipped to handle them. But how you handle these exchanges can be critical to our...Read More4/23/21
How to Tell Your Spouse You Want a Divorce to Keep things AmicableIf you’ve come to the sad realization that your marriage is over and don’t know how to tell your spouse, this article is for you. You might have put in a lot of hard work and energy to save the marriage, but things just haven’t gotten better. You know you need to move on. And you feel comfortable with your decision. You know it’s time...Read More4/16/21
How to Allow Grief into Your Life: A Personal PerspectiveMy dad passed away just recently. He’d been suffering from Parkinson’s disease in recent years and when dementia kicked in, I made an effort to mentally prepare myself for the worse. But it’s true what they say; no matter how prepared you think you are for a death, you can never be fully prepared for the loss and grief you will experience. It’s what I...Read More4/2/21
Powerful Tips for Managing Family Business Conflicts in Pandemic Times and BeyondWhen we accept that conflict is a part of life, we can move into learning to manage it, or ideally, transform it in a way that brings us closer in our important family and business relationships. Conflict generally happens when there’s a clash of differing perspectives accompanied by strong emotions. Conflict often results from lack of communication or poor communication – when we’re not effectively...Read More3/26/21
Dos and Don’ts of Hiring a Lawyer If You Want an Amicable DivorceIt’s common to come to divorce without wanting to involve lawyers – especially if you want an amicable divorce. After all, lawyers are known for adding conflict to any situation – while charging an arm and a leg just for a phone call. So, if you want your divorce to be amicable, you would naturally be reluctant to hand over a pile of your hard-earned...Read More3/19/21
Hardwiring for Personal Connection: Use this Neuroscientist’s 5 Steps to Change Your BrainAs human beings, we crave love and connection with others. As We feel personal connection when we have shared experiences, relatable feelings, or similar beliefs or opinions. It is when there is a sense of “oneness” and belonging to something greater than ourselves. Yet all too often, connection with others has been lost or is missing – whether as a direct result of the pandemic...Read More3/12/21
Marriage Crossroads: Should You Stay or Divorce?You might feel like you’re living in limbo in your marriage. Maybe you feel that while the marriage is not good, it’s not quite bad enough to divorce. You just don’t know how to move forward. It seems you’ve come to a crossroads in your marriage. You don’t know whether to divorce or stay married. And if you decide to stay married, how can you...Read More3/5/21
Being the Change When Times Are ToughWhen we can no longer change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ~Viktor Frankl Challenges are part of life. We are constantly being hit with new challenges that take many different forms: Difficult people. Losing a job. Marital difficulties and divorce. Sometimes things just suck. And that’s when it can be easy to sing what I call the “if only” blues – if only he didn’t do...Read More