by Alisa | January 18, 2021 | Co-Parenting Blog
Co-parents commonly say that communication is the biggest problem they encounter with their ex. Often they feel powerless to change it. Is it reasonable to think communication between highly conflicted co-parents can improve? Yes, co-parents can and do improve their...
by Alisa | February 18, 2020 | Co-Parenting Blog
“My co-parent badmouths me to my children!” Knowing that your co-parent is badmouthing you is terrible! It is deeply distressing, anger provoking and just plain scary to feel like your co-parent is trying to turn your children against you. Co-parents can...
by Alisa | November 29, 2019 | Co-Parenting Blog
One of the most difficult realities of divorced co-parenting is dividing up holidays. Being away from children on a holiday can feel intensely empty and debilitatingly sad. Many of us have divorced families in our extended families. I write this for co-parents, but...
by Alisa | May 13, 2019 | Co-Parenting Blog
It is very common for co-parents to feel disrespected by their co-parents. Co-parents complain that their co-parents think they’re too strict, too lenient, too cheap, too extravagant, too nurturing or not nurturing enough. Their co-parents don’t like who they date...
by Alisa | May 4, 2019 | Co-Parenting Blog
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by Alisa | March 3, 2019 | Co-Parenting Blog
Mindfulness is an amazing tool that can be extraordinarily helpful in co-parenting. Here are just a couple of the many ways that mindfulness helps in co-parenting. Mindfulness helps co-parents stay in control of emotions that unchecked can cause a lot of trouble! When...
by Alisa | January 27, 2019 | Co-Parenting Blog
Why did you and Daddy get divorced? Why don’t you love Mommy anymore? Daddy said it was your fault that you got divorced. What did you do? My friend said that Mommy had an affair. Is that true? Co-parents can get baffled about how to answer these kinds of questions....
by Alisa | December 11, 2018 | Co-Parenting Blog
Co-parents often fight over what is in the children’s best interest. People throw around the phrase “in the best interest of the child” as if it an absolute, concrete, set in stone thing. It usually isn’t. Co-parents think that their idea of what is in the best...
by Alisa | October 11, 2018 | Co-Parenting Blog
Excerpt from “An Unexpected Journey: The Road to Power and Wisdom in Divorced Co-Parenting”Imagine that you have a given amount of energy to expend in a day–let’s say 1000 units of energy. Knowing that you have a finite amount, you would want to make...
by Alisa | April 18, 2018 | Co-Parenting Blog
You started out with good intentions. You partnered with someone. You decided to walk the path of parenthood, and you intended for it all to be good and right. And then things fell apart. You didn’t know how to fix it or you recognized that it wasn’t fixable. And then...