By Lisa Brick

If you are co-parenting through this pandemic there are certain facts to keep in mind regarding Covid-19 infections and the threat these infections pose you and your loved ones. While more is being learned about the virus every day there is a certain body of understanding that is look...

By Lisa Brick

“Parents, although your hearts may ache and lots of courage it may take, be brave, it’s for your children’s sake, your courage will see you through.” 

- When You Hear the Siren Blow, a “safety song” written for the children of America during WWll (with slightly altered last line)

It...

By Lisa Brick


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Being married to a narcissist undermines your happiness, your ability to discern what is true, your ability to par...

Loving yourself enough to say, “I count too!”

If you want to find someone to love you, you must first love yourself.  How do you do that when everyone is demanding your time?

It is important to realize your role in ‘training’ your loved ones (children, spouse) to expect selflessness from you…as th...

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde

The first challenge in self loving is to stay in your own head.  If you think about being self loving and immediately focus on what everyone else will say, think and do, you will defeat yourself before you begin.  For the sake ...

For many of us, it is hard to tell the difference between selfless, selfish and self-love.  We see our selflessness as a good thing, but is it?

Selfless is having, exhibiting, or being motivated by no concern for oneself

If you have always put family and friends first, self love will feel particul...

By Karen McMahon

When I met my husband, I felt like the luckiest woman.  He was smart, charismatic, kind, generous and handsome. We were both in our 30’s and wanted to start a family so in a short 4 years we were engaged, married, bought a house and got pregnant.  Life appeared to be perfect. After...

By Karen McMahon

While most divorces include their fair share of emotional turmoil, stress and contention, high conflict divorce takes it to another level.  There is more black and white thinking, blame and accusation, reactivity, deflecting, defending, and degrading. High conflict divorces arise f...

By Lisa Brick

Money and finances are an ever-present focus in adult life and a central and almost always thorny aspect of divorce.

Conversations around money and finances are more likely than not a major stress for all involved, and a divisive mess. There is a way to begin CLEANING UP that mess, at...

Updated as of February 2020

There are many women who married young or gave up lucrative careers to have children once they were married.

They often spend most of their marriage helping to support and in some cases build their husband’s careers/businesses in the best interest of the family.

But what ...

Note:  Every state’s laws are slightly different.  This article is written by The Peterson Law Firm of Arizona.

When there are children involved in a divorce, one of the biggest and most important questions is, "Who gets custody of the children?" As the welfare and best interests of the children sh...

If you're engaged in the divorce process while raising teens it makes sense that you might view your teens difficult behavior as an outcome of your divorce or fear that your decision to divorce may lead to higher risks of unhealthy behaviors in your teen.  Studies show that it is the level of con...