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Thriving After Divorce: Transforming Your Life When a Relationship Ends
Author and relationship coach Tonja Evetts Weimer offers readers a grounded approach to growing through the difficult life transitions that arise from the breaking of our most defining partnerships.
The end of a significant relationship initiates painful and powerful change in one's life, daily habits, and even in one's personal identity. Tonja Evetts Weimer's book will guide readers through a potentially tumultuous time to a safe place by showing how to put one's actions in alignment with one's needs and values for positive outcomes that will strengthen and prepare the heart for a new path.
The key is in learning how to create an authentic new life, and therefore, a different relationship with the partner in the absence of shared romantic love. This relationship allows the possibility of any continuing combined goals, while building and sustaining necessary boundaries and guidelines for new interactions.
Weimer shows readers how to deal with shared responsibilities involving children, mutual business interests, the care of family members, and other situations that require both parties to work together in the new space of the relationship.
Thriving After Divorce speaks to anyone who has gone through a breakup, providing hope, alternatives, empowerment, and inspiration to find a new way to relate to former situations and relationships that, in the past, could have been fractious.
The end of a significant relationship initiates painful and powerful change in one's life, daily habits, and even in one's personal identity. Tonja Evetts Weimer's book will guide readers through a potentially tumultuous time to a safe place by showing how to put one's actions in alignment with one's needs and values for positive outcomes that will strengthen and prepare the heart for a new path.
The key is in learning how to create an authentic new life, and therefore, a different relationship with the partner in the absence of shared romantic love. This relationship allows the possibility of any continuing combined goals, while building and sustaining necessary boundaries and guidelines for new interactions.
Weimer shows readers how to deal with shared responsibilities involving children, mutual business interests, the care of family members, and other situations that require both parties to work together in the new space of the relationship.
Thriving After Divorce speaks to anyone who has gone through a breakup, providing hope, alternatives, empowerment, and inspiration to find a new way to relate to former situations and relationships that, in the past, could have been fractious.
226 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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July 22, 2021
Nonfiction. Self help. Divorce.
The author breaks down thriving after divorce into a person's take, actions and outcomes. The book is broken down into chapters for each section and gives examples and advice.
Written in 2010, the psychological advice is now a bit old, but the book is still worth reading just to read examples about people who have been there and some positive messages.
The author breaks down thriving after divorce into a person's take, actions and outcomes. The book is broken down into chapters for each section and gives examples and advice.
Written in 2010, the psychological advice is now a bit old, but the book is still worth reading just to read examples about people who have been there and some positive messages.
January 7, 2013
I have been through two break-ups of long term relationships. It would have been extremely helpful to read Tonja Evetts Weimer’s Thriving After Divorce at some point along the road. If I had read it after the first break-up, there is no way I would have entered into the second relationship. If I had read it after the second break-up, my path to ‘thriving’ might have been a little better lit.
I am never one to play the If Only game, so I accept that I am who I am now because of the round about path I took. However, because of my more arduous journey, I recognize an excellent guide book when I see it, and Tonja’s Thriving After Divorce is it.
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I am never one to play the If Only game, so I accept that I am who I am now because of the round about path I took. However, because of my more arduous journey, I recognize an excellent guide book when I see it, and Tonja’s Thriving After Divorce is it.
To read the full review visit http://silverandgrace.com/book-review...
October 15, 2014
I picked up this book at the library when unwanted renewed contact with my ex sent me on an emotional roller coaster. I wish I'd had this book 4 years ago at the time of my divorce. I was able to see what happened in a new light within the first 80 pages and have found peace after 4 years of struggling with a strong sense of rejection and inadequacy. Ms. Weimer is a life coach and does a good job of coaching the reader into new, positive frames of mind that are empowering and take the feel of being a victim out of divorce. I highly recommend this book. It actually wouldn't be a bad book for a single person, in general, the last section has great information on dating and meeting new people.
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