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November 2022

Single Mom with Teenagers

By | 2022-11-25T09:43:38-08:00 November 18th, 2022|Divorce Self-Help|

Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash There have been memes regarding teenagers before the word "meme" existed.  The one that I recall seeing on little plaques in bookstores and novelty shops:  "Teenage grandkids are every grandparent's secret revenge on their own teenagers." I don't think my parents need revenge against me; I was a saint. [...]

Communication – Rules for Life

By | 2022-11-03T10:59:47-07:00 November 3rd, 2022|Beginning Again, Divorce Self-Help, Self-Help|

I'm an accountant. Accountants are notoriously bad at communication. Often, someone chooses to become an accountant because numbers are so straightforward. They are clear, concise, and easy to line up, deal with and sort. They are usually associated with projects and decisions with clear outcomes. I have stated it and will repeat it – I [...]

August 2022

Luck Should Not Be Part of Family Law

By | 2022-09-12T14:06:19-07:00 August 1st, 2022|Divorce Self-Help|

When telling the story of my divorce, at some point, I say, " I was lucky that when my spouse and I separated, the news was spotlighting the Collaborative Process." A news article led us to find the perfect lawyers to help us transform our lives and get us back on track. When I discovered [...]

March 2022

Split Personality

By | 2022-03-19T07:43:02-07:00 March 19th, 2022|Divorce Self-Help|

Photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash Did any of you watch Seinfeld back in the day? If you didn't, you can - it's now on Netflix. I watched Seinfeld, and there is one episode that resonates strongly with me. What I remember about the episode is that George was in conflict with his two personas: [...]

The CRA Punishes Two-Household Families

By | 2022-03-13T09:32:12-07:00 March 13th, 2022|Divorce Self-Help, Government Programs, News & Updates|

I originally posted this and emailed my MP in 2019, I never received a response. I have updated it and have resent it to the minister of finance. The issue persists. Dear Minister of Finance: I am a part-time single mom and a self-employed Chartered Professional Accountant. I work in the Collaborative Practice as a financial specialist to [...]

February 2022

Children

By | 2022-02-15T13:50:22-08:00 February 15th, 2022|News & Updates|

Having a child is not a chance for a do-over. Children are separate beings, and while they may have some of your traits, they are not you, and they are always going to be growing up in a vastly different world than the one in which you grew up. Have you seen the list of [...]

January 2022

The Future of the Child Support System

By | 2022-02-03T14:32:05-08:00 January 14th, 2022|News & Updates|

The Child Support System is Broken When will we stop with studies, anecdotal evidence, and "tweaks" to fix a broken Child Support System and go upstream and prevent people from falling into the broken system in the first place?  The current Child Support System perpetuates child poverty and trauma and leads to a never-ending cycle [...]

September 2021

Say Yes?

By | 2021-09-05T15:13:02-07:00 September 5th, 2021|Beginning Again, Self-Help, Small Business Tips|

In the very few moments when I wasn't working this year, I was thinking about working better. I got in over my head by saying yes to all work that came my way. Why did I say yes? Saying yes was my lifeline out of pandemic limbo. It combined with my life training not to [...]

August 2021

Balance

By | 2021-08-22T11:14:32-07:00 August 22nd, 2021|News & Updates|

Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash Balance. This past year I fell out of balance. The pandemic hit more than a year ago - at the time, no one knew what was going to happen - everything was uncertain, the world slowed down (unless you were a front-line worker), and many people either had nothing [...]

January 2021

Finding Happiness

By | 2021-01-03T12:01:47-08:00 January 3rd, 2021|News & Updates|

What are your rules for a successful life? And how did you develop the rules you follow? I frequently ask myself that question as most of my life; I followed a set of rules that I seemed to have absorbed from the air around me. It is only within the last seven years that I [...]