Divorce Source Radio

The psychological impact of living with a HCP crushes your self esteem often leaving you, the spouse insecure, reactive and bitter.  Dr. Gayle Reed shares how forgiveness is a healing balm for the spouse of the HCP.  She explains the traumatic impact of verbal and emotional abuse and the psychological defenses you use to manage the resulting anger, pain and confusion.  

While forgiveness seems to be for the HCP, it is actually fo...

Today’s episode is dedicated to your healing journey. Those of us who marry HCPs have our part in the dysfunction as we discussed in episode 2 -  Divorcing A Narcissist: The Personality Disorders and Dysfunctional Dance of High Conflict Marriages. 

We are excited to have Ross Rosenberg with us again today to share deeply effective strategies for healing from codependency, a self love deficiency disorder.  Ross speaks passionately...

As we began discussing in our last episode, communicating with a high conflict personality (HCP) is often frustrating and fruitless, and leaves us feeling angry, exhausted and unheard.

Today’s episode offers a unique and powerful approach to communicating with a narcissist that enables you to protect your interests without conflict or drama! This strategy neutralizes combative and emotionally charged power struggles and inspires ...

Today’s powerful episode gives you the strategies and tools needed to communicate more effectively with your spouse’s high conflict personality.  You have been struggling with criticism, deflection, blaming and black and white thinking.  You have doubted your own version of reality, lost your self esteem and tried time and again to reason with your spouse to no end.  What you didn’t know was that communicating with a HCP requires a...

You kids have been experiencing conflict throughout the marriage, even if you think you have ‘hidden’ it from them.  Now that a decision has been made to divorce, tensions will only rise. It is all the more important to focus on protecting your children now while navigating a high conflict divorce.  

Deciding when, how and what to tell the kids about the divorce is just the beginning.  Figuring out how to parent in the ‘in betwee...

You kids have been experiencing conflict throughout the marriage, even if you think you have ‘hidden’ it from them.  Now that a decision has been made to divorce, tensions will only rise. It is all the more important to focus on protecting your children now while navigating a high conflict divorce.  

Deciding when, how and what to tell the kids about the divorce is just the beginning.  Figuring out how to parent in the ‘in betwee...

Entering the legal process of any divorce feels frightening and overwhelming.  For those entering high conflict divorce, the fear and confusion is escalated due to years of living in a dysfunctional marriage and the complexities involved when divorcing a high conflict personality.  

There is often a greater need to be in the court system due to the power imbalance in the relationship, the lack of transparency of one spouse, and the...

Living with a narcissist is ‘crazy making’.  Understanding your role in the ongoing insanity is vital in order to create lasting change. In order to navigate your divorce effectively and strategically and emerge confident and renewed, it is essential that you keep your focus on that which you have power over...your thoughts, feelings and behavior.

Today’s episode invites you into a ‘coaching experience’ where we validate your reali...

COVID-19 is impacting our lives in many ways. For many of our listeners, this virus is affecting their plans to divorce, or how they might be dealing with a past divorce.

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If you have lost yourself amidst your marriage with a narcissist, today’s show will reveal and explain much about the insanity you have been living with.  It is vital to understand the traits of the pathological narcissist and your role as a codependent in order to emotionally heal and change behaviors that have kept you stuck in your unhealthy marriage.  Our guest, psychotherapist Ross Rosenberg, coined the name 'Self Love Def...

High conflict personalities drive high conflict divorces. If you have been married to and are divorcing this type of personality, today’s show helps you to understand the traits common to this personality type. You will begin to understand your spouse’s inability to manage his/her emotions, their black and white thinking, extreme behaviors and tendency to blame are common to his/her personality and not about you. Our guest expert,...

Join Steve and Toni in this week’s episode of Being Single Live from the “D” as they discover what it takes to develop confidence and work your way from Fearful to Fabulous with Author, Confidence Coach and Divorce Recovery expert Fiona Eckersley.

On this episode of Being Single:

Join Steve and Toni as they continue the journey of understanding and connection with Personal Development Coach and Author, Jonathon Aslay.  On this episode of Being Single:

Toni and Steve are back with the 1st episode of 2020. Steve and Toni recently decided to start dating after years of knowing each other through hosting this show together.

This episode highlights Steve spending Christmas in Chicago and meeting Toni's family, and then traveling back to Detroit for New Years with Toni meeting Steve's family.  Meeting the family of someone you just began dating can be quite interesting, to say...

The Anatomy of An Affair series with David Feder continues with Being Alone for The Holidays in Episode #7.

For many the significance of the Holiday Season is a combination of religious significance, gift-giving and reconnecting with friends and family.  But after an affair, what once seemed easy is now more complicated.  What is the right kind of gift to buy and what message do I want to give are now questions that need to be ...

Your Divorce Settlement has been negotiated and agreed upon.  Now it is time to step off the divorce battlefield take off your ‘coat of armor’ and begin the task of coparenting post divorce.  The good news is that much of the ongoing stress and tension around the negotiations quickly melts away which provides you with the opportunity to be fully present in attending to your children’s needs. But old habits die hard...so today we ar...

As we continue our post divorce series, today is all about you guys!  As you enter your new life chapter, we will guide you on how to refresh and reinvent yourself through style and image. Today’s guest will share tips on how to become your most authentic, magnetic and powerful self. Grab a pen and begin to explore how to hone in on the deeper blocks keeping you from attracting your dream woman!

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Your new life chapter provides an opportunity to reinvent yourself from the inside out.  You have stepped off the ‘battlefield of divorce’ and now is your time!  A time to refresh, renew and decide how you want to present yourself to the world.  It helps to understand what looks best on your body type and how to go through your closet to get rid of those items that don’t make you feel good about yourself.  We look at the new you a...

Once your divorce is final, you are so relieved for it to finally be over, that it is easy to miss the crucial steps that can only be taken after your divorce is final.  This vital step allows you to secure and protect what you received in the settlement and sets you up for financial stability post divorce. 

In today’s show Aviva Pinto helps review everything from closing accounts shared with your ex to retitling your policies, inv...