Staying in a bad marriage can be hell for a lot of reasons. You’re not happy. You feel like you always have to walk on eggshells. Your life is not where you want it to be. What’s worse, you’re not sure how it got to be this bad, or what you can do to change […]
Divorce and Yoga: 10 Surprising Insights For a Zen Divorce
Divorce and yoga. At first blush they seem so different. Yoga and divorce. One is so Zen. The other is about as “un-Zen” as you could possibly get. Yet, as I was trying to balance in Eagle pose yesterday, standing on one leg with my arms and legs wrapped around each other like pretzels and […]
5 Tips to Keep Your Emotions from Driving Your Divorce
Everyone knows that they shouldn’t make important decisions while they are in a highly emotional state. But when you are going through a divorce and everything is highly emotional, what are you supposed to do? You can’t very well refuse to make any decisions until your divorce is over! While you can’t flip a switch […]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Coping With Divorce
One of the things that “the experts” never warn you about when you are going through a divorce is how totally exhausted and overwhelmed you will feel while you struggle through the divorce process. Coping with divorce requires you to juggle what feels like a second job, on top of managing your real job, dealing […]
5 Tips to Help You Deal With Divorce Stress
“Divorce stress” may not be recognized as a bona fide clinical condition by medical doctors, but anyone who has been through a divorce can tell you that divorce stress is real. Sleepless nights, tear-filled days, weight loss, weight gain, depression, and anxiety are just a few of the symptoms that suddenly become your normal state […]
How to Deal With a High Conflict Spouse
Do you avoid talking to your spouse/ex unless you absolutely have no choice because dealing with them is just so draining? Does your ex ridicule, belittle, or scream at you – for everything? Are your spouse’s reactions to any conflict or disagreement way out of proportion to whatever is going on? If you answered “yes” to […]
Awkward Conversations: How Do You Tell People You are Getting a Divorce?
You know the feeling. That grip in the pit of your stomach. That sense of tightness and dread in the middle of your chest as you see a neighbor approaching you a fake, plastic smile fixed firmly on her face. You know what she is thinking, but what are you supposed to say? How do […]
Help! My Divorce is Spinning Out of Control! 5 Tips to Get Back on Track
Do you know the feeling you get after you have been on a carnival ride where you have just been twirled upside down and spun in circles so many times that you want to throw up? It’s that feeling of being so queasy and so unstable that you can’t even stand up, let alone walk, […]
Five Tools To Reduce Divorce Stress: Insights from Divorce Coach Kate Van Dyke
Divorce is one of life’s most stressful events. It is this stress that will derail your concentration, your energy and your ability to negotiate your future. How you manage your divorce stress will have a huge impact on you, your children, your friendships and your financial and parenting outcomes. Here are 5 effective tools to […]