Overcoming Divorce
The issue of divorce, both as we are going through it and subsequently how we develop our lives, creates a major challenge. Many aspects of our life may drastically change: our daily routine, our financial resources, where we live, and our relationship with our children and other family members.
We may feel overwhelmed with powerful emotions of anger, fear, and stress now that our lives are in turmoil. Feelings of confusion and doubt about how to proceed may predominate our thinking.
We may naturally look for advice - whether legal, financial, or emotional, and yet a stark reality will evenutally hit us - we alone ultimately have to make the multitude of decisions, control our powerful emotions, and deal with various parties.
When our divorce is finally consummated, we still need to decide how we will best live our lives under these drastically changed circumstances. We need a method to help us work through these issues in an ongoing way.
Please have a copy of our brochure on divorce
Benefits
The Intensive Journal method provides specific techniques through our integrated system of writing exercises to help you:
Connect with the many facets of your life
- Access your experiences and emotions throughout your life to connect with the real you: your interests, talents, passions, and priorities.
- Gain a perspective on the direction and continuity of your life from which to develop the next steps forward.
Work through issues about your divorce
- Intensive Journal exercises help you connect with the many facets of issues you are facing in divorce and beyond. Our process can help you clarify your thoughts and how to approach these matters.
Process the multitude of feelings inside you
- Use Intensive Journal exercises to work through your wide range of emotions to gain clarity and understanding.
Deepen your connection to personal relationships
- Explore and perhaps enhance family relationships to gain understanding from different perspectives.
- Work through sensitive issues to become better prepared to discuss them with family members.
Define and clarify your priorities and values
- Define your priorities and values. Notice how they may have changed, and their implications for your life.
- Answer the question: what brings you meaning?
Endorsements
The Intensive Journal workshops have helped me to stay in conversation with myself in the continuity of my life and as I evolve, especially after divorce when my heart -- as Rumi teaches -- had broken open more than I thought I could possibly bear.
I learned a new way to go within for my own wisdom, to have conversations with myself and conversations I'd never had with other people in my life and even with my ex-husband. The dialogue brought me more healing, closure, and self-compassion than I could have ever dreamed was possible
Seattle, WA
I have been married and divorced twice. The Intensive Journal method gave me plausible reasons why the marriages didn't last. I had to reflect and understand my relationships with the women in my life - my mother, my sister, former girl friends, former wives, female work colleagues, and female casual friends. The method helped me to feel much better about myself and to still continue to have positive and healthy relationships and friendships with women.
San Francisco, CA
In retrospect, I believe that if I had not attended the Intensive Journal workshops and therefore become more attentive to my inner processes,...I might never have taken the steps that led to such a fulfilling personal and professional life that I have experienced in the following 30 years.
Articles on Divorce
We are providing the articles both in written and audio form, explaining how the Intensive Journal Method can help people overcome traumatic experiences.
1. Overcoming the Challenges of Divorce
By Nancy-Elizabeth
2. Overcoming the Challenges of Divorce (Audio format)
