California is a Community Property State, which does not mean that the separate property of a bride and groom automatically becomes community property after the wedding. Nor does it mean that all property a spouse acquires during a marriage is community property. What it means, … [Read more...]
Love Yourself Fiercely During Divorce—Practice Self-Compassion
At the crossroads of marriage and divorce, we face some of our greatest fears: making a mistake or the “wrong” choice, being alone or unable to take care of ourselves or the people we love. It’s here, at this liminal threshold—when we’re neither in nor out—that we must meet … [Read more...]
Use The Power of Intention in Divorce
Each of us has a sense of the possibilities of a human life. If we haven’t taken those possibilities seriously and gone after them, why not start now? ~Rick Hanson PhD Every pivotal moment confronts us with a choice: separation and divorce are no different. How the … [Read more...]
Heal in the Solitude of Winter
In her book, Wintering,The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May writes beautifully: Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives they lived in the summer. They prepare. They … [Read more...]
Process Grief and loss of a spouse to divorce
Few experiences are more painful than the loss of a loved one, whether through death or divorce. Losing someone shakes us to the core, shatters our understandings of the world, and plunges us into grief. Grief is a natural response to loss. It can disorient, numb, enrage, … [Read more...]
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