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The Ultimate Guide to Parenting Through Divorce

Experience and Psychology-backed resources to help you and your kids get back on your feet

When you leave a marriage with kids, there’s a whole added layer of pain and healing to manage. You’re grieving, confused, angry, and trying to sort out living arrangements and, on top of that, you need to deal with kids who are hurting at the same time. It’s tough.

We all know the research about the damaging effects of divorce on kids. You may have stayed in your marriage too long for that exact reason. Perhaps you’re even wondering now if you made the right choice? What we often forget are the damaging effects of staying in a toxic relationship. Divorce doesn’t mean you have a broken home; the toxic marriage is the broken home.

If you work on healing yourself and helping your kids to process their emotions, you can create a healed, peaceful, happy family for them to grow up in — even if they live in two separate houses.

When my own marriage ended two years ago, I decided to use my knowledge and training in child development and psychology to help myself, my kids, and hopefully other parents going through the same thing.

After divorce, your brain is fried by stress and concentrating on long articles or heavy…

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Kelly Eden | Essayist | Writing Coach
Kelly Eden | Essayist | Writing Coach

Written by Kelly Eden | Essayist | Writing Coach

New Zealand-based essayist | @ Business Insider, Mamamia, Oh Reader, Thought Catalog, ScaryMommy and more. Say hi at https://becauseyouwrite.substack.com/

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