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Joe Dillon: Why Mediation Beats Court, Even in High-Conflict Divorce
Season 2025 Episode 293
Joe Dillon puts the odds of mediation working at 90 to 95 percent, even when the two people are furious with each other. Only about 2 percent of divo…
1 year ago
Dr. Karen Molano: What One Steady Parent Can Do for a Child
Season 2025 Episode 292
Most of the things we take seriously come with preparation. Careers, marathons, music. Parenting arrives without a manual, and Dr. Karen Molano got t…
1 year ago
Maggie Nielsen: Building the Financial Side of Your Divorce Team
Season 2025 Episode 291
Separating a marriage is separating a business, Maggie Nielsen says, and anyone with dollars in it needs someone whose job is the dollars. Attorneys …
1 year ago
Johnny Fernandez: Dating Again After a Toxic Relationship
Season 2025 Episode 290
What would it take for you to believe that a relationship where you are treated well is genuinely available to you, and not just something other peop…
1 year ago
Christopher Anderson: Fairness, Control, and the Future You Want
Season 2025 Episode 289
Conflict is expensive because it pays you something in the short term, Christopher Anderson says. It scratches an itch. You feel like you are winning…
1 year ago
Jacintha Field: Play Therapy and Regulating Kids in Divorce
Season 2025 Episode 288
A child comes apart over an ice cream, and the adult concludes the child is being ridiculous. Jacintha Field runs the tape back: they were rushed out…
1 year, 1 month ago
Leah Mazur: Rewiring Negative Self-Talk After an Abusive Ex
Season 2025 Episode 287
Leah Mazur named hers Maxine. Maxine is the voice in her head that questions everything she does, and giving it a name is what let her hear it withou…
1 year, 1 month ago
David Pisarra: How Fathers Can Get More Time in Custody
Season 2025 Episode 286
Loving your children is not evidence. That is close to the first thing David Pisarra says to almost every father who walks into his office, because i…
1 year, 1 month ago
Sophora Acheson: Can an Abusive Partner Actually Change?
Season 2025 Episode 285
Someone arrives at Restorative Pathways because the next domestic violence charge means prison, or because child protective services has said the nex…
1 year, 1 month ago
Charlie McCready: Sending Gifts to an Alienated Child
Season 2025 Episode 284
Gifts sent to a child who has been turned against you often do not arrive at all. The ones that do can put the child in a position they cannot manage…
1 year, 1 month ago