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Approaching Your Divorce With A Beginner’s Mind
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki, - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind In the interest of transparency, I disclose that I am recognized by the Florida Bar as an expert, and I...
The Importance of Your Story
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. ” -Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell was a mentor to George Lucas. The book The Hero with a Thousand...
Confronting Fear
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” - Mark Twain There is nothing like a divorce to provoke anxiety in a person. Much of what I do as a divorce lawyer in Clearwater, Florida, is convincing individuals that they have...
Lincoln’s Advice
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There...
Pain And Attachment
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Much of your pain is self- chosen…It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self…” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet There once was a divorce lawyer in St....
The Stages Of Grief As It Relates To Divorce
How does a divorce lawyer in Clearwater, Florida, explain the behavior of persons going through the divorce process? It turns out that there is a model that is helpful. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced a model for dealing with grief in her 1969 book, On Death and...
Gratitude: A Strategy For Coping With Your Divorce
Divorce is not what one normally thinks about as an event for which one should be grateful.. However, according to Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB, grateful people are happy . And it is not the other way around— happy people do not cause their own gratitude. In his...
Coping With Betrayal
Betrayal is an obstacle to problem solving. This phenomenon is observed throughout the course of human history. However, betrayal takes on special significance in the context of a divorce case. Once someone has been betrayed, trusting the betrayer is no longer...
Ambiguous Lives
On the day of birth, the rest of the life of a person is subject to ambiguity. This observation comes from none other than Pope Benedict the 16th. He was describing the practice of commemorating the date of a saint’s death, as opposed to the saint’s birthday. Until...