How To Help Divorced Co-Parents with Grief this Holiday Season
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...
“My Co-Parent Doesn’t Respect Me!” Should You Care?
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...
Video: How Co-Parents Lose Power, and How to Get it Back!
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Why Do Co-Parents Need Mindfulness?
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...
Seven Guidelines for Answering Children’s Questions about Divorce
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....
The Irony of Fighting Over “Children’s Best Interests”
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...
Co-Parents! Gain Power By Letting Go!
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...
Difficult Co-parent? Be A Hero!
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...
Co-Parenting, Emotions and the Brain
Co-parenting, especially when there is conflict, is very emotional. Often, if not always, co-parents try to resolve issues when they’re in emotionally reactive states, and that is almost always a set-up for disaster. WATCH THE VIDEO! You see, when we are in...Life-Changing Co-Parenting Book
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I am Alisa Jaffe Holleron, the creator/author of An Unexpected Journey book, classes and professional workshops. I hope you will explore my material, purchase a book, come to a class, or if you are a professional, come to a workshop, and learn about the work that I am proud to say has helped many many divorced co-parents find power and wisdom in very difficult circumstances. I look forward to serving you!