Life After Divorce

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My Life After Divorce: The Unexpected Gifts

Imagining life after divorce

For me, life after divorce is when time shifted. In fact, I measure things now in terms of  “A.D.” (after divorce) as opposed to “W.H.” ( — while I was “with him”). And A.D.? It’s my current epoch, and let me reassure you, A.D. is good. But, you might be in another place right now, and…

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Self Care after Divorce: Loving Our Bodies, Ourselves

Self care after divorce means listening to your inner music

Taking care of ourselves can be challenging on our best days. Work, children, aging parents, pets, email, the car, smartphones—all of them competing in a dizzying buzz for our attention. Yet, self care after divorce is crucial. There’s no one around to casually remind you it’s time for another teeth cleaning or that you seem…

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How to Recover from Divorce Emotionally

Woman talking about her divorce recovery

You’ve heard it before, divorce can be as stressful as losing someone to death. Except death is final. The person is gone. So for those who never wanted the divorce, who continue to struggle, trying to recover from divorce emotionally, that lack of closure — still knowing your ex is around — can be more…

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Why Is Going Back to Work So Hard?

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Perhaps it’s because the finances are getting tight … or the kids have gone off to college (and that was always the plan anyways); or maybe you’ve taken a break for medical reasons. Or, you have to go back to work, because you got divorced, and you have to support yourself now. Or maybe you’ve…

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Life After Divorce: 6 Dating Tips on How to Show Up

Life after divorce dating can challenge your confidence.

You might be thinking about dating now that you’ve arrived here in this land of the unknown, your life after divorce; and this particular aspect of it can be intimidating, exciting, and frankly, straight-up terrifying. When my marriage ended I was, or so I thought, eager to start dating, and I set up an online…

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Life After Divorce: 5 Steps After the Divorce Document is Signed

Woman in tub considering her life after divorce

Once the divorce paperwork is finalized, it’s time. Time to begin metabolizing all you’ve been through; time for you to breath and shift your head to consider what your life after divorce will truly mean. Where do you begin? You’ve just navigated — nay, survived! one of the toughest experiences someone could ever go through.…

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