March 31, 2020

First 5s—Tips to Immunize your Marriage Against Coronavirus

COVID-19 has already resulted in numerous causalities. Even the best of marriages can be strained by social isolation and 24/7 togetherness. Those which previously experienced symptoms […]
March 31, 2018

Crisis Decisions: A Clinical Psychologist’s Perspective

Understanding how you personally make decisions can be essential when in the midst of life-changing events, like divorce. Today’s guest post by John M. Berecz, Ph.D., […]
January 9, 2018

Broken and More Beautiful in the New Year

Broken and More Beautiful in the New Year The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell […]
October 31, 2017

Be Afraid. Fail Spectacularly

It’s Halloween. We should be well and truly afraid today–of the dark and witches and sugar overload! On a transatlantic flight last month, I watched the […]
November 12, 2016

Assumptions–do they help?

The office calendar said our team meeting had been bumped by a mediation session. What? We take monthly team meetings pretty seriously around here. It’s not […]
August 30, 2016

Is life really that precious?

I ended a mediation session this past week and one of the soon-to-be-former spouses said, “I just don’t want to live. There’s nothing to live for. […]