If you answered,
yes, and yearn to find a more conscious and healing way to end
your relationship, then A Healing Divorce is for you.
Written by a couple who have lived through their own divorce
and remained friends, this book shows you how a parting ceremony
can transform anger and bitterness into positive energy that
will help you heal the past and create a new life for yourself
and your children.
The book A Healing
Divorce: Transforming the End of Your Relationship with Ritual
and Ceremony is for all those who long for a way to ease
the pain of divorce and end a relationship with with forgiveness
and healing.
Don’t believe the
Myth of the Bad Divorce! Couples
breaking up don’t have to recite the same harsh ABC’s—accusation,
bitterness, conflict; anger, blaming, contempt. A Healing
Divorce shows how ordinary people speaking a new language
of caring, truth and peace have parted more consciously by creating
and performing divorce ceremonies, and how you can do it, too.
Based on personal experience, extensive research and the intimate
stories of many people, this book offers compassionate and down
to earth guidance that can help anyone — couples, individuals,
families, clergy, lawyers and counselors — understand the power
of ritual to transform divorce.
A Healing Divorce
is unique. It includes inspirational stories, frank discussion,
practical recommendations and many examples of rituals and ceremonies
drawn from Christian, Jewish and ecumenical traditions. Step-by-step,
it shows how to prepare and perform a parting ceremony and demonstrates
how the healing potential of ritual can even lead to friendship
with your ex. A special chapter on children suggests ways that
ritual can help heal these innocents, and a one-of-a-kind contact
list in the back of the book offers a way for you get personal
advice and assistance from lay people and clergy who have created
and performed parting ceremonies of their own. A Healing
Divorce is the only book that embraces the painful realities
of separation and offers a new way to make parting more conscious
and this important family transition more life affirming.
