Rebuilding Your Foundation

Maybe you’re here feeling exhausted.
Like you’ve just climbed a mountain, but you’ve finally reached a decision point:

Separation

Perhaps it’s been a really long road. Or maybe it came quickly, but with enough impact that you’re left trying to catch your breath. Regardless of how and when you got here, there’s a good chance you are experiencing complicated and sometimes contradictory emotions:

Wherever you find yourself on this emotional journey, it might feel like you are being asked to make important decisions before you are truly ready. This course is designed to help you take care of yourself while you care for your children.

Healthy parents are better parents.

As a global community of separation and divorce professionals, the Our Family in Two Homes team is on a mission to help families thrive - by enhancing your preparation for the decisions you will make for your family, and helping you build the brightest future for yourself, and your children.

Yes - you've got some decisions to make. We want this course to help you make the best decisions for your future.

Read on for some hopeful words from the creator of this resource, Jacinta Gallant, family lawyer and mediator.

“Never cut what can be untied.” 

Ropes make knots and knots are useful – think fishing, rappelling, rope ladders and bows. Learning to tie shoelaces is one of our early achievements. When we marry, we “tie the knot”.

On the flip side, when we are anxious, we can feel all “tied up in knots”. The hangman’s noose is a knot. The Gordian Knot symbolizes an intractable problem. And most parents have struggled to get knots out of our children's hair!

Chances are, you are feeling some knots in your stomach as you face important decisions about your future.

You are not alone. 

Family relationships are complex, challenging and beautiful - like knots and the complicated arrangements that make them. A strong knot can strengthen connection, build trust and support a lot of heavy stuff. But, when trust and connection are broken, separating couples face a challenging decision:

Do I “cut and run”, or do the work of untangling
what feels like an impossible and painful knot? 

As a divorce lawyer and mediator, I meet courageous people every day who find ways to untie rather than cut their connection, and who regain their sense of self (and worth) in a difficult time. In doing the work, they build resilience for themselves and their children.

Our hope is that the knots in your stomach will eventually turn into “butterflies” as you find your way into a future that you hadn’t planned, with opportunities for self-discovery along the way.  

You've got this!
Jacinta Gallant, Creator of Our Family in Two Homes

Never Cut What Can Be Untied is from Joseph Joubert (1754)