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By: Christine Hammond LMHC Alex was desperate to move forward after her divorce was finalized. She was so tired of every conversation with her close friends and family beginning with the phrase, “So how’s the divorce coming along?” She wanted to talk about her, not her as a divorcee, but the person underneath the cloak of a bad marriage and a nasty divorce. Her dreams, likes and dislikes, ambitions, and passions were as forgotten during the divorce as they were in the marriage. She felt swallowed up in her marriage by a dominant personality and then lost in the storm of her divorce. Tired of being tossed around by everyone else’s beliefs for her and about her, Alex wanted to claim her life back for herself. But how does she begin? She tried to talk to her friends but they just focused on activities they liked to so. She needed to discover what she enjoyed on her own and then fold her relationships into that and not the other way around. Here are 30 ideas Alex use...

By Cara Griffin-Locker It is a new year and a new you.   This time of year is a great time to embrace starting fresh and a good time to think about new aspirations and meaningful goals.   It is a time when we ponder on what our story will be.   It is also a time when many of us set the wonderful eagerly anticipated New Year’s resolutions. Sounds great, right? Maybe the part about the goals and aspirations and the possibility of writing a whole new story, but what about the resolutions? If you are like most people, you set the resolution knowing it is going to be broken or soon forgotten.   Or better yet, you set a resolution just because everyone else is setting one. Who loves setting a resolution that is often not kept and leaves one feeling discouraged, defeated and depressed in the middle of January? Why do we do this to ourselves? Is the societal epidemic of keeping up with the Joneses partially to blame? Or can we simply blame ourselves for the lack of t...