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Drs. Barb Hughson and Wayne Benenson: Steadying Kids in Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 143
The parents get to separate. The children do not. They pack a bag, cross town, and adjust to a different set of unwritten rules, and then do it again…
2 years, 3 months ago
Dr. Yael Dubin: The Window of Tolerance in a High-Conflict Case
Season 2024 Episode 142
Collapse is a stress response, not a character flaw. That distinction runs through this whole conversation, because in the middle of a family court c…
2 years, 3 months ago
Christelyn Karazin: Communal Narcissism and Black Women
Season 2024 Episode 141
Her community agrees on which man is the right one. Church, college, no record, no other children. It goes badly in ways she had no language for at t…
2 years, 3 months ago
Stephanie: What an Attorney for the Child Actually Does
Season 2024 Episode 140
In family court, almost everyone speaks for the child: each parent, each parent's lawyer, sometimes the judge. Stephanie's entire job is to make sure…
2 years, 3 months ago
Karen Chellew: Spotting Financial Abuse and Hidden Money in Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 139
In a high-conflict divorce, control doesn't stop at the emotional. It follows the money. Karen Chellew, co-founder of My Divorce Solution, joins Lisa…
2 years, 3 months ago
Angela Torregoza: VAWA, Abuse, and Your Immigration Status
Season 2024 Episode 138
The threat is familiar to anyone who has coached an immigrant parent through a separation: leave, and you lose the country, the money, and the childr…
2 years, 3 months ago
Chelsey Brooke Cole: Mindset Shifts for Healing From Abuse
Season 2024 Episode 137
People come out of these relationships still carrying the other person's rules. They will tell a coach they are not allowed to take that vacation, no…
2 years, 4 months ago
Demetria Graves: Detachment, Resilience, and Strategy in a Toxic Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 136
In a toxic divorce, the person on the other side is often trying to get a reaction out of you, because your reaction is useful to them. Family-law at…
2 years, 4 months ago
Male Victim Jon: What a Narcissist's Gift Really Means
Season 2024 Episode 135
He'd been clear about the one thing he wanted for Christmas. He unwrapped a pair of coveralls instead. It sounds small, until you understand that in …
2 years, 4 months ago
Dennis Vetrano: The Truth About Staying Together for the Kids
Season 2024 Episode 134
"We're staying together for the kids" is one of the most common reasons people give for not leaving a toxic marriage, and one of the most misundersto…
2 years, 4 months ago