Posts Tagged ‘families’
5 Things You Need to Know About Healing From A Divorce You Didn’t Want
The bomb just dropped. Those devastating words you thought you would never hear just blew up your dreams for the future: “I want a divorce.” Or maybe you saw it coming, yet it was still a shock. Sure, you knew your marriage had problems (or maybe you didn’t; maybe you thought everything was great), but…
Read MoreHow To Get Over Divorce Depression And Start Moving On With Your Life
Divorce is a harrowing and stressful event under any circumstance, and more so if it wasn’t what you wanted. Getting through the legal battles, negotiation, compromise, financial and emotional devastation, and life disruption is difficult enough. It’s a long-term transition. You may feel like you’ve been forced to leave a cozy, safe nest, and thrown…
Read More5 Reasons You Need Creativity In Your Life
(Even if you’re a research scientist…) We tend to see creativity as the ability to produce art, music, literature, and wonderful masterpieces of beauty and design. Or we think of our aunt or grandmother who could crochet an afghan, sew their own wedding dress, or perform with the community ballet. Yet it’s much more. It’s…
Read MoreHow Effective Communication Skills Strengthen Your Personality And Self-Esteem
Think of all the things you do well. Are you a cook, an athlete, a math whiz, an author or speaker, a person who can repair anything, an architect or interior designer, a gardener? Why do you identify as that kind of person? Confidence? Now think about how you feel when you’re engaged in those…
Read More5 Creative Solutions For The Most Common Divorced Working Mom Issues
Some of my blogs have investigated the special challenges working divorced women face. Here are 5 creative solutions for the most common divorced working mom issues. While the harrowing experience of divorce is tough on all parties involved, women face special challenges. Most divorced working moms must juggle financial constraints, parenting and childcare, relationships, and…
Read More7 Reasons Why Working Moms Have It Harder When They’re Also Divorced
Being a mom is a full-time, often thankless job. Being a working mom takes motherhood to another level. And there are reasons why working moms have it harder when they’re also divorced…reasons that earn them extra kudos and maybe even a superhero cape. According to Statista, children of divorced parents in the US overwhelmingly live…
Read MoreNew Parents: How To Tell If You Have Postpartum Depression
(and how to handle it if you do…) You just brought a new little life into the world. The perfect combination of traits from you and your partner resulted in a precious tiny human, a bundle of joy. Yet you don’t feel the joy you were expecting just a few days ago before you delivered.…
Read More“This Dead End Job Is Ruining My Life!” Here’s What You Need To Do….
It’s one thing to take an entry level job for the experience and money. It’s another to still be there 10 years later. Maybe you even got a promotion to middle management, but you can tell that’s as far as your boss and her boss see you going. You’ve tried working long hours and taking…
Read More5 Heartbreaking Struggles Of A Single Divorced Working Mom
A single divorced working mom definitely faces struggles single working women without children don’t have. The break up alone was heartbreaking, but taking up the slack of even the laziest husband in terms of keeping the household running and the bills paid ads another dimension to the word “divorce.” Single divorced working moms are my…
Read MoreDo You Have Effective Communication Skills? Take This Quiz To Find Out!
Do you have effective communication skills? No one is perfect when it comes to communication, but just about everyone can do better and become more effective. It’s something we should strive toward because we communicate for better or worse every single day. Take this short quiz to identify your communication strengths and weaknesses. When communicating…
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