In April 2009, we interviewed on Get Your Justice Live, author Mike Jeffries on the issue of Parental Alienation and his new book titled A Family's Heartbreak. (Amazon).
Mike Jeffries appears again on WomensDivorce.Com with a new article, Coping as an alienated parent. In the article he speaks of moving on:
Move on emotionally. Don't concentrate on the relationship you once had with the alienated child. Get past the anger. Don't beat yourself up. Focus on the positive. Understand how you got here. Get some exercise. Do volunteer work. Write in a journal. And when all else fails, recite the serenity prayer:
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can not accept
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Good advice from someone that has been through parental alienation and documented the entire process on both sides of spectrum through a parents' perception and a clinical perception. If you haven't had a chance to catch up with the full article, visit WomansDivorce.Com here. It is important to understand the dynamics associated with children of divorce when there is ongoing conflict between parents. The adversarial process harms children in our family courts.
There are two resources that every divorcing parent should be required to read. The first resource of course is A Familys Heartbreak (Mike Jeffries and Dr. Joel Davies) and then the second resource is Stop Fighting Over the Kids (Attorney Mike Mastracci). These two books show you the aftermath of poor decision-making that feuding parents can make before, during, and after a divorce or child custody dispute.
My thanks to WomensDivorce.Com and to the professionals that are aware that reforms are necessary to protect children and parents from the harms of the adversarial family court process.
More resources on Parental Alienation:
- A Familys Heartbreak Site:http://www.afamilysheartbreak.com
- Parental Alienation Hurts:http://www.parentalalienationhurts.com
- Dr. Amy Baker: http://www.amyjlbaker.com
