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Health

Top Truths About coParent Care of the Self

When you are in the midst of the turmoil and stress that often surrounds divorce, taking the time to focus on keeping mentally and physically strong is vital.
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Short Summary – Emotions Are Contagious

Emotions are contagious, whether they arrive by means of an ex, coParent, employer or friend. Here are some ways to stay grounded and clear.
(1 minute 16 seconds read time)

Boredom, ADHD and Autistic Disorders

(ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) pose special challenges that can affect every aspect of a child’s life, parenting, and the family’s well-being.
(57 seconds read time)

How to Survive Emotional Contagion

These are great top tips about how our emotions can transfer to our children. The following is advice for coParents; family and friends and professionals. Parents: Remember that emotions are contagious. Make your best efforts not to expose your child to your intense anger, fear, hurt, sadness and other negative emotions about the other parent […]

coParents’ Important Care of the Body

One of the biggest slips for people in general but even more so for stressed out, short on time coParents, is the lack of attention to their physical self. Does this sound like any of us, regarding nutrition? “I’ll just grab a burger at the drive-through.” “I totally forgot to eat today.” “The thought of […]

The coParent’s Care of the Mind

Following a separation or divorce, your mind is probably buzzing. All. The. Time. It’s making and reviewing your to-do list. It’s telling you stories about everything you experience (some true, some utter crap). It’s ruminating about the past. It’s worrying about the future. It’s labeling all that happens to you as Good, Bad, Happy, Sad. […]

Divorce Isn’t Fun – You Need to Take Care of Yourself

You’ve come this far, why not venture just a little bit farther? Divorce is not fun; I think we know that! There are so many details to attend to, other people to think about, and just general daily grind kind of stuff that needs to be handled. It may become tempting to overlook self-care. In […]

Sadness Following Divorce – Transferable to Your Child

All feelings can be contagious. I have had cases with one parent who is overwhelmingly distressed by sadness about the divorce – even a year after the parents have separated. Sometimes the sad parent is the mother and sometimes the father. They aren’t openly angry. They’re tearful – constantly tearful. When I see this, I […]

Decreasing Your Own Anxiety – For Your Child’s Sake

Feelings are contagious and this includes anxiety passed from the coParent to the child. It is important for parents to learn to calm their own emotions, for the sake of the child. If a child is too anxious, they may not wish to attend school. Recent research on “school refusal” shows that it is a […]

Meeting Emotional Needs – For Your Child and Yourself

Why don’t parents meet their children’s emotional needs? First of all, even the most well-intentioned parents often fail to meet their children’s emotional needs, and, in most cases, emotional wounds have nothing to do with parental love. Oftentimes, childhood emotional wounds are by-products of parenting style or our parent’s unhealed wounds or family issues, such as […]

How to Handle Regret After Divorce

Emotions can lead us to do strange things, particularly when circumstances seem especially dire. It may feel as if your actions are beyond your control at these times, and in some ways they are. Most people have heard of the fight, flight, or freeze response. This reaction is biologically triggered in both animals and humans […]

How to Heal Yourself Emotionally

Why do we need to be warned of false beliefs? All disempowering beliefs, such as unworthiness, powerlessness, and victimhood, put us into survival mode, and over time can cause chronic and acute issues with serious repercussions. Therefore, we need a warning system that alerts us to debilitating beliefs. This warning system is emotion, and, in […]

Healthy Meal Time Tips for Your Child

It is always best that we view “feeding” as a “line of development,” as the scholar Anna Freud described.  Anna Freud’s line went from feeding to rational eating as a specific developmental progression. How do we learn rational, intuitive eating unless our children are able to explore foods and help themselves?  The more a young […]

Six Steps to Accepting Your Divorce

There’s no “right way” or a “wrong way” to grieve and adjust to divorce/ separation, but we can tell you it’s a process that involves layers of emotion.
(3 minutes 19 seconds read)

Why You Should Forgive Your Parents

On the surface, forgiving your parents (or anyone for that matter) may seem insignificant, but forgiving your mother or father is actually the best thing you can do for the quality of your life. Even low-grade parental blame and resentment perpetuate a cycle of emotional pain and suffering that can negatively affect your adult relationships, […]