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Category Archives: Divorce Health & Wellness
Helping Children Through Divorce, by Divorce Coach Betsy Ross, LICSW, CGP
The Divorce Collaborative LLC of Medway and Attleboro Massachusetts is pleased to introduce our colleague and guest blogger, Betsy Ross, LICSW, CGP. Betsy is a Massachusetts divorce coach and a member of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. Betsy’s expertise in collaborative divorce coaching, couples/family therapy, and group dynamics helps her to assist clients in emotionally managing the difficult feelings associated with divorce, establish healthy co-parenting skills, and plan for a better life going forward. Betsy has offices in Stoughton and Sharon, MA. What can you do to minimize the negative effects of divorce on your children and your family life? Here [...]
Collaborative Divorce, Divorce Mediation Provides More Lasting Benefits, by Steve McDonough, Esq.
Turn marital conflict into lasting solutions If someone casually approached you at the mall and asked you if you preferred dispute resolution or conflict resolution, how might you answer? Probably something like “get away from me you big weirdo!” It is an interesting question however, and one I never quite considered in the way described in an interesting article by Seattle, WA collaborative divorce lawyer J. Mark Weiss concerning the differences between dispute resolution and conflict resolution. The article, posted on Mark’s blog, is a reminder about the differences between just getting through your divorce, versus actually resolving some of the [...]
What Do We Make? by Steve McDonough, Esq.
I was watching television earlier tonight - on Valentine’s night as a matter of fact – and saw a commercial for BMW automobiles. It was a fairly long spot during the olympics, right after I decided that I will never try skiing moguls. I don’t even think I would want to walk on them. The announcer on the commercial mentioned that of course BMW makes cars, but what they really make is joy. The ad showed lots of pictures of happy people in BMWs. I thought it was a good commercial, and then wondered as a divorce lawyer and mediator, [...]
Tips for Surviving the Holidays During and After Divorce by Steve McDonough, Esq.
The Holiday season is upon us. Some people, like my mom for instance, love the holidays. Decorating is a multi-week process and there are so many ornaments on the tree that she and my step-father must deploy a support cable attached to a nearby wall to help hold it up. It is about what you would expect to see on a large suspension bridge. Between December 1st and the end of January (we have lots of January birthdays in the family) I estimate that my mother will host or attend (mostly host) somewhere in the area of 624 social events. [...]
Free Divorce Seminar on Wednesday, December 9 at TDC
Just a reminder that The Divorce Collaborative will be sponsoring a free seminar on Wednesday, December 9th at 7:00 pm, at our offices located at 77 Main Street, Medway, MA. For more information and to register, please visit the info box to the right. We are pleased to have Dr. Sandy Portnoy, noted divorce coach and therapist, joining us to discuss the effects of divorce on kids, among other things. The next monthly seminar date is January 6, 2010. Seminars are conducted on the 2nd wednesday each month at 7:00 pm. Please check the site for updates.
Stay Happily Married Podcast – Spouse Going Back to School
Attorney Lee Rosen is the owner of The Rosen Law Firm in North Carolina. I worked at his firm right out of law school in what I now term “the southern experiment.” Rosen Law Firm also sponsors the Stay Happily Married website. Besides being a successful and insightful divorce attorney and business owner, Lee is an expert in law firm technology and marketing. This podcast reminded me of how much fun it was going to school at night while married to a working spouse and with two small children. Luckily, having a patient and supporting spouse made [...]
Suggested Reads
There are two books that I frequently suggest to clients with school-age children, so I thought it might be helpful to reference them in a short post. An overwhelming amount of material exists on divorce, some of it good and some of it harmful. When you do find a helpful resource, don’t foget to share it with your spouse as early in the process as possible. The first is The Good Divorce by Constance Ahrons, Ph.D. This book provides valuable information for families making the transition from a nuclear family to a “binuclear” family that spans two households while [...]
Is Your Lawyer Adding to Your Stress?
Below is a picture of a client waiting for their lawyer or mediator to call them back. I was going to edit out their skull to protect their identity, but I guess that is not really necessary. I think they have waited a pretty long time for a call back, perhaps a little too long! It seems as though almost every week I speak with someone who tells me about a person they know who had a lawyer for something and the lawyer failed to return the client’s telephone calls. Of course, they are not referring to me because I [...]
The Divorce Coach (DC) = Damage Control (DC)
I recently received a comment from fellow attorney Nancy Van Tine the other day related to my post Maintain Your Divorce Sanity! Nancy’s blog is the Massachusetts Divorce Law Monitor. Nancy commented that she has never heard of a Divorce Coach, or as I sometimes refer to them in an effort to sound hip as a “DC.” Nancy is an experienced divorce lawyer in Boston, so I think it is safe to say that if she is not sure just what a DC does, then there are lots of other people that are unfamiliar as well. So, who are [...]
Maintain Your Divorce Sanity!
Everyone knows that a divorce is stressful, but there are some steps you can take to better manage the anxiety surrounding the process. I was orginally going to call this post “The Top 10 Ways to Maintain Your Divorce Sanity” but I really felt the need to have #11. I am sure there are other good suggestions that I left off this list, so please send along any other suggestions. Also, this post assumes you were mostly sane prior to your divorce commencing. Well, here we go: 1. Realize that your divorce is your divorce. It is not your [...]
