4 Steps That Actually TRAIN Your Brain to Choose Happiness
Stop psyching yourself out of happiness. Can you “decide” to feel truly happy? According to research from the Mayo clinic, the answer is a resounding yes! Great, right? According to the study, the key to happiness is to focus your attention on the positive. Simple, got it. But wait … it’s not that easy, is it? (Or we’d…
Read MoreNew York Times: “How to Divorce” is Changing for Women
The “newspaper of record,” the New York Times is shedding light on how to divorce and how it’s changing. Women are no longer navigating it alone in a desperate, anxiety-ridden journey. Allying themselves with a partner, a team, a tribe, women are moving through this major life-challenge differently. Read about SAS in Penelope Green’s NYTimes piece, A New Cadre…
Read More8 Things Divorced Moms Want Divorcing Moms to Know
Does it seem like your life will never, ever get better? With each day and each new challenge you face, does it feel like every single solution centers on you? How can you possibly tackle all of these challenges, when you don’t know the first thing about what you are doing right now? You are…
Read MoreThe Acceptance of Rejection: How to Rebound After You’ve Been Dumped
Being dumped and seeking out divorce advice is one of the top five reasons women go for therapy—at least for those women who have an inkling that there might be some help for their depression, their anxiety, or the acting out that often follows their being left. For being rejected presses all our buttons with…
Read MoreSAS’ Divorce Coaching Celebrated in Porter Magazine
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Read MoreThinking About Divorce? Important Steps to Be Prepared
Divorce or separation tends to be one of those situations that women don’t plan for because, well, we don’t want to assume the worst. We operate under the assumption that everything will be fine. It’s when things suddenly aren’t fine and we start thinking about divorce that we realize, in hindsight of course, that we could have taken some…
Read MoreUnderstand Your Divorce Attorney: A Glossary of Legal Terms
Sometimes do you feel that the kind of divorce help you need means hiring a translator? Do your eyes glaze over as soon as your divorce attorney starts talking? Does it sound like s/he is speaking Latin? You aren’t alone. Divorce is complicated and the law does have a very specific language. But that doesn’t mean you…
Read MoreTraveling Solo as a Single Woman
Let’s face it, sitting on the sofa and rehashing all that has befallen you will only get you so far. Like, to the refrigerator? What else might be possible for you? Have you considered a change of venue – a place free from what you have known. Magical things can happen in your heart and mind…
Read MorePoor Little Rich Women?
As a working Upper East Side mother (and for many years before, residing there as stay at home mom) I read with amusement Wednesday Martins’ recent New York Times essay on her culture shock in living among the moneyed mothers of this demographic. I say “amusement” as in the same kind of titillation I derive (but…
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