Mediate For Life Divorce Mediation Center LLC

11/15/2022

Four months away from the 3d anniversary of Covid and I still feel like I am aboard the Jupiter 2 with the Robinson family and Dr. Smith, lost in space (and time) and wondering what will become of this world. Initially, here on earth, in early 2020, Divorce was the last thing on anyone’s mind or i...

04/14/2021

Spring is sprouting thoughts of Divorce, which had been tabled for nearly the past year and a half.

The past 14 months have been traumatic for just about everyone. A year of living within six degrees of separation from friends, family and co-workers who have lost employment; fallen sick; suffered the death of a loved one; fallen into despair because of a failed relationship or despondent because

01/26/2021

Past…Present…Future. Many people who enter Divorce Mediation have heir feet solidly encased in the Past. Their entire perspective is ensconced in the happenings of years of marital strife and discontent. When the divorce mediation session begins, the optics through which the parties view the pro...

01/11/2021

A New Year...Does that mean a New You?

On the first Saturday morning yoga class of 2021, our yoga teacher shared with us a Zen proverb: Before enlightenment ,chop wood carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood carry water. Immediately, the Divorce Mediator portion of my brain resonated with this seemingly simple thought. This proverb

09/23/2020

The Fall season is an excellent time to clean out the garage. The weather is cool and the air is crisp, making for perfect weather to sift thru the plethora of boxes that have accumulated where your car should reside. In a Divorce Mediation, the unpacking of the garage is highly charged with deep s

08/18/2020

The date is August 18th 2020 and the question is, “ What shape are you in?” Of course, for many of us, this question will resonate with feelings of guilt for not working out enough during the covid-19 pandemic and gaining unnecessary weight from stress eating. More important, the question asks u

06/11/2020

It has been three (3) months of Stay Safe-Stay Home. Some of us have had the opportunity to shelter at home while others have become our hero’s as the essential front line in the war against Covid-19. Many lost their jobs and livelihoods. Many lost their lives. We have all lost our grip on innocen...

03/19/2020

At this pivotal and difficult time we are all inundated with stress, anxiety, fear and anger. We are struggling to keep alive our capacity for compassion, generosity, positivity and hope as danger and uncertainty looms all around us. There have been countless shifts in perspective and priorities t

03/11/2020

Whether seeking a divorce or stressing over a family dispute, we can help.

It will be two years since our first blog entry. In the beginning we introduced our vision to “ reframe divorce.” It only took twenty - one months to realize that though, in our ‘minds eye’, we were seeing things clearly, our blog and mission statement were not being viewed with 20/20 vision...

02/10/2020

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What keeps a marriage going? Anything…Everything…and Nothing. Case in point is a couple very well known to me. Married in 1945 at the tender age of nineteen, their 74th wedding anniversary just passed in January 2020. What kept them married for more than seven decades? What sustained them throug...

01/14/2020

ME: " HI, HOW'S IT GOING?"
YOU: " CAN'T COMPLAIN"
ME: " WAIT FOR IT..."

This past weekend I attended my first yoga class of 2020. Not unexpectedly, the dharma began with a discussion of New years resolutions. However, it was not about resolving to lose weight or committing to turning ones back on white sugar. Rather the discussion centered on the fluidity of change.