By Lisa Brick For many of you who have found your way to Journey Beyond Divorce this divorce may not be your first. Your first experience with divorce may have been when your parents split up. The relationship you have with your spouse is also rarely the first contentious and painful relationship in your life, […]
by Karen Basmagy, Transition/Divorce Coach The Power of Metaphor As spring begins to blossom, many of us have been scrambling to get outside and clean up our yards, myself included. So this Sunday, I quit the seemingly never ending process of emptying boxes from my recent move and turned my attention to the long […]
By Karen McMahon I awoke this morning feeling deeply grateful for my life. I began my day brewing freshly ground coffee, making a pot of steel oats, encouraging my 17 year old daughter (who has senioritis) to get moving; and feeding my feline family (yes, I have 4 cats). I had a sense of peace […]
By Karen Basmagy My marriage, like so many others, had floundered for years. Alternating between trying to work on the relationship and then falling back into those comfortable dysfunctional places, I would become so discontent that in my struggle for a solution, I would read yet another self-help book to try to understand why I just […]
By Erica T, Journey Beyond Divorce Client “The first time I ever spoke to Karen, I had gone for a walk around the block to blow off some steam and calm my nerves. This was a regular occurrence for me, since I had a constant feeling in the pit of my stomach that was […]
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 not stand righteous […]
Guest Post By Susan Reach Winters, Esq. and Lindsey M. Housman, Esq.* Choosing a divorce attorney can be nerve-racking and stressful. Since selecting the right (or wrong) attorney to guide you through the divorce process can have a substantial effect on the rest of your life, it is a decision that should not be taken […]
Guest Post By Amanda S. Trigg, Esq. Divorce presents one of the most stressful situations that we endure and some attorneys will promise to make it easy. The truth is that even the best attorney has limited ability to do that. You, on the other hand, have the power to significantly improve your opportunities for […]
By Lisa Brick There are many times that, like you, our clients call in a total panic. Emotional sparks are flying everywhere, like the end of an electrical wire that has been severed by a tree limb crashing down and snapping it in a storm. There is nothing getting past the break. All of […]
By Karen McMahon This article is not about religious beliefs, it is about a spiritual light in the darkness of the unknown. It is about the practice of Faith and Surrender. “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have […]
