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Healing During and After Divorce program in Burke on Thursday, Feb. 28

When divorcing or recovering, help comes from having a support network and finding a professional who can help you navigate the legal issues at minimal cost and with minimal emotional damage.

 

Divorce often involves riding an emotional roller coaster: fear, anger, relief, denial, grief, exhilaration, guilt, blame, despair, anxiety, and, we hope, belief in your ability to heal and build a good life for yourself and your children. Two key factors in healing are (1) having a support network and (2) finding a professional who can help you navigate the legal issues at minimal cost and with minimal emotional damage.
This program will address both factors. First, Dr. Virginia Colin will provide an overview of legal issues and ways to address them. She will also answer your specific questions with information about the court system, litigation, negotiation, and mediation. In most cases, family mediation is the best process for working out custody, visitation, support, and property distribution.
During the second part of the program, you will have the opportunity to talk about the difficulties that you are coping with right now. The leader and program participants will listen with compassion and, if you want advice, offer suggestions. Participating in this program could be the beginning of having an ongoing support network -- a set of people who are willing to listen to you for hours, help you calm down when you need to, help you build your strength and confidence, and, if you have kids, help you find ways to work constructively with an ex you may hate.

To register, email Lynne@IntuitiveHealingCenter.com or call Dr. Colin at 703-864-2101


Virginia L. Colin, Ph.D., is a Professional Family Mediator Certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia. She specializes in working compassionately with estranged parents, helping them find ways to cooperate for their children's benefit. As a parent (married, then divorced, and then, years later, remarried), step-parent, foster parent, friend, counselor, and mediator, she has extensive experience with all aspects of family distress, separation, divorce, and subsequent changes. Having endured a long and awful litigated divorce and seen the damage it did, she strives to help other couples and ex-couples find a better way. She is not an attorney or a therapist, but she knows people who are. More information is available at www.fairfaxmediator.com.

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