Divorce support group



Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends

Divorce can be a broken experience, full of despair, disappointment, revenge, retaliation, hopelessness, and helplessness.  There can be a denial of events and a feeling of wanting to isolate one's self from the situation.  Many people feel depression, self-blame, and feelings of failure.  Out of this process, it is possible to accept the situation and rebuild your life.

A ten week course focusing on the adjustment process of a divorce, with a beginning, and end, and specific steps of learning along the way.

     
  + The rebuilding blocks - how to turn your crisis into creative experience
  + Adaptation - how to take behaviors learned as a child and develop them into more authentic behaviors
  + Grief - Grieving is an important aspect of ending a love relationship
  + Anger - find forgiveness for yourself and your former partner
  + Self-worth - move beyond pain and find the strength to grow
  + Transition - take charge of your life
  + Openness - choose to be free to be you
  + Love - learn how to love yourself and others
  + Relatedness - develop new relationships
  + Sexuality - understanding yourself and the way others feel
     

Men and women that are going through a divorce, thinking about divorce, or have been divorced are invited to discover how to take stumbling blocks and turn them into rebuilding blocks.

freedom

sexuality

singleness

purpose

openness

love

trust

relatedness

grief

anger

letting go

self-worth

transition

denial

fear

adaptation

loneliness

friendship

guilt - rejection


Rebuilding Books for Divorce and Beyond by Dr. Bruce Fisher and Dr. Robert Alberti are used in this course.

Leaders: Sue Cosgrove and Ruth Olson
Advisor: Pastor Kenneth Halstead

   
 

If you are interested in the divorce support group,
please contact Sue Cosgrove or Ruth Olson through the church office!