A Healing Divorce : Transforming the End of Your Relationship with Ritual and Ceremony
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Book Description
A Healing Divorce is unique. There is no other book devoted solely to rituals for divorce and ceremonies of parting. Written by a formerly married couple who have remained friends, this compassionate and practical book demonstrates how ritual can transform and heal the end of a relationship. If you divorce, your marriage will end in a ritual -- a court hearing; cold, impersonal, adversarial. You may also find yourself in thrall to the Myth of the Bad Divorce. This myth insists that all couples breaking up must recite the same harsh ABC’s: accusation, bitterness, conflict, anger, blaming, and contempt. It doesn’t have to be that way. Based on the authors’ personal experience, as well as interviews and extensive research, A Healing Divorce offers a way to diminish anger, alter destructive patterns, and end a relationship with truth, love, care and forgiveness.
About the Author
Phil and Barbara Penningroth have lived what they write about in A Healing Divorce. Together, they created and performed a parting ceremony to end their 25 year marriage. Since then, they have remained good friends and co-written this book. It is based on their own experience and informed by their many years as mental health professionals, as well as by the inspiring stories of others who have used the transforming power of ritual and ceremony to bring healing to the end of their relationships. Barbara is a Registered Nurse and a Marriage and Family Therapist. She currently lives in Carmel, California. Phil is a freelance writer with articles, stories, plays and screenplays to his credit. He currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.
A Healing Divorce : Transforming the End of Your Relationship with Ritual and Ceremony,Phil and Barbara Penningroth,Author House,1587217937,Divorce & Separation,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Family/Marriage,Fiction / Literary,Healing,Rites and ceremonies,Separation & divorce
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