by Tamara Mendelson | Dec 19, 2017 | Blog
Can you make a difference? The sixth largest economy in the world, that we call California, is in flames. This time southern California. At the end of summer, it was the Northern part of the state. Hurricane names have used up half the alphabet in 2017 alone and...
by Tamara Mendelson | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog
Every day can be difficult after a breakup or divorce. Celebrating the holidays after divorce can be a miserable time fraught with emotion and disappointment. There’s no getting around the fact that your first Christmas/ Hanukkah post-divorce is going to feel all...
by Tamara Mendelson | Nov 6, 2017 | Blog
One of the funniest things a divorced friend said to me was about her ex-husband finding someone new. She was in a blue mood and I asked her why. She said, “99.9% of me is very happy he found someone. It’s the other .1% that hoped he would never get over me.” I...
by Tamara Mendelson | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
We may not be husbands or wives anymore, but we are parents for life. Even if they don’t live with us all the time, and don’t need us in the same ways. Even though we have an empty nest. For the first 30 some years of my life I wasn’t a parent. I was an older sister,...
by Tamara Mendelson | Oct 2, 2017 | Blog
“Fake it ‘til you make it.” “Put your game face on.” “Never let them see you sweat.” Now, I’m not saying that you should fake happiness as you endure the grief and anguish of a separation or divorce. But if I learned anything from my own divorce, showing your guts to...
