When I was raising my kids, we had a phrase I would use. Our house was a BLAME FREE ZONE. As you can imagine - that meant that anything and everything that came up they had to own. When they would start to falter and go into a, "Well, I couldn't do that because I...
Announcing the showing of Split the Film by Ellen Bruno! NOTE: This event has past! On May 7th, 2015 Mill Valley's It Takes A Village is sponsoring The Mother Rising's showing of Split, the film. Split is a fabulous documentary for children and adults done entirely...
These are the things that I long to hear when I hit those moments of feeling so desperately alone. Those times when there is simply no one, no one to talk to about your day. NO one that can appreciate in the way you can your magical moments with your...
I'm a busy single mompreneur. I've been traveling from Tiburon,CA to Denver, CO, back to Tiburon and then to LA and back over this last month and half. Meanwhile juggling starting my podcast, lining up guests and an insane 2/2/5 shared custody schedule. Never...
When your world is crumbling around as you go round and round the crazy roller coaster ride of divorce...join me once a month to discover the 9 things that you CAN count on during divorce. In not having any type of roadmap, we can become overwhelmed, exhausted, and...
I have spent a lot of time lately writing and writing and writing...writing emails, writing content for web landing pages, for videos, for marketing material, for my radio show...and on and on. Truly all that I am writing comes from the passion within as it...
There were several stellar examples of broken couples who were able to make it work for their children's sake in my opinion. "It's all about the kids," they told me. It's not easy, but we just put our differences aside and know that what we are doing in holding a...
This article was originally written with the intent of helping those of us encountering family and friends around the holidays whose discomfort with conversing about our divorce or separation was painful to be around. However, after re-reading it, I believe what I...
People always look at you after you have gone through a divorce, and they really want to know and see within you that you are, indeed, happy. My dad asks me all the time, "You're happy, right?" Hell yeah I'm happy! Whew! Quite the journey, but happy, joyous, in...
I get it. I do. I understand that my ideas for parenting seem “different” than what other people think. Ultimately, I truly don’t care what anyone else “thinks”. At the end of the day, they are my kids during my custodial time, and I am graced to be the one who...
