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_outlinePreparing for Divorce: What to Expect Emotionally
This episode will help you to navigate your path with focus, dignity, and confidence. Preparing for divorce can be isolating and completely chaotic at the same time. There will be times when you wish someone could just rescue you from the insanity. Because divorce can feel lonely and crazy, this episode will help you learn how to get through it all and stay sane in the process.
Key Points:
- Why divorce can feel so very lonely.
- How to build a support system to help you survive and even thrive.
- The value of support groups to combat the loneliness and confusion.
- How to guide your friends and family to provide the kind of support you really need.
- How one man emerged from an unhealthy marriage and started his own divorce support group for men.
Sponsored by Main Line Family Law Center
For more information, 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: Bill Halpin, Katey Moody, BSC, MBACP
About Bill: Through his own experience of divorce, Bill Halpin has made it his personal mission to help men support one another through this life transition. From owning a construction business to now in his 3rd year student at the Pennsylvania Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, Bill understands the challenges men face and how they can grow through divorce and beyond to better manage relationships, fatherhood and their own well-being. Most recently, Bill started the Men's Divorce Recovery Support Group, in Wayne, PA, with Katey Moody. Bill holds a B.S. from Drexel University. He has one teenage son and lives along the Main Line area just outside of Philadelphia. Contact Bill at [email protected].
About Katey: As a counselor/psychotherapist for over 25 years, Katey Moody has expertise in transition issues, particularly divorce and empty nesting, anxiety, anger and stress management, depression, self-esteem, teenage and parenting difficulties. For the past two years, Katey has run Coming Out of Marriage, a support group for women through Women's Resource Center. She also co-facilitates the men's divorce support group with Bill Halpin. Accredited by the British Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy, she is certified in Gestalt. Katey has a private practice in Devon, PA. Contact Katey at [email protected].