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Divorce Recovery Links

Divorce Recovery Links:

	"The Stages of Grief" Discusses the 5 Stages of Grief
	"His Plan For Your Life" Hope for a new life with the right person.
	"Life's Lessons" Why We Have to Go Through Pain
	"Prayers for Serenity and Peace" Prayers For When You Feel Lost and Alone
	"The Garden of Serenity and Peace" 3 Pages of Uplifting Affirmations and Verses
	"Comes the Dawn" A Poem of Survival
	"The Weaving" The Plan For Our Lives
	"My Love Story" There really can be Happiness after Divorce.
	"Can I Save My Marriage?" A Look At Realism In Divorce
	"A Reason, A Season or a Lifetime" Why marriages sometimes don't last a lifetime
	"B. E. (The Beginning Experience)" A weekend retreat that will help you heal from your loss
	"Real Life" What happens in real life isn't what we expect
	"Things to Ponder" Some "tidbits" to make you think about your life.
	"The End" Why and How it ends.
	Let Them Go When people want to leave, let them go.

Toolkit To End Violence Against Women

Letter from U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (PDF) To provide concrete guidance to communities, policy leaders, and individuals engaged in activities to end violence against women, the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women developed the Toolkit To End Violence Against Women. The recommendations contained in the Toolkit were reviewed by numerous experts in the fields of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. Each Toolkit chapter focuses on a particular audience or environment and includes recommendations for strengthening prevention efforts and improving services and advocacy for victims. We encourage you to consult all chapters of the Toolkit for instruction, guidance, and inspiration. Community-Based Services Children and Youth Health and Mental Health Care Educating the Public Civil Remedies The Media and Entertainment Industries Criminal Remedies Faith-Based Groups and Organizations Additional Justice System Responses Sports Economic Security Native Women College and University Campuses The U.S. Military The Workplace The International Community Download Acrobat Reader

Related links for coping with a divorce or breakup

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Related links for coping with a divorce or breakup

General information about divorce and relationship breakups

Separation and Divorce – Advice from a relationship psychotherapist on how to accept a relationship is over, cope with the fall-out, and move on. (BBC)

Coping with Separation and Divorce – Helpful tips on how to cope with and recover from a separation, divorce, or relationship breakup. (Mental Health America)

Separation and Divorce – Tips on finding emotional support while going through separation or divorce. (Canadian Mental Health Association) 

Recovering From a Break-up – Article describes what you can to do recover after a breakup, including how to cope with painful feelings and learn from past mistakes. (UC Riverside Counseling Center)

Divorce Matters: Coping With Stress and Change (PDF) – Practical guide to restructuring family life and coping with the loss and change that come along with separation and divorce. (Iowa State University)

Divorce and breakup coping tips

10 Steps to Recover from a Divorce or Breakup – Describes ten ways to help you recover from a breakup or divorce, get your life back on track, and guarantee a bright relationship future. (ThirdAge)

The Top 10 Ways to Survive a Breakup without Breaking Down – Offers advice on how to make it through a love breakup and learn from the experience. (CoachVille)

Relationship Break-Up Living in the Void  – Tips for making it through the pain of divorce and feeling your grief. (Thriveafterdivorce.com)

How to Survive a Break-Up – Month-by-month advice for coping with a divorce or relationship breakup. (goodtoknow.co.uk)

Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., Gina Kemp, M.A., and Melinda Smith, M.A. contributed to this article. Last modified: December 08.

My Dad is PapAmore': a crimson hue of grief

My Dad is PapAmore': a crimson hue of grief

LET ME LIVE By MVJ Simon

LET ME LIVE By MVJ Simon 

I want to watch the sun rise on Mt. Kanchenjunga
And feel its warm rays seep down to my heart

I want to lie down on a moist grass carpet
And feel the rhythm of my own heart beat

I want to watch the sky lying down
And see the stars shine down on me

I want to sleep on a rustic canoe
And let the lakes waters gently rock me deep

I want to drink sweet nectar
Freshly drawn from a wild flower

I want to ride a stallion
Bareback with no saddle and stirrup

I want to fly out into space
And look at earth down below

I want to reach to my fellow man
And comfort him when he’s down

I want to lend a helping hand
And lift up the ones who are in need

I want to live a full life
And live on after I am gone

 

PapAmore': How could my Mom's Birthday be Happy, when my Dad is no longer here?

PapAmore': How could my Mom's Birthday be Happy, when my Dad is no longer here?

Once upon a time, because He so deeply loves us and really wanted us to see, God put a face on True Love.  He allowed us to witness an "in real life" story of what "to truly cherish someone" means.  

Lucky us, most of all, who saw this up close...and when we did, we were struck with the knowledge of...this must be what life and love really means.

When I think of PapAmore' - when I think of my sweet Mom, the very first thing that comes to mind...is sacred love.  

Love that you're in awe of, love that makes you personally feel better to be around, love that must be the kind we'll someday know in heaven, a love that, just from witnessing, I will always carry closely within the innermost part of me.

This was not a selfish love, this love didn't swallow up in each other and escape from the world...rather it gave the one it most adored on earth the passion, support and desire to do even that much more, for every life it knew.

My parents never stopped holding hands under the table...they never lost that "drown in you" gaze.  When my Dad told me that once he met my beautiful Mother, that he never once laid eyes on another woman again...I never once questioned the validity behind his words.

It was a "look what I have" love, a "I am so blessed" love, a love that promised to thank God first and foremost forever for their greatest gift of each other.

A never could wain love, a never should die love...

A love that made sense of my own life's disdain...gave my pain in my marriage, my consistently beaten up heart, hope and belief in the possibility of something else more.  The complete knowledge that God's love, the way He intended love, isn't just a "Bible Story" but rather truly lives and breathes in the very ones I most adore.

How do you live without your soul mate?  

However could God take my Dad from my Mom?  

Why wouldn't He want them to continue loving one another forever?  

Didn't He see the great hope their love brought to everyone else around?

Why is the essential other half of the epitome of love on earth...no longer here?

My Mom's birthday is in 3 days...and the one thing, the only thing, she wants...is no longer here...

For PapAmore', Arend 'Odee' Lenderink