Welcome to Divorce Well, a fresh new holistic approach to support for those experiencing divorce or separation.
Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive community that integrates a healthy approach to healing and growth in the midst of transition. Welcome to Divorce Well, a fresh new and holistic approach to support for those experiencing divorce or separation. Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive membership community that integrates a healthy approach to healing, self-care and growth that exp
ands beyond our regular support group meetings – one which provides a safe and healing space to transform both personally and socially and welcomes all levels of involvement. Our programming includes Healing Yoga; Mindfulness Workshops; Art Therapy; Wellness Retreats; and Educational Classes specifically designed for individuals experiencing divorce or separation. Having experienced divorce herself, Founder Brooks Baldwin established Divorce Well in order to create a supportive and loving community for those experiencing divorce or separation in which holistic self-care and support is steeped in a generous dose of dignity and grace, with the expectation that transformation (or at least an enhanced outlook on life!) of each participant is a distinct reality. Brooks, a collaborative divorce attorney and mediator, is driven by her passion to reach out to and come alongside individuals experiencing the disorienting and decidedly solitary rite of passage called divorce. Our focus is holistic self-care, self-awareness and support of our membership community – all steeped in a generous concoction of dignity and grace. And eventually, it is our hope that each participant will come to find that personal transformation (or at least an enhanced outlook on life!) becomes a distinct reality. Along the way, we encourage all to listen, to share, and to “feel all the feels” associated with divorce or separation – including grief, anger, uncertainty, fear, relief, or a rich combination of all, we’ll work together to process, digest, and heal from this challenging life episode. With the pandemic upon us, we’ve shifted most of our holistic and educational programming to livestream platforms with the intention of once again offering our rich and supportive array of programming in-person when health and safety standards allow. For more information about Divorce Well and its Wellness Programming, please visit our page - https://www.facebook.com/DivorceWell/, or Meetup page for Membership options - https://www.meetup.com/Divorce-Well-The-Divorce-Wellness-Project/
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Welcome to Divorce Well, a fresh new and holistic approach to support for those experiencing divorce or separation.
Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive community that integrates a healthy approach to healing and growth that expands beyond our uplifting support group meetings – a community which provides a safe space to develop both personally and socially and welcomes all levels of involvement.
While conventional divorce/separation support services maintain a singular, albeit excellent, focus to them – talk therapy, at Divorce Well, in addition to talk therapy, we’ll be providing a host of wellness-oriented programming encompassing the body/mind/spirit spectrum, because we know that healing, transformation and the creation of a healthy community can be fostered and attained via a multitude of healthy and creative outlets.
Co-founders Brooks Baldwin and Elisa Behrens have established Divorce Well in order to create a supportive and loving community for those experiencing divorce or separation in which holistic self-care and support is steeped in a generous dose of dignity and grace, with the expectation that transformation (or at least an enhanced outlook on life!) of each participant is a distinct reality.
Both partners are well-seasoned in the area of divorce, having experienced their own divorces and being single parents to youngsters (now grown).
Brooks’ challenging and heartbreaking divorce experience in the early 2000s has informed and shaped her life ever since. Prior to, throughout, and on the heels of her lengthy divorce, Brooks enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist specializing in spas and wellness which allowed her to travel throughout the world, experience myriad hands-on healing treatments delivered to her at some of the most renowned and restorative sanctuaries and destinations, and to engage in countless alternative curative modalities and philosophies. She became a devout believer in the holistic (body/mind/spirit) healing power of wellness practices.
During her divorce, Brooks participated in her church’s divorce support program, and following her divorce, volunteered as a facilitator for that same support program in order to give back to a program that she had benefited so immensely from. She has served in the facilitator role for various support programs for a combined period of 10 years.
Brooks became acquainted with the concept of Collaborative Divorce, a cost-effective distinctly-customized divorce process facilitated by highly-supportive collaboratively-credentialed professionals which focuses on respectful and creative settlement solutions for couples who wish to avoid costly and contentious litigation and the dread of going to court. Having experienced an unrewarding career as an attorney, within a decade Brooks left the law and launched her freelance spa/wellness writing career in in the late 1990s. A dozen years later, upon familiarizing herself with the uniquely positive and transformative aspects of Collaborative Divorce, she immediately gained her collaborative credentials and opened a holistic divorce practice from her home office in Lake Forest Park in 2011. Brooks enjoys a richly rewarding collaborative divorce practice that provides a calm and welcoming atmosphere and a nurturing approach to working with her clients featuring a two-pronged focus - the overall health and wellbeing of her clients, and the attainment of a dignified and mutually agreeable legal resolution to the divorce.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Please note that unless otherwise indicated, Divorce Well and its event organizers/instructors/leaders are not licensed mental health professionals and do not claim to offer professional mental health therapy or mental or physical diagnoses.