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Table of Contents & Excerpts

	Divorce Recovery Journal Table Of Contents Reviews Excerpts Meet the authors: Linda Senn Mary Stuart
by Linda C. Senn & Mary Stuart, M.A. ISBN 0966567226 (256 pp) Price $15.95 Free Shipping in the U.S.	Add to CCNow Cart Guarantee Shipping Policy Special Offers!

The Divorce Recovery Journal is composed of three sections that cover the roller coaster time from separation through the divorce to a reasonably balanced new life.

Phase I - Looking Down: Represents the time when you can scarcely lift your head out of the black hole of desolation.

Phase II - Looking Out: Deals with the divorce itself and offers some effective coping mechanisms for getting through it withthe least amount of damage.

Phase III - Looking Up: Moves you along into the new life of real recovery

One of the most beneficial exercises you can do while enduring an emotional trauma is to journal your thoughts and feelings. Therefore, we have left a space on each page of the book for you to jot down your entries... written or pictorial. I'ts our belief that you can never express yourself too much!

Excerpts

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Thoughts:

Zen masters encourage students to live fully in the present. If you're stuck in your past playing "what if" games with yourself, or churning around in your future playing" ain't it awful," you'll miss your present life completely. Look around at what's happening right now, this minute, this second. That's the only time there is. Don't lose it.

Your Thoughts:

Am I here... now?

Never eat more than you can lift.
~ Miss Piggy

Our Thoughts:

Food is often a comfort in our stress and aloneness. Denying that fact only leads to frustration and is a set-up for perceived failure of self control. Instead learn to be selective. If what your spirit craves is chocolate, don't try to make do with carrot sticks. It won't work. Sometimes we really do need to satisfy that yen to comfort our souls.

Your Thoughts:

What treats in reasonable amounts boost my spirits?

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
~ Mark Twain

Our Thoughts:

Better still, find a physical outlet for that anger. One of the handiest venting methods around is stomp walking. Go for a good, long walk using the same thunderous steps you would if you were Godzilla crushing Tokyo! Kicking pebbles along the way is good, too. It's a bit hard on the feet, but an effective rage defuser.

Your Thoughts:

What else besides stomp walking would diffuse the energy of my anger?

The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
~ Joseph Campbell

Our Thoughts:

Remember to acknowledge the courage, stamina, and determination within your soul that are moving you forward in the long process of becoming single again. As the days pass and challenges are successfully met you'll feel stronger than you thought possible. And know that, now, you are indeed living an individual adventure.