It can take 1-2 years or more to recover from divorce or separation. You need to create a new identity, discovering who you are as a single person, finding a sense of belonging in your community, finding or consolidating social networks, and adjusting to single parenthood. If you have kids, you have to re-learn how to deal with your ex, shifting communication styles, becoming more formal and distant. It may be hard to create new boundaries with your ex.   The fighting may continue, or one of you …

The techniques I will show you during these meet ups are simple to learn. They helped me personally through my own divorce and self-discovery, where expensive talk therapy didn’t lead anywhere. This group is not going to satisfy those who wish to remain in their victimhood. This group is for people who are intending to face their own shadows, discover unconditional love of self and others, and allow transformation and wholeness to set in, as they rise up from the ashes of a divorce or break up.

If you have kids, you have to re-learn how to deal with your ex, shifting communication styles, becoming more formal and distant. It may be hard to create new boundaries with your ex. I offer a workshop that helps parents start thinking about this process of parenting together while living apart. In San Francisco: fourth Tuesday of the month. In Berkeley: fourth Monday of the month. Susan Regan, MFT specializes in Therapy Services for Divorce and Separation to help people going through this dif …

Are you a Bay Area woman pre, mid or post divorce who is seeking a sense of community and belonging? You've come to the right meetup group! Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW, is the founder and director of the Transition Institute of Marin. She has been holding divorce support groups and divorce information workshops for the past ten years throughout the SF Bay area. Author of two books, Contemplating Divorce, A Step-by-Step Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go, and soon-to-be-released, Str …