This is the last in my series on the Divorce Encouragist and what strikes me about her story, is that divorce for her really has been a new beginning. It's changing the course of her life. Not only did she start relishing life after divorce , she saw the injustice of divorce and has started on the path to become a divorce coach. In fact, DE was headed off to a training course … [Read more...]
The injustice of divorce
Divorce for anyone is a time of upheaval and change. How much change varies from person to person. My divorce happened at the same time I was going through a career change - I can't say that one was caused by the other but the two were definitely connected. I was approaching 50 and on a quest to find happiness. The Divorce Encouragist was 27 when she got divorced. She … [Read more...]
Blogging Your Way To a New Career After Divorce
To recap, this series is about Lauren, who blogs at My Life Incomplete. Lauren was with her husband for ten years (married for five) and they split up when she was 28. She's been divorced for two years now. They have a son who is now four. When Lauren talked about finding the right track after divorce, she said she had started to write which was something she'd always … [Read more...]
Back To School After Divorce
Continuing with Carolyn's story, you'll remember she grew up overseas and moved to the U.S. as a live-in nanny when she was 20. She left her marriage at 27, with two young children, no job and no professional qualification. Not a very bright picture. Now, 18 months later, she's worked hard to earn prerequisites and has just been accepted into a two-year registered nursing … [Read more...]
Being A Proverbs 31 Woman After Divorce
In my last post about Elsi Dodge, Elsi shared how her devotionals came to be published in the Cup of Comfort books. Like so many things in life, this lead to a bigger opportunity, one that had a special reward for Elsi. Here's Elsi, About two or three summers ago, I got an email from an editor saying, "We're doing a book on women of the Bible and we're asking you to do one of … [Read more...]