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High Conflict Divorce: Should I Stay or Should I Go? before divorce best divorce tips considering divorce divorce divorce advice Jun 27, 2022

 

While all decision during divorce are challenging, deciding whether to stay and mend your marriage or to divorce is one of the most stressful and emotionally charged.  It is often drenched in judgement, shame, guilt, fear and uncertainty.

Today we help you to unweave your fears and limiting b...

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Healthy Romantic Relationships: 4 Pillars of Successful Romantic Relationships creating healthy relationships dating dating after divorce divorce healthy relationships new relationship Jun 24, 2022

Welcome back to our Series on Healthy Romantic Relationships. Today we are chatting with Emmy Hernandez about the “4 Pillars to a Romantic Relationship’.  Emmy shares her FORMULA for engaging in and enjoying an “Epic Relationship.”  We talk about playfulness, sexiness, nurturing and your ‘boss ba...

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High Conflict: How I Reclaimed My Sanity, Self Esteem and My Life! after divorce before divorce beyond divorce high conflict divorce high conflict marriage Jun 20, 2022

 While navigating divorce, fear of the unknown often drives us to replace our uncertainty with a catastrophic worst case scenario about our future. However, our greatest fears rarely come true.  Today’s session is designed to provide you with hope and encouragement as you hear one woman’s journey...

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JBD Team Talks: Letting Go Part II: But HOW do I Let Go? after divorce beyond divorce letting go Jun 17, 2022

So much of our suffering is due to the voices in our head...the stories of how we have been wronged, or what is happening is bad or the certainty of why s/he did that thing...the 'why' placing us squarely in the victim seat.

Divorce is painful, when we suffer, it is our own doing as a result of ...

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High Conflict: The Vital Role Forgiveness Plays in Healing after divorce forgive forgiveness high conflict divorce high conflict marriage Jun 13, 2022

The psychological impact of living with a HCP crushes your self esteem often leaving you, the spouse insecure, reactive and bitter.  Dr. Gayle Reed shares how forgiveness is a healing balm for the spouse of the HCP.  She explains the traumatic impact of verbal and emotional abuse and the psycholo...

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JBD Team Talks: Divorce Grief: How to Honor, Process and Grow Through Grief best divorce tips divorce grief grief Jun 10, 2022

 

When we are faced with divorce, we go through a grief process. The death of our marriage brings the loss of the hopes and dreams we had as a couple, the loss of our normal family life, friends, community, etc. Grief is the normal reaction to loss. And, no two people will grieve their losses in...

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High Conflict: How to Communicate To Get What You Want from a Narcissist creating healthy relationships divorce coach high conflict divorce high conflict marriage high personality Jun 10, 2022

 As we began discussing in our last episode, communicating with a high conflict personality (HCP) is often frustrating and fruitless, and leaves us feeling angry, exhausted and unheard.

Today’s episode offers a unique and powerful approach to communicating with a narcissist that enables you to pro...

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High Conflict: How to Remain Peaceful, Productive and Professional after divorce best divorce tips beyond divorce high conflict divorce high conflict marriage Jun 10, 2022


Today’s powerful episode gives you the strategies and tools needed to communicate more effectively with your spouse’s high conflict personality.  You have been struggling with criticism, deflection, blaming and black and white thinking.  You have doubted your own version of reality, lost your sel...

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Healthy Romantic Relationships: Know Your Personal Operating Style creating healthy relationships dating dating after divorce healthy relationships romantic relationships Jun 10, 2022



Welcome to Today’s Episode: Know Your Personal Operating ‘Style’ and That of Your Partner’s.  

We have a great conversation for you today with Sandy Weiner who brilliantly highlights how important the little things are.  She shares the value of a ‘Personal Operating Manual’ which she developed for h...

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Voices of Celebration: I Found Myself, He Got Sober and Everyone's Better! after divorce before divorce emotional growth life after divorce sobriety Jun 08, 2022

Molly knew early on in her marriage that things were not good. She experienced emotional abuse and walked on eggshells to 'keep the peace' with her new spouse. When their child arrived, things got worse as she needed to focus more on the baby than on dad.

Once she decided to divorce, she began s...

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High Conflict Divorce: How to Heal from Self Love Deficiency (Codependence) high conflict high conflict divorce high conflict marriage high personality Jun 06, 2022

 

Today’s episode is dedicated to your healing journey. Those of us who marry HCPs have our part in the dysfunction as we discussed in episode 2 - Divorcing A Narcissist: The Personality Disorders and Dysfunctional Dance of High Conflict Marriages. 

We are excited to have Ross Rosenberg with us a...

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JBD Team Talks: The Practice of Noticing and Letting Go after divorce before divorce best divorce tips letting go Jun 03, 2022



Divorce offers a plethora of opportunities to get triggered, react and then remain upset. Today's talk is about the difference between the pain of divorce and the suffering so many of us experience. The difference is your ability to take responsibility for your emotional reaction and ultimately let...

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