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Contributed byKaren Chellew, Co-Founder and Legal Liaison, My Divorce SolutionAccording to the Holmes and Rahe’s Stress Scale, divorce is second on the list of the 43 life changing events that affect your health.  I remember myself as a young 29 year-old, having...

Supporting children through divorce. When is the right time to tell them. 

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. CDC works to understand ACEs and prevent them.

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Contributed byStacy FrancisDivorce can be very complicated and take a huge emotional toll on you. The last thing you need is for your divorce to be financially unnerving, on top of that. One of the biggest questions divorcing moms have is “am I going to be financially...

Lindsay is a full-time working mama to two busy kiddos, ages 12 and 15. While a mountain girl at heart, she has found her home in the Arizona desert where she enjoys hiking, country swing dancing with her husband, learning about holistic health and wellness, and writing whenever she gets the chance. She loves encouraging other mamas who may be feeling stuck or overwhelmed, and is a firm believer in the motto “this too shall pass.” You can usually find her hanging out on Instagram, @lindsay.blaszak.

Divorce recovery is painful, yes, but it is also a gift.
Your divorce happens FOR you, not TO you.

Money and divorce. These topics can cause pain and heartache. Ending a relationship with
someone you love can be traumatic enough on its own, but in today’s society, that pain is often magnified by the legal stress and expense of divorce proceedings.

Creating boundaries doesn’t make you a jerk. But it does mean that jerks can no longer hurt you.

Life is created by our decisions or indecisions. It took me a very long time to accept this reality. See, over
five years ago, I was in an unhealthy relationship, and in all honesty, I had been thinking of leaving the
relationship for the last two years. Every time I took a step towards it, fear held me back.