Your healthy divorce journey : A step-by-step guide through the process of divorce
(Book)

Table of contents includes: My Personal Divorce Journey; Questions to Ask Yourself If You Are in an Unhappy Marriage; Divorce Options; What Does a Divorce Actually Entail?; Talking to Your Children about Divorce; How Children of Different Ages Cope with Divorce; How to Take Care of Yourself as You Go through the Divorce Journey; Warning Signs of Trouble Coping: Symptoms of Stress in Children and Adults; How to Find a Therapist; How to Most Effectively Co-parent; Dating and the Introduction of New Significant Others to Your Children; Remarriage and the Blended Family; Conclusion.

From back cover: There is a right way to do divorce and there is a wrong way. Done wrong, the negative repercussions can last a lifetime - especially for children. Dr. Erica Ellis has helped over 1,000 families to divorce the right way over the course of her 30 years as a practicing psychologist.

Over the course of her 30-year career as a psychologist specializing in children of divorce, Dr. Erica Ellis has helped thousands of families make these decisions in a child-centered way, which serves to protect children from long-term emotional damage. She will walk you through every step of the divorce journey, from deciding upon which legal process to utilize, to how to best emotionally support yourself and your children, all the way through effective strategies for establishing new relationships and blending new families. Using examples from her clinical and Collaborative Divorce practice, Dr. Ellis provides the reader with practical advice and proven strategies that will help divorcing parents avoid many of the mistakes that are often made and will help build a foundation for parents and children to thrive post-divorce.