S2:15: Negotiating a Healthy Future
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Divorce affects the design of a family. How do you negotiate now to avoid complications and ease tensions down the road, especially when it comes to a new step or blended family? This episode will help you figure out how to do just that.
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S2:14: How Your Child Really Feels
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Being attuned to your child is critical to helping them bounce back from divorce. Learn how to give your child the support and tools they need to thrive during divorce and beyond.
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S2:13: Being Your Best Self Through Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
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S2:12: Divorce Without Court
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Find out why "getting your day in court" may not bring justice in the end. This episode will help to clear up misconceptions about divorce court. Learn how divorce mediation can give you more control over the process and pave the way for healing. This episode will explain why divorce court rulings can be unpredictable and what you could expect, why divorce court isn't the place to seek vindication and place blame, and how divorce mediation makes you the final decision-maker, not a judge. Key Points: - Judges are human. They're often overworked and can make arbitrary decisions. Find out...
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S2:10: Being Resilient Through Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Feel like you'll never bounce back from your divorce? Listen as Pamela Elaine Nichols, divorced mom, author & speaker, shares how she turned her pain into purpose. Learn how you can apply her life lessons to cope, heal and thrive despite divorce. This episode will discuss how you can overcome the pain of divorce, what skills you need to regain hope and perspective after divorce, and how to create your own divorce resilience plan. Key Points: - Resilient people are not naturally immune to stress and depression. They've learned tangible skills that help them successfully manage life's...
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S2:9: Creating Parenting Plans that Work
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
As a loving parent, you worry about your children's well-being during divorce. Learn how to create a parenting plan that will give them the consistency they need and minimize conflict with your ex-partner. Listen to learn what exactly a parenting plan is, how a plan can help you work with your ex-partner, and when co-parent counseling can help. Key Points : - Learn how to create a legally-binding document that defines what is most important to you as a parent - everything from household rules to medical needs. - Hear how the process of developing a parenting plan can put you both...
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S2:11: Making the Holidays Happier
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Concerned about how to handle the holidays as a divorcing parent?The holidays are stressful, even for the best intentioned parents. Listen to how both a divorced mom and dad bounced back and made it work. This episode will help you to manage powerful emotions that arise during the holidays. Even if your family has had time to process the divorce, the first holiday season is likely to be difficult as you grieve old traditions and memories. Use this episode to discover how to cope in a healthy way.
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S2:8: Making Your Move
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Separation is often the start of the divorce conversation. Who should go? Who should stay? Will I lose rights if I move out? Hear from a panel of experts so you can part ways in both of your best interests. This episode will share what you should know about legal rights before you move out, what temporary living arrangements work, how to decide whether to keep or sell the house, and some ways to sell your house quickly.
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S2:7: Paying for College After Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
"Who will pay for college?" Financing your child's education is confusing on its own, and divorce adds another layer of complexity. Learn how divorce affects financial aid, costly mistakes to avoid, and what you need in your divorce settlement agreement to make college affordable. Listen to hear how colleges calculate what you are expected to pay, when 529 plans are helpful, what types of financial aid are available, and how to structure your divorce agreement to pay for less college.
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S2:6: Negotiating with Power
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Negotiating financial terms is one of the most stressful parts of a divorce settlement. Understand your "money story" so you don't get angry - or get taken. This episode will help you learn why money is such a hot button in a divorce, define your money story and set yourself on course to reach agreement, work out a fair divorce settlement with a new mindset, and transform your relationship to money following divorce.
info_outlineConcerned about how to handle the holidays as a divorcing parent?The holidays are stressful, even for the best intentioned parents. Listen to how both a divorced mom and dad bounced back and made it work. This episode will help you to manage powerful emotions that arise during the holidays. Even if your family has had time to process the divorce, the first holiday season is likely to be difficult as you grieve old traditions and memories. Use this episode to discover how to cope in a healthy way.
Key Points:
- Get ideas for new, positive traditions and deal with gift giving. Find out how to set expectations, communicate changes and create a happy, celebratory atmosphere over the focus of presents.
- Balance what you need and what's best for the kids. Learn the most important question to ask yourself as you make plans for the holidays.
- Handle expectations of extended family. Hear tips for managing the advice, demands and requests of grandparents, aunts and uncles.
Sponsored by Main Line Family Law Center
For more information, please visit: Main Line Family Law Center at https://myhealthydivorce.com
Episode Host, Adina Laver, Founder, Courage to Be Curious, (formerly Divorce Essentials)
Find Adina Laver at: https://couragetobecurious.com
Guests: Pamela Elaine Nichols, MHS and Neal Wingenbach
Find Pamela at: https://www.pamelaelainenichols.com/
About Pamela: Pamela Elaine is the mother of four children who, like many mothers, put the wants and needs of others first and ignored her own. As a result, her marriage came to a screeching halt. Determined to bounce back strong from divorce, she created a 4-part “Resilient Beauty” practice for health and happiness, which she now shares with other mothers. In her new book, Muddy High Heels: 14 Lessons Learned from My Breakdown, Breakup & Breakthrough, she writes about how to overcome barriers that hold mothers back from their physical, emotional, spiritual and financial beauty.
Pamela Elaine is President of her business, Destined for Greatness Enterprises, Inc. She has appeared on several radio and news spots to promote health and well-being for women, including The Dr. Oz Show where she shared her story of building her business as a healthy way to bounce back from divorce.
About Neal: Neal Wingenbach is an IT Sales Professional who resides in Houston. Divorced in 2010, he is a father of two. During his transition from married life into single dad life, he found comfort in hearing from others who were going through the same experience. To pay it forward, he hopes to be able to help others during this difficult time of year.