How to Handle Anxiety and Panic After Divorce
Anxiety after divorce can feel like a second betrayal. Just when you need to think clearly and hold your life together, your own body starts sounding alarms....
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Grief or Depression After Divorce: How to Tell the Difference
After a divorce, everyone tells you it is normal to feel terrible, and it is. But at some point a quieter, scarier question starts to surface. Is what I am...
How to Get Through the First Holidays After Divorce
The first holidays after a divorce have a way of ambushing you. The music, the traditions, the empty chair, the photos on other people's mantels, all of it...
How to Rebuild Your Identity After Divorce
One of the strangest griefs of divorce is not missing your marriage. It is looking in the mirror and not being sure who is looking back. For years you were a...
How to Feel Confident in Your Body Again After Divorce
Divorce has a way of landing in the body. You may catch your reflection and barely recognize the woman looking back, or feel that your body belongs to a...
How to Find Purpose Again After Divorce
For a long time, your days had a built in point. There was a household to run, a partnership to tend, a shared future to steer toward. Whether or not the...
When You Still Have Feelings for Your Ex After Divorce
The divorce is final. The paperwork is signed. And your heart, stubborn thing, did not get the memo. You still miss him some nights. You still feel a pull...
When Your Ex Has a New Partner: Talking to Your Kids
Few moments in a divorce sting quite like learning that your ex has someone new, and few are harder to navigate than when your children come home talking...
Building Credit in Your Own Name After a Long Marriage
If you were married for a long time, there is a decent chance most of your financial life was built on shared accounts and, sometimes, on his name. Maybe the...