Journey Beyond Divorce Podcast

As we began discussing in our last episode, communicating with a high conflict personality (HCP) is often frustrating and fruitless, and leaves us feeling angry, exhausted and unheard. Today's episode offers a unique and powerful approach to communicating with a narcissist that enables you to protect your interests without conflict or drama! This strategy neutralizes combative and emotionally char...

Welcome to our Healthy Romantic Relationship Series and today's episode: Entering New Relationships with a Positive Mindset and Self Compassion. As we dive into this topic, Dr. Jennifer Reid, who is a psychiatrist and award-winning educator with a practice in Philadelphia, shares the importance of realizing how we are wired and therefore how we communicate and react in relationships. Jennifer invi...

Today's powerful episode gives you the strategies and tools needed to communicate more effectively with your spouse's high conflict personality. You have been struggling with criticism, deflection, blaming and black and white thinking. You have doubted your own version of reality, lost your self esteem and tried time and again to reason with your spouse to no end. What you didn't know was that com...

When we are faced with divorce, we go through a grief process. The death of our marriage brings the loss of the hopes and dreams we had as a couple, the loss of our normal family life, friends, community, etc. Grief is the normal reaction to loss. And, no two people will grieve their losses in the same way. You'll learn that there is no "one size fits all" approach to grief recovery, and yet there...

Ann Margaret shares her struggles around faith and family when deciding whether or not to seek a divorce from her spouse of 19 years. As a devout Catholic, she needed to be 'right with God' and sought to understand if and how her desire to leave her marriage was aligned with her deep faith. She goes on to share her concerns for the impact the divorce would have on her children, the challenges of l...

You kids have been experiencing conflict throughout the marriage, even if you think you have 'hidden' it from them. Now that a decision has been made to divorce, tensions will only rise. It is all the more important to focus on protecting your children now while navigating a high conflict divorce. Deciding when, how and what to tell the kids about the divorce is just the beginning. Figuring out ho...

Today's episode is chuck full of valuable tips and guidance around the vitally important question of when to move from dating into a committed relationship…and when not to. Alaya is a Sex and Relationship coach who helps men and women get clear on who and what they want and how to use the dating experience to insure that they get it. Tune in to learn the questions to ask, the key conversations to...

Entering the legal process of any divorce feels frightening and overwhelming. For those entering high conflict divorce, the fear and confusion is escalated due to years of living in a dysfunctional marriage and the complexities involved when divorcing a high conflict personality. There is often a greater need to be in the court system due to the power imbalance in the relationship, the lack of tra...

Divorcing a spouse when there are "bigger" concerns at play - like mental health issues or addiction can add an additional layer of complexity to an already challenging situation. In this episode, Karen & Diane talk about the value of compassion in these difficult times, and how to balance concern and compassion with setting effective limits and boundaries. Ultimately this will support you in avoi...

Living with a narcissist is 'crazy making'. Understanding your role in the ongoing insanity is vital in order to create lasting change. In order to navigate your divorce effectively and strategically and emerge confident and renewed, it is essential that you keep your focus on that which you have power over...your thoughts, feelings and behavior. Today's episode invites you into a 'coaching experi...

Today's expert acknowledges that online dating can seem intimidating and if you don't follow best practices, it can lead to disappointment. Alyssa Dineen, is the author of 'The Art of Online Dating: Style Your Most Authentic Self and Cultivate a Mindful Dating Life'. She became a dating coach after getting divorced with two children and navigating her own dating experiences. Alyssa got crystal cle...

If you have lost yourself amidst your marriage with a narcissist, today's show will reveal and explain much about the insanity you have been living with. It is vital to understand the traits of the pathological narcissist and your role as a codependent in order to emotionally heal and change behaviors that have kept you stuck in your unhealthy marriage. Our guest, psychotherapist Ross Rosenberg, c...

Does your soon to be ex-spouse appear cooperative, but your gut tells you otherwise? Do they seem outwardly calm and rational, but your interactions feel hostile and chaotic? If you answered yes to either or both of these questions, you are, in all likelihood, divorcing a passive-aggressive spouse. This dynamic may not appear to be high conflict, but it is. Being on the receiving end of passive-ag...

High conflict personalities drive high conflict divorces. If you have been married to and are divorcing this type of personality, today's show helps you to understand the traits common to this personality type. You will begin to understand your spouse's inability to manage his/her emotions, their black and white thinking, extreme behaviors and tendency to blame are common to his/her personality an...

Today we dive into the nuts and bolts of setting up your online dating profile. Our guest Elise is not a dating coach like so many of our other guests. Elise comes at online dating as a former journalist who is divorced and decided to use her journalism skills to investigate what works and what doesn't in terms of dating apps, platforms, profile images and bios. Along with having hosted dating exp...

Veronica was a child of a high conflict marriage who desperately wanted her parents to get divorced. However, once she received news that they were, she realized that she was thrown into a situation she didn't know how to navigate. Today, Veronica walks us through how her parent's divorce affected her on a deeper level than what parents see. The divorce left her with a sense of dread, anxiety, and...

Your Divorce Settlement has been negotiated and agreed upon. Now it is time to step off the divorce battlefield take off your 'coat of armor' and begin the task of coparenting post divorce. The good news is that much of the ongoing stress and tension around the negotiations quickly melts away which provides you with the opportunity to be fully present in attending to your children's needs. But old...

As we continue our post divorce series, today is all about you guys! As you enter your new life chapter, we will guide you on how to refresh and reinvent yourself through style and image. Today's guest will share tips on how to become your most authentic, magnetic and powerful self. Grab a pen and begin to explore how to hone in on the deeper blocks keeping you from attracting your dream woman! Fo...

Welcome back to another conversation about dating after divorce. Today I am joined by Bela Gandhi, a dating expert and founder of Smart Dating Academy. Bela chats with us about how fun, exciting and fulfilling the dating process can be…under the right circumstances. She shares the three key approaches to dating and yes, online dating remains the most accessible and successful approach. And if you...

Once your divorce is final, you are so relieved for it to finally be over, that it is easy to miss the crucial steps that can only be taken after your divorce is final. This vital step allows you to secure and protect what you received in the settlement and sets you up for financial stability post divorce. In today's show Aviva Pinto helps review everything from closing accounts shared with your e...

As we begin to explore dating, today's guest shares the vital importance of being authentic and what keeps us from doing so. Not surprising, there is a lot going on in our subconscious that can derail effort to enjoy dating and find healthy partners. Love Coach Junie Moon shares the 'shadow work' she does with clients. She helps unearth and tease apart unconscious limiting beliefs and breaks throu...

Cheryl was married for almost 3 decades when one day her husband handed her divorce papers, stripped her of all finances and left without explanation. She was so traumatized that she ended up in the hospital. That was two years ago. Today, Cheryl shares that she is the happiest she has ever been and the journey to get here was hard and took time and was the best investment in herself that she ever...

Imagine feeling homeless in your home. That is how so many divorcees feel after their ex spouse has moved out of the home. Today we are speaking to the ones who are left feeling disconnected with their home. Today's guest, Jodi Topitz, founder of We2Me guides us in transforming your home from married to single, and she shares fun, easy, and inexpensive ways to create spaces that make you feel good...

The conversation and decision around what to do with the marital home can be an emotional minefield. For many, your home is your largest financial investment and the foundation of stability in our lives, it is a hot trigger for most divorcing couples Today's guest, Divorce Real Estate Specialist, Kathy Braddock takes us through her process for assisting you in determining what RE professional to w...

Today we begin a new topic in the LIfe After Divorce Series. and I am thrilled to have Bernadette Smith with me to kick it off. …and I think you will want to take notes. Bernadette shares the 6 things we must let go of and the 6 things we must commit to to be successful in our dating endeavors. She also shares key questions to ask up front, how to feel comfortable and confident on every date and t...