Gabrielle Hartley - 29 Jan

Y ou are cordially invited to revolutionize your perspective on separation and divorce. If your marriage or partnership is coming to an end, the book you hold in your hands is an innovative manual for cultivating presence and poise as you move forward. Its a map to your grace as well your growth for months and years to come. This is your invitation to quiet your mind, access your clearest thinking, and create progressive solutions.

Would you like this time to be the most intentional time of your life? Would you like to emerge from this moment centered in your most refined state of being? What if the end of this relationship were transformed into a powerful healing experience that prepared you to face challenge and taste sweet success? Dissolving your relationship responsibly requires courage, steadfastness, and emotional flexibility. As youll experience, the content of this book will help you look back at this time with pride, having handled yourself with both agility and dignity. This is your invitation to practice five key states of being: patience, respect, clarity, peace, and forgiveness.

In my work in the context of divorce, Ive observed clients and peers embracing a more positive state with quantifiable results. By dissipating negative emotions and consciously cultivating patience, respect, clarity, peace, and forgiveness, youll more easily regulate your responses to legal proceedings, custody disputes, and other common triggers. By being more responsive rather than reactive, you might save months of time and thousands of dollars; you also might move more clearly forward on your path to fulfillment and freedom.

Since I began practicing family law nearly twenty-five years ago, helping families like yours transform positively within the context of divorce has been a privilege. Professionally, my goal is to help you craft a mutually beneficial arrangement for your family, boost your emotional health and that of your children, and counsel you through legal matters during this fragile time. I can say from personal experience that good divorce outcomes are possible, even in emotionally fraught contexts. My parents divorced creatively and consciously when I was a young child, and their choice to live around the corner from each other and visionary plan to share custody had a lasting impact that formed the foundation of the work I do today to revolutionize divorce as we know it.

As a longtime teacher of yoga and meditation, Elena Brower works to help you locate your grace, love the lessons, and ease your familys experience of this time. Elena and I are here to walk with you, offering guidance and our own professional and personal experiences. Having manifested her own graceful divorce, she offers you precise, potent practices in order to dissolve your fear, stabilize your heart, and design your familys calm future. Elenas path will be a beacon for your own, even at the hardest points.

In this book, expect to sense our support throughout your process. There will be bumps in the road, and it can get messy. Our commitment is to walk you through the five essential elements with easeful explanations and personal shares. Youll practice implementing patience, respect, clarity, peace, and forgiveness throughout your divorce process and into the future. Youll explore what youll need to know legally, including selecting the optimal way to work with a lawyer and/or a mediator, and whether you actually need to go to court. We will delve into matters of your finances, parenting, and healing your mind and your heart. Handled well, your divorce will be a stepping-stone to your highest freedom and most conscious living.

Your Role in This Book

Shifting your state of being will take intention and effort. This process demands discernment, efficiency, and willingness. Right now, you might not have the time nor the emotional energy to read a long book with extensive instructions. So Ive distilled my experience and advice together with Elenas simplest practices into clear, concise steps and prompts that will make a difference in your divorce and life right this moment.

You neednt be an experienced attorney, a meditator, or a yogi to be here; the tools in this book are designed to be accessible and highly efficacious for all of us. Our recommendations and writing exercises offer constructive, favorable shifts for you and your family.

Engaging in this approach takes tenacity and willingness, and the benefits are substantial. This approach is grounded and doable, with compelling examples and uplifting practices to help you move forward. Even if you find yourself in a state of confusion, anger, or sadness right now, you are on the precipice of a metamorphosis. When this process is complete, your elegance will light your familys path to higher love and courageous freedom. Its our honor to help guide you and walk with you.