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When Couples Decide to Separate in Couples Counselling

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Couples’ counsellors have supported many couples in navigating their relationships to build stronger, healthier, 

happier relationships. However, even with an affective couples’ counsellors sometimes couples wait too long to access services or may have to come to realize that the best decision is to separate.  

Commonly, the couple are afraid for their child/ren, lost in how to co-parent apart, terrified of becoming a divorce horror story, and concerned about the expenses of lawyers and court. They are in distress and afraid of what comes next.  

With the big question, Now What?  

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4 Ways to Prepare for Family Mediation

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Before we start, what is family mediation? 

Family mediation is an Alternative Dispute Resolution, that refers to providing a different way to resolve separation arrangements such as property, equalization of finances and parenting arrangements outside of a judge. Specifically, family mediation is where a neutral third party helps separating parents come to agreements. They are not marriage counsellors and cannot impose a decision.  

So, you hired a family mediator, Now what? 

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How your Kids will Benefit from a Co-Parenting Apart Relationship 

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The process of separating is one of the most difficult things a couple may face. When going through a separation you may feel anger, distrust, grief or a sense of betrayal with the other parent.  

The key to successful co-parenting: Place your child’s needs ahead of your own by separating the personal relationship from your completely new co-parenting relationship.  

Despite how difficult the situation may be, it is important to remember that you are still a family, you just look a little different than before.  

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The Other Pandemic

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Maybe you’ve noticed yourself or loved ones reacting more, crying more,
or just generally being more on edge. Your sleeping could be restless, and you find yourself much more tired than usual. All these signs are
completely normal given our current reality: we are anxious.

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On Purpose

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“Find your passion and work won’t feel like work!” Maybe you’ve heard something like this phrase from a friend, parent, or community leader.

Hopefully, these words are sent your way from a well-intentioned place that wants the best for you. But what happens when work, even work we are ‘passionate’ about, isn’t all that enjoyable — a far cry from it feeling not like work at all? [Read more…]

On the Topic of Needs

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Any connection to the media recently likely led you to two events that burn in the current social conscience.  One of those is a slow burn, while the other is a flash-point. The slow burn refers to COVID-19, a biological virus that has impacted us all, directly or indirectly.  The flash-point occurred on the evening of Monday, May 25, 2020 when a black man named George Floyd was killed by a white male police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  As of this writing, that police officer is charged with second-degree murder, and the three other police officers who were present at the time also have been charged with aiding and abetting that murder. [Read more…]

Navigating Together

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navigating together with counselling  Homebound as many of us still are, depending on how you look at it, we are given an opportunity to spend more time with loved ones, or are forced to deal with the relationships in our lives.  We can connect or disconnect.  We draw closer to those important to us, or we maintain distance, protective of ourselves and possibly fearful and defensive at the thought of being closer to another.  Those in the disconnect latter group have a greater tendency to go through the days with a certain impatience for things to return to what they were before, for routines to resume, for distractions to permeate our lives once more so that there will seem to be more urgent matters to attend to than our relationships. [Read more…]

The Show Must Go On

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movie theatreYou head out to a movie theatre to watch the latest blockbuster.  (It hasn’t happened for a while, we know.)  Popcorn and drink in hand, you find a seat with a good view of the large screen (or at least a decent view of it).  The lights dim, the coming attractions have played, and you are ready to settle in for the film.  The movie starts, and you are right into the flow and rhythm of whatever story unfolds before you.  That’s when it stops.  The image…paused.  The sounds…silenced.  An inconvenient interruption, but it’s just that: an interruption.  So you (hopefully) exhibit some patience and wait for things to resume.  And when they don’t, whether or not the interruption is accompanied by explanation (or a refund or raincheck), you leave. [Read more…]

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