Thoughts
2021
Dec 30, 2021
Pondering my brilliant solution to fully forgive your ex before The 2022 Ball drops (sarcasm), I was launched back to a square, miniature hotel “Fitness Center” I inhabited. It was a time in my life I knew I had to … Read More
Dec 15, 2021
Upon discovering a spouse’s affair, people describe literally feeling their heart pounding, breaking, the need to hold onto it. As if clenching it desperately with 2 hands will stop the excruciating pain. Spouses who caused that forever change in their … Read More
Dec 08, 2021
If you’re really doing the work with divorce healing, Holidays can be brutal with memories popping up, while others seem to just be joyfully popping champagne. If you were/are being gaslit, your head & heart may be racing faster than … Read More
Dec 07, 2021
Whether as psychologically damaging as parental alienation, igniting the “Who got you better Hanukkah presents?” competition , informing an innocent child your fresh lover or stepparent will be replacing their former Mr. or Mrs. Clause, inflexibility with letting your kids … Read More
Nov 30, 2021
Michael Routh Esq., an Attorney0Mediator at Alpha Center for Divorce Mediation, and Amy Siock LSW, Executive Director of Alpha Resource Center, join together to discuss the struggles of addiction recovery and the effects on a relationship. Read More
Nov 17, 2021
As we hear joyful co-workers planning their “Home for the Holidays” debut next Thursday, it is easy to dive into the hole of despair. Just some of the “reality” from brave callers this week: an almost ex taking off for … Read More
Nov 10, 2021
It can be grief defined in the anguish of missing childhood or now divorced Holiday traditions. It can be Charlie Brown’s “GOOD GRIEF!”, that overwhelming “I can’t take all this extra irritation of facing unresolved family conflict & endless to … Read More
Nov 03, 2021
Hope. To many that live through heartbreaking divorce, that sunny word can understandably equate to a novel lover! Ready or not, the calendar turned to November, & it’s normal to fantasize if a soulmate can be your missing piece in … Read More
Oct 27, 2021
“Take it slow, & it’ll work itself out fine…All we need is just a little Patience.” -Guns N’ Roses “Patient”. Yuck! Seriously? After the painstaking ups & downs & brutal back flips of divorce? I get your intense feeling … Read More
Oct 18, 2021
Quote: “Meditation helps to change your perspective. It improves the way you perceive things. It improves your interaction with people around you-what you say, how you react & act in different situations…” -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Amy Reflection: Navigating through … Read More