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	• The Courage to be a Single Mother: Becoming Whole Again After Divorce Sheila Ellison HarperOne, 2000 - 263 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lily of the Valley Carnie, author, Chi Gung: Chinese Healing, Energy, and Natural Magick

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My Bible for single motherhood

I heard about Sheila's book as she was featured on Oprah. Oprah advertised the show as a "must see" for anyone going through a divorce. My mother taped the show and bugged me until I watched it. After watching, I went out and bought the book, but I couldn't afford it, so I was going to read it and then return it. As I read the book I got out my highlighter and began highlighting sections, then when that wasn't good enough, got out my post-it notes to mark pages. I have since bought 14 copies of the book to give to friends going through a divorce.

Sheila's book became my "Bible" as I went through the "journey" of my separation/divorce and single parenthood. She has been in the trenches with us, knows what it is like to stay up all night worrying about money and how it feels when your ex is too busy with his life to have time for the beautiful children you have brought into this world.

I have never had a book that I felt was a friend. When I was down or had a question, I could find support and guidance in this book. The sections are clearly marked and the words are written by someone who really cares.

This is a must have book for anyone going through single motherhood.

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Crucial Divorce Help For Real Women

If I read one more article about how some big celebrity couple is having an amicable divorce, but the wife and kids are doing great, I think I'm going to scream! No normal woman or child can go through divorce without some Emotional trauma. More importantly, THESE CELEBRITIES DON'T HAVE MONEY ISSUES TO DEAL WITH. When you don't know how you can keep up the payments on your house (or if you will have to relocate your kids to another town or at least another school system) there's a sense of urgency that I never see celebrities discuss in People magazine. When going through a divorce I discovered that there is a laundry list of money matters that I had to work out for my kids at a time when I was least emotinally prepared to do it. My therapist and several women in my support group urged me to read a book called "SIMPLE MONEY SOLUTIONS: 10 WAYS YOU CAN STOP FEELING OVERWHELMED BY MONEY AND START MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU" by Family Circle Columnist, Nancy Lloyd. Her eye-opening chapter on dealing with the financial aspects of divorce and how to go about finding the best lawyer, financial planner and tax and pension experts made the difference between my kids having a financially secure future and not. Nancy includes lots of other important advice on money matters but this chapter was the one I (and my kids) would have lived to regret had I not been told about it. And Sheila Ellison's book has helped me deal with many emotional aspects of the divorce that took me months to even realize my kids and I were going through (the shock of the divorce lasts much longer than I ever would have thought). Both books are written in a warm and supportive way. What Sheila and Nancy write will spare you and your kids a lot of unneeded suffering. Both books got my kids and me through the worst time of our lives.

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