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...

How do you reconcile the differences between divorce and faith?

While navigating the Holy Land with Rabbis, Ministers and Imams the conversation turned to divorce and faith. The four who spoke (both men and women), recalled their reasons for divorce and the day they decided to take the first steps ...

By Karen McMahon

I recently spoke about forgiveness at a retreat and even those that understood the value of forgiveness and deeply desired to, struggled with how to forgive.

What is forgiveness?

• Forgiveness is NOT for the other person.
  • It is not something we do for the other.  
  • We do
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By Jackie, A JBD Client

Sadly, I knew very early on that my marriage was in trouble.  There were small, short lived breakthroughs in our time together but I frequently had a feeling more was amiss; what...I did not know. Counseling was not bearing fruit. My fun loving always gregarious, thoughtfu...

By Karen McMahon

Do you feel stuck in the past? Do you find that you are having trouble starting over?  What if the very thing that was keeping you stuck had to do with you and your unwillingness to forgive yourself for being…human?

On of my coaching groups was talking about starting over after ...

By Karen McMahon

Accepting how people show up in our relationships

One of the most liberating action steps that we can take in ALL our relationships is to accept others as they are.  It is the first step to living in peace with our ex, teenagers, mother, etc.

EVEN if that person is hurtful, ...