Your Healthy Divorce Journey

Book excerpt: Your Healthy Divorce Journey is a step by step guide to navigate through the challenging process of divorce. Dr. Erica Ellis, a psychologist and collaborative divorce coach, provides a thoughtful, easy-to-read, and thorough exploration of the many questions, issues, fears, pitfalls and traps one encounters in this process. She walks you through every step of the journey, starting with whether you are ready to initiate a divorce, and including such topics as divorce options, what a divorce actually entails, talking to children about divorce, how to best support yourself and your children, strategies for most effectively co-parenting, the introduction of new significant others, and ultimately how to create healthy new blended families. Dr. Ellis shares her depth of experience and wisdom as a seasoned psychotherapist to help those going through this stressful process approach it from a child-centered perspective aimed at minimizing the emotional damage that it causes both the adults and the children involved. This holistic approach to divorce differentiates this book from many others on this topic. The ultimate goal is to help alleviate many of the reader's uncertainties and fears about this process and to provide them with specific strategies for working their way through the stressful divorce journey in the healthiest way possible.