Sleep is an oft overlooked practice if you are to stay clear, focused, and effective while navigating divorce.  Rather than it being a retreat from responsibility, sleep is a necessity in order to be responsible and responsive during and post divorce.  While unusual amounts of time spent in sleep ca...

By Lisa Brick

YOU are the kingpin of your life, the main axle, the engine, the foundation…not a significant other, not your kids, not your parents, not your relatives, and not your friends. YOU are the most important person in your life and therefore the primary person to maintain yourself well.  T...

Guest Post by Mitchell Cohen

What happens if you are getting a military divorce?

Most of those in the know agree that military marriages are burdened by stresses and strains beyond those of an ordinary marriage. It is understandable, then, that military divorces present extraordinary challenges. I...

By Lisa Brick

Honestly, it’s challenging to think now. I don’t know what will happen to my family, friends, and community despite our precautions, how long I can last without an income, or what a recovery will even look like when the dust of this global pandemic settles. Since my children are adult...

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...