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...

When our marriage falls apart we understandably find ourselves filled with fear and anger.  Learning how to grieve and to grieve well is one of the many challenges we face.  According to Tad Blackburn, a Family and Marriage pastor, we have three primary emotions, fear, anger and love.  When we lose ...

Feeling ashamed about the dissolution of your marriage?  Are you  looking at yourself as a failure and fearing others are doing so as well? There’s another perspective awaiting you…

Most of us are paralyzed by failure.  We were given a toxic message about failing, that failing is bad and wrong.  We...

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Summary of Program

Understanding the Divorce Landscape takes a big picture look at what you are facing as you enter the world o...

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Program Summary

This is the first episode in our twelve-part series from Journey Beyond Divorce with Karen McMahon and Lisa Bri...

For those who have recognized their portion of responsibility for the dissolution of their marriage, accepted and anticipate their Soon-to-be-Ex’s limitations and personality quirks while being cognizant of their own, and can flow with the disturbing surprises and often aggravating conversations ...