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How to Handle your Emotions During a Divorce
By Shelley Stile · 15 years ago
Divorce brings out the lunatic within us. Rage, anger, depression, sadness, resentment and blame are just some of negative emotions running the show. Your emotional state is hard to pin down from one moment to ...
The Real Divorce: Cutting the Ties that Bind
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
Your divorce decree is only step one in moving into a new life after divorce. The real divorce is the cutting of the emotional, mental and physical ties that still bind you to your ex-husband. ...
Moving On After Divorce
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
There is no single more powerful stumbling block to moving beyond our divorce into a new life than the inability to accept our new reality. Acceptance is the hardest part of the divorce recovery process. ...
The Cost of Being Right: How to Increase Happiness
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
One of the highest prices we pay in life is the cost of being right. Some of us will sacrifice almost anything just in order to be the last one standing. A person who had ...
Getting the Most out of Life
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
What happens when a sense of dissonance in our life is ignored? More likely than not, it will result in a life filled with regret and bitterness. You deserve better: you deserve to get most ...
The Second Half of Life
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
I’m 56 years old. Really. It seems like yesterday I was bopping down the streets of Manhattan with my buddies and today I’m in bed by 10 pm. And whose body is this? Not to ...
Our Aging Parents
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
I am now in the generation whose parents are getting old and sick. It’s the cycle of life. I remember when my grandfather was in the hospital dying. My Father was by his bedside all ...
Divorce recovery: Releasing Toxic Emotions
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
The way to recover and thrive after divorce is simple: Until you can release the toxic emotions surrounding your divorce, it is impossible for you to move forward in life and be happy. It takes ...
Cultivate Awareness and Change Your Life: Life Lessons from the Rainforest
By Shelley Stile · 16 years ago
The rainforest in Central America taught me a wonderful lesson: if you can quiet yourself and truly focus your attention on your surroundings, you will see a multitude of things that were seemingly invisible. To ...