Life After Divorce- Part II…How to Rediscover Your True Passion
September 2, 2010
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Going through a divorce is a very challenging time in a person’s life. It is hard to adjust to being single again, as well as living “out of the habit” of being married, especially if you have been married for many, many years.
Eventually, you begin to think about dating, but it is suggested that you take your time. Use this precious opportunity to rediscover yourself. Think of this time in your life as an adventure to explore the real you. If you have worked outside the home combined with being a mom and wife for the last ten, fifteen or twenty years, you may have lost yourself along the way. Certainly not on purpose, but as most women try to do it all as “super” moms, many times we put our own wants and needs on hold to keep our families and jobs running smoothly!
Let’s rediscover your true passions. Take a deep breath and say…will the real me please stand up!
Part II
Give Yourself A Break
During and after a divorce it is common to have the feeling of grieving, similar to that of the loss of someone. Many women feel the need to stay busy to keep their minds off of this stressful time, such as working overtime or cleaning the house from top to bottom, but let this time also include pampering yourself. Barter with a friend or neighbor to watch your children or leave work a few minutes early so you can stop to sit on a park bench long enough to get that sense of the unique and special YOU. Take this time to experience life even for only 10 minutes without feeling like a wife, mother, sister or daughter… simply you!
Yes, you do deserve to do something special for yourself. It can be as simple as taking a bath or a walk, going to the mall or reading a book with your favorite cup of tea. Give yourself permission - it’s O.K. Remember, the happier you are, the happier your family will be!
Yes! There is life after divorce!
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A Child’s Perspective on Surviving their Parent’s Divorce
July 9, 2009
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A Child’s Perspective on Surviving their Parent’s Divorce
By Rosalind Sedacca, CCT
Max Sindell is a young man in his early twenties who has written a book for children titled, The Bright Side: Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce.
Sindell was six when his parents divorced. Over the next many years he experienced a wide array of significant divorce issues that affect so many families. These include coping with his parents’ arguments with and about one another, adjusting to travel between homes, remarriage, stepsiblings and juggling holidays and other special events. He wrote the book to help children identify their “voice” about all these issues. He also wants to show children ways to find the good that can come through and from divorce.
“The book is really supposed to be a quick handbook for making the most out of divorce and making it so that it’s the least of your problems,” Sindell says.
Sindell uses his own life lessons to walk children through the “downsides” of divorce, and focuses on ways to best handle them. In his chapter titled, “The Good News and the Bed News,” he says “I’d honestly say that my parents’ divorce is one of the best things to ever happen to me in my entire life: That’s the good news.” “On the other hand, divorce can make you wake up one morning realizing how much everything sucks,” he also adds.
Other topics he discusses include: “You Are Never Going to Have One Home Again” and “Your Parents Are Going to Fight.” But within each discussion he also provides positive observations, such as learning how to travel at a young age and developing more independence.
Within the book Sindell also offers his personal bill of rights for divorced children. These are worth discussing with your children. It reminds them that they are not alone in what they are going through. And is empowers them to learn that they deserve and are entitled to “rights” as they move through and beyond the divorce. Let me share the first five with you, which Sindell says children should actually require to be part of their parents’ divorce agreement.
THE DIVORCED KIDS’ BILL OF RIGHTS
(Excerpt from The Bright Side: Surviving Your Parents’ Divorce)
I. The Right to Be Safe and Feel Safe – A child should feel safe and secure. If there ever is a time you don’t feel safe, tell your parents, and if you can’t tell them, tell a counselor or tell a friend. This is your most important right.
II. The Right to Awareness – Every child has a right to know what is going on. Your parents should not lie to you or hide the truth from you about anything to do with you. While some things should remain private between your parents until you are older, if they’re having a discussion about your schedule, you have the right to know and to make your voice heard.
III. The Right to Counseling – Divorce can make you feel like you don’t have a say and don’t make a difference, and that’s exactly where a counselor comes in. A counselor should be someone whom you can talk to privately, without your parents there, and who can help you with your situation.
School counselors are not the only people you can talk to. Adult friends of the family who are unbiased, or the parents of good friends of yours, are also good people to talk to.
IV. The Right to Be Heard – Sometimes, when your parents are trying to sort out what they think is best for you, they can forget to listen to the most important person: You! If you can’t get them to listen to you by yourself, it’s important to have someone — a counselor or a friend — talk for you.
V. The Right to Be Your Own Person – Before your parents were divorced, there was you, your mom, your dad, and the other people in your family. The same is true now. Your parents have to respect your right to feel the way you feel. In dealing with stepparents, or the people your parents are dating, your rights stand. You must tell both your parents and their friends when any boundaries are crossed. If those boundaries are crossed in a major way, and you don’t feel safe, tell a counselor.
Put yourself in your child’s shoes and give these Rights some serious consideration before making any further decisions affecting your children. Talk to your children about what this means. It might open the door to some very meaningful conversations about topics you’ve never before discussed. Empowered children are happier children — less resentful and less likely to act out to get your attention. Isn’t that what you really want?
Meet Rosalind Sedacca
Rosalind is on the Panel of Experts for the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children and a contributor for “The Single Again! Now What?” blog.
The Wisdom of Books
April 16, 2009
ALIVE AND OH WELL!
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This blog is a combo-talk show/counseling session in words with intriguing dialogue. We will help guide you through crucial transitions in your life—not just surviving divorce with grace, humor and feminine integrity, but anything that has left you feeling stuck, under-inspired or overwhelmed.
I’ve always been an avid reader. For me, there are few things more relaxing than curling up with a good book, a steamy mug of hazelnut coffee and my Jack Russell puppy by my side. As a writer and author, books aren’t just my profession, they have also been, at times, a form of solace for me–during the past 16 months of my marital separation has been no exception. Here are a handful of helpful reads that may help you, as well:
Healing and Recovery, Dr. David Hawkins
The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart, Constance Ahrons
Keeping the Faith: Guidance for Christian Women Facing Abuse, Marie Fortune
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft
Healing the Heart: Overcoming Betrayal in Your Life, Joan Hunter
At times when I was down, I’d read inspirational works from my favorite poets. Here’s one I’d like to share with you:
The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz, Hafiz and David Ladinsky
All the best, Gina
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Heart of the Matter: Love Lives On
February 15, 2009
Alive and Oh Well!
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Heart of the Matter: Love Lives On
A year ago today, on Valentine’s Day, I watched my father-in-law take his last breaths in a hospital bed. A blurred and surreal six weeks earlier, I’d found the courage to confront my husband about his having an affair.
It’s amazing what us women choose to endure sometimes. Less than 48 hours after telling him I knew about his double life, I was on the phone consoling him as he drove to his childhood home in another state to tell his parents that we were going to separate. He was an emotional wreck when he called me that day—crying and fearful about this family visit because he’d decided to couple the news of our separation with confronting his parents about his upbringing. I encouraged him to do what he felt he needed to do—even said I was proud of him for wanting to finally face and heal deep-seated issues.
Looking for something to blame —or perhaps aiming correctly at the root of the wayward path he’d been on—he told his parents that day that how they treated him as a child “resulted in his inability to be emotionally available” during our marriage–thus leading to its demise. I doubt he even mentioned the other woman. Well, blaming his parents for choices he’d made as an adult went over like a lead balloon. They were deeply hurt and shortly thereafter, my father-in-law suffered a severe heart attack.
Carl laid in a coma for three weeks. On Valentine’s Day, I awoke with an intuition that I had to drive my kids to see their grandfather. We arrived mid-morning and around 2 p.m., Carl passed surrounded by his family. I put the heartache of my marriage aside to hold my spouse’s hand in the hospital room, only to be told by him on the drive home from the funeral: “Get over the affair, okay? Just get over it.”
What a difference a year makes. The breakup of my 20-year marriage is still playing out but I’ve turned a significant corner. No man will ever be allowed to “tell” me how I should feel. And I vow to expand my capacity to love, not contract and shrivel because my heart was broken. In fact, I’m cooking dinner tonight for a guy friend as a thank-you for his emotionally supporting me this past year through my tribulations. I can glimpse a future in which I’m willing to love again, or at least appreciate male companionship.
So tonight I will have a wine toast in honor of Carl, who was a terrific father-in-law and grandpa . . . and in honor of love, which lives on as long as the heart is open. How about you? Are you willing to love again?
Best, Gina
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Introducing: “Alive and Oh Well!”
February 13, 2009
As founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children, I am honored to introduce Gina Mazza, an inspirational author as co-author for the new…
Alive and Well!
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Note from Gina:
Around age 35, I found myself introspecting on a series of deep questions: what is it that I’m here to do? What must do before I die or else I will die unfulfilled? In other words, what is nonnegotiable in my life? Around this same time, I couldn’t help but notice that I’d become stretched thin, as many women do. I was a new mother of two children, working full time with a company that I owned with my husband at the time, caretaking aging parents and doing my best to impersonate Martha Stewart at home, among other things.
I’d built a beautiful life yet part of me yearned to rediscover an essential part of me—particularly my creative spirit, which I had allowed to become squelched and devalued. (No wonder I felt something was missing, because my dream was to pursue a career as a writer.) Said another way, I wanted to feel free to be more myself. I wasn’t interested in drastically changing my life, I just wanted to awaken more fully into it. So I embarked on an inward journey that eventually took on fantastic, mystical proportions.
Jump ahead about a dozen years to 2008. I’ve documented my journey in a book that was released nationwide in April 2008: Everything Matters, Nothing Matters: For Women Who Dare to Live with Exquisite Calm, Euphoric Creativity and Divine Clarity. On its pages, I reveal what I’ve discovered to be the 7 essential, overarching concepts to consider when one finally decides to take that leap of faith into the great unknown.
The book is my offering to others on a similar quest, and I suggest that working with these 7 concepts will allow you to create a gift for yourself beyond price: You will know who you are, with the freedom to be it; You will know what you want, with the daring to go for it.
But now I’d like to share with you is what’s been happening SINCE the book was published, which has led me to join Joanie on this blog. Pretty interesting! Suffice to say that it’s like God-Goddess has upped the ante on me, as if to say, “Okay, Gina, you’re saying that nothing matters . . . prove it!” Here’s a snapshot of my past 18 months.
Ready? . . . (deep breath!) . . . Okay, here goes: infidelity (on my spouse’s part); his subsequent job loss due to misconduct; marital separation after 20 years; helping my 2 teens deal with the ramifications of this; several deaths (my father-in-law, and my daughter’s friend commits suicide at age 15); book launch, in which I pull myself together to embark on a national tour; worries about my kids while on tour due to their ongoing estranged-dad situation; financial crisis due to spouse seizing control of our assets (while I was away on tour); legal proceedings for custody; worries about my dear mom, 87, who lives alone and is devastated by my current situation; spouse informs me he’s dating (woman #2, I guess); ramping up my work life to better support myself and my kids; sibling challenges due to spouse’s attempts to turn my family against me; mounting legal fees, and on.
So, yes, these are some of the recent tests that have come my way, and it’s up to me to truly live my philosophy—which is, “it’s not what happens to us in life, it’s our response to it and more importantly, who we are going through it.” I recently read this quote: “Know that the most neurotic, ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing your vastness, flexibility, adjustment and character.”
No doubt about it, we are all being tested to a greater or lesser degree. That is why Joanie and I are writing this blog, to be in conversation with other women about life transitions we are all going through—especially the painful ones!—so we can learn and grow from those these experiences as they are happening to us.
So while my book has been published, my story is continues day by day, moment by moment, and I promise to share my innermost thoughts about what I’m going through as a launching point for your own words, which we hope you will offer back to us on this blog.
Join us and let the healing begin!
Gina and Joanie
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A Lesson in Love
February 3, 2009
Today’s Happy Wednesday Broadcast is brought to you by Michael Jordan Segal.
Michael, who defied all odds after being shot in the head, is a husband, father, social worker, author, and inspirational speaker. His “miraculous” comeback story was first published in Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul. He has a CD of 12 of his inspirational short stories, entitled POSSIBLE, available on his web site. For more information, go to www.InspirationByMike.com.
“A Lesson in Love”
By Michael Jordan Segal, MSW
Audio- “A Lesson in Love”
“I never liked rings. I do not wear a high school ring; I do not wear a college ring; and I did not want to wear a wedding ring. This was not because I did not want people to know that I was married, but because I just did not feel comfortable with a ring on my finger.
After graduating from college I finally was about to “pop the question” to my high school sweetheart, Sharon Gail Weingarton, who continually was at my side when I was almost fatally injured during a robbery.
Sharon was the best — pretty, kind, sweet, and good-hearted. However, what would she say when I proposed and said that I did not want to wear a wedding ring? I practiced what I was going to say to her. I thought long and hard. I finally decided that there was no answer to my dilemma. I would simply tell her, and then wait five minutes listening to her explode.
So that night I proposed, and afterwards I told Sharon that I was not going to wear a ring. I simply said: “I just don’t like rings. I don’t wear a high school ring…” I expected Sharon to become enraged: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT GOING TO WEAR A WEDDING RING?”
However, instead, I merely heard silence. After what in my mind seemed like an eternity, Sharon calmly remarked: “Fine. If you don’t want to wear a wedding ring, I won’t change my name. I will not call myself Sharon Segal.”
On our Fifteenth Anniversary, I remembered my first lesson of marriage that was taught to me by my wife Sharon Gail Segal as I looked down upon the ring on my ring finger — COMPROMISE.”
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Special Message from Joanie Winberg, The Happy Wednesday Lady:
Would you like to be “highlighted” on the Happy Wednesday Broadcast?
Just e-mail your inspirational video, audio or poem with tips to jw@joanwinberg.com with the words Happy Wednesday Broadcast in the subject line. Once accepted we will also include a short introduction about you and a link to your website.
My dream is for everyone to become aware of how they can make a difference for just a few minutes every Wednesday by choosing one or more of the following:
- Do an act of kindness.
- Forgive someone- make amends with a relationship gone sour.
- Call someone and tell them how much you care.
- Do something special for yourself or the earth.
- Have FUN and laugh more often.
Until next week, have a Happy Wednesday!
To learn more about powerful tools to help eliminate harmful stress and bring more joy and happiness into your life, go to www.HappyWednesday.com.
Joanie Winberg is the Founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children. We understand the challenges of divorce. You are not alone. For more information, go to www.FreshStartAfterDivorce.com.
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Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Divorce
February 2, 2009
Are you thinking about getting a divorce?
Do you know what you should do before even calling an attorney?
Tune in to the Single! Again Now? Blog Talk Radio Show with your host Joanie Winberg and her special guest, Attorney Mark Greene and be informed!
Here are three of the Top 10 most frequently asked questions regarding divorce that Attorney Greene will answer.
1. How much is a divorce going to cost me?
The answer to this question depends completely upon the level of conflict between yourself and your spouse. Our firm charges by the hour at $200.00 to $275.00 per hour, and the more of a lawyer’s time you use, the more the divorce will cost. In the circumstance where the parties have already agreed on the major issues of child custody, child support, alimony and property division, and a lawyer is needed mainly to draft the separation agreement, your total bill will likely be approximately $2000. The vast majority of divorce cases in our experience settle short of a trial, and will cost a party from $5000 to $7500 in attorney fees.
Cases which are highly contested and hotly litigated, cases which involve substantial and complex assets and any case which goes to trial are all likely to result in attorney fees to each party of over $15,000. Please keep in mind that no attorney can guarantee what the legal fees in a given case will be.
2) Can I get a divorce if my spouse doesn’t want it?
The short answer is yes. Although an uncooperative spouse can make the divorce process longer and more expensive for you, he or she cannot prevent a divorce.
3) What should I look for in choosing a divorce lawyer?
First, you want your attorney to be experienced in the specialized field of divorce law. It is also helpful if your attorney has practiced extensively in the Court where your case will be heard because it is important to be familiar with the particular judges who may be involved with your case. Second, you should feel comfortable working with your attorney, he or she should be responsive to your questions and concerns and your attorney should always return your phone calls promptly. Lastly, you should choose an attorney who is skilled at negotiating a settlement, but also has the ability to aggressively litigate if that is necessary to protect your rights. In addition we at MG&A recognize our limitations as attorneys while working in the area of divorce, therefore we have on staff a highly trained family counselor Katy Hamilton LMHC to help our clients deal with the emotional side of divorce. We know of no other law firm that provides such a service.
Joanie Winberg is the Founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children. We understand the challenges of divorce. You are not alone. For more information, go to www.FreshStartAfterDivorce.com.
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Getting Rid of Our Emotional Baggage
February 2, 2009
As founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children, our goal is to provide you with a Panel of Experts to support and encourage you during and after divorce.
Today, I am excited to introduce Patrick Wanis, Ph.D., a Celebrity Life-Coach. The Daily Buzz” anointed him “The Woman Expert” and FOX News pronounced him “A voice for women.”
Enjoy,
Joanie Winberg
Getting Rid of Our Emotional Baggage
1. Why is it so hard for us to get over our past romantic hurts?
A truly romantic connection & relationship affects, impacts and absorbs us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. The more we attach to the other person, the harder it is for us to get over them: i.e. if our identity, self-worth and future were tied to this person, then it becomes even more difficult to get over him or her.”
2. What’s the first step to getting over them? Why?
The first step to getting over him or her is to separate your emotional issues from his/hers. In other words, accept responsibility for your actions but don’t accept responsibility or blame yourself for the way he/she chose to respond to you. You are not to blame if your partner cheated on you, became an alcoholic or a gambler. Each one of use makes the individual choice about how we will treat the other person and ourselves. Until such time as when we accept that they did what they did because of who they are and we did what we did because of who we are, then we will continue to chase them, trying to prove ourselves to them, to get their approval, forgiveness and acceptance.
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PEACE WITHIN- How to Acheive that Feeling
January 25, 2009
A special message from Joanie Winberg
Founder/Executive Director of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children
When conducting Stress Management workshops, one of the questions I ask the audience…
“How many of you would like to live a life with more ease, less stress and enjoy that feeling of peace within?” Everyone raises their hand.
HOW DO YOU ACHIEVE THAT FEELING OF PEACE WITHIN?
Below is an easy exercise from Eckhart Tolle that will help you achieve what he calls your “inner space.”
“Choose an object close to you- a pen, a chair, a cup, a plant- and explore it visually, that is to say, look at it with great interest, almost curiosity. Avoid any objects with strong personal associations that remind you of the past, such as where you bought it, who gave it to you, and so on. Also avoid anything that has writing on it such as a book or a bottle. It would stimulate thought.
Without straining, relaxed but alert, give your complete attention to the object, every detail of it. If thoughts arise, don’t get involved in them. It is not the thoughts you are interested in, but the act of perception itself.
- Can you take the thinking out of the perceiving?
- Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
After a couple of minutes or so, let your gaze wander around the room or wherever you are, your alert attention lighting up each thing that it rests upon.
Then, listen to any sounds that may be present. Listen to them in the same way as you looked at the things around you. Some sounds may be natural- water, wind, birds- while others are man-made. Some may be pleasant, others unpleasant. However, don’t differentiate between good and bad. Allow each sound to be as it is, without interpretation. Here too, relaxed but alert attention is the key.
When you look and listen in this way, you may become aware of a subtle and at first perhaps hardly noticeable sense of calm. Some people feel it as a stillness in the background. Others call it peace.
When consciousness is no longer totally absorbed by thinking, some of it remains in its formless, unconditioned, original state. That is inner space.”
Joanie Winberg is the Founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children. We understand the challenges of divorce. You are not alone. For more information, go to www.FreshStartAfterDivorce.com.
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After Divorce- 7 Ways to Rediscover Your True Passion Tip #6
January 25, 2009
~ Joanie Winberg
Founder/Executive Director of The National Association of Divorce for Women and Children
Going through a divorce is a very challenging time in a person’s life. It is hard to adjust to being single again, as well as living “out of the habit” of being married, especially if you have been married for many, many years.
It is suggested that you use this precious opportunity to rediscover yourself. Think of this time in your life as an adventure to explore the real you. If you have worked outside the home combined with being a mom and wife for the last ten, fifteen or twenty years, you may have lost yourself along the way. Certainly not on purpose, but as most women try to do it all as “super” moms, many times we put our own wants and needs on hold to keep our families and jobs running smoothly!
Take a deep breath and let’s start to rediscover your true passions and say…
Will the Real Me Please Stand Up!
Tip #6 Law of Attraction- What Are You Attracting into Your Life?
Are you familiar with the Law of Attraction? Maybe you have heard the expressions, “What you think about, you bring about” or “The more attention you give to something, the more attention it will give to you.”
When going through a divorce, your emotions can be compared to a roller coaster ride. It is important to realize how your thoughts affect your life.
A very powerful formula to remember that will help you create the life you desire … your thoughts =your emotions= your behavior.
Be aware of your…
1) Behavior- how you reacted to a situation.
2) Emotions or feelings that caused your behavior.
3) Thoughts that fueled your emotions.
Joanie Winberg is the Founder of the National Association of Divorce for Women and Children. We understand the challenges of divorce. You are not alone. For more information, go to www.FreshStartAfterDivorce.com.
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