The Secret To Divorce Success: Retool Your Resilience
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Q&A: "Resilient people make conscious choices every day for practices that energize, enliven or strengthen." Maria Sirois on powerful habits.
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The Art of Coping with Loss In the Real World
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BOOK EXCERPT: "We must uncover within us an aptitude for the art of losing." Clinical psychologist Maria Sirois shows how in A Short Course in Happiness After Loss.
Read MoreDazed and Confused? Hormone Imbalance Can Increase Stress
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Q&A: Even in a decent divorce, stress is unavoidable. Hormones can have a huge impact on whether we feel like “ourselves,” says Dr. Susan Sklar.
Read MoreYes, You Can Develop a Spiritual Life (And Why You Might Want To)
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A spiritual practice can remind you that you are part of a greater whole—a comforting awareness to bring to divorce.
Read MoreDivorce Recovery 101: The Do-Nothing Approach to Coping
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We often feel overwhelmed by urgent-seeming actions we must take in divorce. Sometimes the best route to recovery is to sit still.
Read MoreLiving With Loneliness (and Liking It?)
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How one man fought back loneliness after divorce, and learned to appreciate (or at least tolerate) being alone.
Read MoreThe Secret Super Power: Wonder
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PERSONAL ESSAY: "You know that feeling when everything you were building burns down?" How wonder helped one man recuperate.
Read MoreA Letter to My Daughter on the Eve of Her Divorce
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PERSONAL ESSAY: “'You’ll end up like your mother,' was one of the harshest critiques of your divorce. That’s why I’m writing this letter."
Read MoreMy Friends All Have Opinions About My Divorce: 5 Helpful Ones
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An inveterate advice-seeker shares the best input she received during her divorce and after.
Read MoreWriting Your Way Through Divorce
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You don't have to be a great poet to use expressive writing to help you move through divorce. It's a tool to help all of us face what we're feeling.
Read MoreDivorce Overwhelm? There's a Play in That!
/How one New Jersey-based actor, educator and mother wrote a one-woman play to help her laugh at—and learn from—her marriage's end.
Read MoreDivorce in Houston: Journalist Makes Copy from Chaos
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Kathryn Peterson is the "Carrie Bradshaw of the South," blogging about divorce for the Houston Chronicle's "Grey Matters" column.
Read MoreGretchen Rubin Writes about Splitopia
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I was excited to talk to the fabulous happiness guru Gretchen Rubin about Splitopia for her site.
Read MoreDoes Divorce = Failure? (Is Failure a Bad Thing?)
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Q&A: Author and journalist Carlin Flora on the upsides of falling short. Hint: you learn empathy, humility, maturity.
Read MoreHow to Bounce Back from Anything
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Q&A: "Being resilient doesn’t mean we don’t go through difficulties and hardships." Tal Ben-Shahar's five tips on bouncing back.
Read MoreDivorce Counseling Works Better Than Marriage Therapy
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I found it more productive to seek help with a discrete problem rather than a Total Personality Overhaul of my spouse, or me.
Read MoreGet Your Groove Back in Divorce
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Q&A: Sociologist Christine Carter talks about finding your "sweet spot," even in very sour times.
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Uplifting article in The Telegraph about the "trend" of older women and younger men.