10 Reasons to stay positive after a divorce

Life during and after a divorce can be crippling, but there are many reasons to stay positive. Psychologist Michael Jolkovski posed the ques...

5 Steps to Being More of an Optimist

Life is easier and generally more enjoyable if you're an optimist. Research shows that optimists enjoy many health and lifestyle benefit...

The Benefits of Looking on the Bright Side: 10 Reasons to Think Like an Optimist

Having a cheery disposition can influence more than just your mood. "People who are optimistic are more committed to their goals, are m...

Adversity: An Opportunity to Choose Growth

Adversity will happen It’s guaranteed. The more important and interesting question is how will you choose to engage with it. What will you d...

Optimism and the Power of Positive Thinking

“How do you do it?” my friend asked me one day over coffee. “You’ve had some awful stuff happen to you over the years, but you’re still so c...

How to get back on your feet after divorce

Divorce is rarely easy, but for mums already struggling to balance their work and family responsibilities it can be harder to cope with. Whi...

Older Women & Divorce

"Till death do us part," brides and grooms may have once said, but increasing numbers of Americans aged 50-plus are getting divorc...

Rules of Engagement: Setting the Stage for Post-Divorce Dating With Kids

This is a good news/bad news situation. The good news is now that your divorce is final and you survived the temporary insanity that it caus...

10 Common Dating Struggles Children Of Divorce Face

You're not alone. Children who’ve witnessed their parents’ marital problems and divorce sometimes replicate those behaviors in their own...

5 Ways My Parents’ Divorce Affected My Adult Relationships

I’m a child of divorce. Have you read the studies about me? Did you hear somewhere that I had difficulties in math class and/or severe emoti...

Moving from ignorance to enlightenment

I've been trying to work out how any process of personal growth and improvement, or recovery from times of adversity can be mapped out i...

Why divorce doesn't have to be bad for kids

Kids don't have to lose out when there's a divorce. Bronnie Marquardt talks to parents who've found ways to help their kids thri...

Divorce and separation: It's all about the kids

While the relationship you have with your partner may have broken down, the one your kids have with both sets of parents is for life. Author...

Start where you are, do what you can with what you have

"Start where you are, do what you can, with what you have"  - Arthur Ashe If we were all able to remember and apply this advice as...