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Divorce: Helping Economically Stressed Families
Collaborative Divorce Institute is offering the first-ever training in the Streamlined Protocols for Collaborative Divorce, January 10-12. These new protocols train the team of professionals to directly and efficiently guide, coach and educate the clients. The clients are thoroughly prepared within their team to skillfully communicate with each other and resolve their divorce as they set their sights for a brighter future. Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Divorce, Uncategorized
Tagged alternative dispute resolution, anger management, anxiety, children, coach, collaboration, communication, conflict, depression, dispute, divorce, family, family law, health, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, mediation, mental health, parenting, recession, relationships, resilience, worry
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A Mid-Century Man
My baby brother is officially a mid-century man. He is turning fifty. How he got there is beyond me. Nine years my junior, it seems like only yesterday when he was a toddler, crawling up and down the narrow little … Continue reading
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Tagged baby-boomers, birthday, children, fifty, health, inspiration, male sibling, new york university, nuclear, siblings, travel, turning fifty, vantage point
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The Gender Revolution
We are in the midst of a powerful sociocultural shift: a Gender Revolution. No longer can we ascribe the same old traits for purposes of defining gender. Continue reading
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Tagged baby-boomers, children, collaboration, communication, family, gender, health, mental health, parenting, peace, resilience, women
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Mother’s Day and Mythology
For many children, Mother’s Day is a myth. It is a fantasy; an idea or illusion a child wistfully carries in their mind, but never truly experienced. The population of these children who are older, are the ones who linger by the Hallmark cards for long periods of time: reading and replacing; reading and replacing. They finally settle for some benign message that ultimately says “Have a Nice Day”, but nothing more. Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Divorce, Just Stop!, Necessary Conversations, The Bridge to I Am, Uncategorized
Tagged anger, anxiety, children, communication, conflict, family, health, mental health, mother, Mother's Day, motherhood, parenting, Post Traumatic Stress, recovery, relationships, victims
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Compliant Children of Divorce: Unwanted Lessons Learned
Children of divorce probably watch their parents lead by example more closely than the general population of children. Why? Because they simply do not know what to do, what to say, or how to feel. They may have heard the word “divorce”, but may have very limited internal resources with which they can make sense of the concept. Continue reading
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Tagged alternative dispute resolution, children, coach, collaboration, conflict, death, divorce, family, family law, feelings, health, inspiration, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, mental health, parenting, recovery, relationships, resilience, stress, victims
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Holiday Stress: Not Very Merry
The American Psychological Association conducted a study in 2006 and found that while 78% of respondents reported feeling often happy around the holidays, about two-thirds sometimes or often felt stressed and fatigued. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, anxiety, children, conflict, family, feelings, health, holiday blues, holiday stress, holidays, mental health, peace, recovery, relationships, resilience, stress, trauma, work, worry
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My Mother’s Father: A Deliberate and Gentle Life
This Father’s day, my mind does not go to my late father who literally ran himself into an early grave by overdoing anything and everything he did. God rest his soul; he lived addictively and it cost him his life. … Continue reading
Posted in The Bridge to I Am, Uncategorized
Tagged baby-boomers, children, family, fathers, feelings, grandfathers, health, parents, peace
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Mothers Know Compassion as the Purest Form of Love
Compassion is very dear, greatly valued and becoming so increasingly rare; people would pay high hourly rates to mental health professionals just to get some. Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, children, dispute, family, feelings, heal, health, mental health, mothers, peace, recovery, suffering, trauma, victims
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Expressing Emotions Increasing in Popularity
I have long proclaimed that if you don’t have your feelings, they will have you. Sure enough, research demonstrates that suppressing emotions can have serious health consequences, both physically and psychologically. Continue reading
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Tagged baby-boomers, children, coach, communication, divorce, family, feelings, health, mental health, parenting, stress, trauma, victims
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Impasse in Conflict Resolution Originates from Within
In my experience, Impasse in any negotiation is an outward expression of an unresolved and unconscious internal impasse or historical conflict that exists within an individual. Continue reading
