Well, Thanksgiving is done and we’ve survived Black Friday. But we’re not through the holiday abyss yet. Which means we’ll most likely be dreading the stress, craziness and visions of perfection shoved down our throats. For many of us, the holidays can feel dark, lonely, and stressful—especially if we are…
Hello, Friends! Well, we’re in the middle of the first month of the New Year, and by this time, most people’s New Year Resolutions are already out the window. You may have vowed to yourself throughout December that you were going to get up early every morning to hit the…
Hello, Friends! This post comes from our friend Sally Perkins. Ms. Perkins is a professional freelance writer with many years experience across many different areas. She made the move to freelancing from a stressful corporate job and loves the work-life balance it offers her. When not at work, Sally enjoys…
You know that feeling—some of us know it all too well during and after divorce. When one of your children, after spending the weekend with your ex, tells you about the “new friend” that is at the ex’s house. The “friend” that was there the whole weekend, who went out…
First off, a great big THANK YOU to everyone who shared with me in the prior email the things that you are dealing with that are making it hard to move on. For the next couple of months, we are going to explore the most common struggles that we deal…
Hello, Friends! In my neck of the woods, the promise of spring is starting appear. The once-barren trees now have cherry blossoms peaking out. And the air—the type that freezes the inside of your nostrils and hits your chest so it’s hard to breath and hurts your already-chapped face—is little…
Today, I have a divorce gift for you. Alas, it is not a box of chocolate from CVS. Or a tacky Mylar balloon. Hell, I don’t even have any fancy dinner reservations or a bottle of wine for you. But I think I have something more useful. What I have…
Hello Everyone! As we continue our Summer of Feeling Better, there’s another issue that we all feel as we try to nove on from divorce. Feeling lost. There are many times in our lives where we may feel like we are not sure of our paths but it gets even…
Happy Thursday, Friends! It’s been a few weeks and I’ve missed you! This week, let’s take a look at something that can hit us when we least expect it. Loneliness. Loneliness sucks. It’s a horrible feeling to think you have nobody in the world to turn to as you are…
As we move along in our Summer of Feeling Better, this week let’s take a look at another all-too-common emotion that causes us waaaaaaay more headaches than we need right now. Anger. Being pissed off. Feeling rage. To start off with, there is something that you must remember. Anger is…