May
18
2:30 PM14:30

Divorce Support Group: Getting Ready to Move On

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Smarter Divorce Solutions is offering a monthly support group for people who are navigating through a divorce.

Are you feeling blindsided by your spouse’s decision to leave?  Have you finally chosen to divorce but struggling with your choice and the fear of the future?

  • Are you deep in pain & devastation?

  • Feeling hopeless?

  • Bitter and resentful?

  • Struggling with confusion and fear?

  • Frustrated by your inability to focus?

…Then this divorce support group is for you.

Let this divorce be your last divorce. Join a group of individuals experiencing the challenges of divorce together.  We create a safe and judgment-free environment in which to explore yourself and your circumstances with support and understanding.

Whether you are struggling through the legal process or stuck post-divorce, or unsure of how to move forward this divorce support group is designed to support you in moving forward when you are feeling stuck. With the guidance of your facilitator, Carrie Doubts, you will be assisted in clearing the emotional fog, making good decisions for the highest good of all concerned, and experiencing a sense of peace and hope for the future.

To register for this event, click here.

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Virtual Valentine's Day Seminar
Feb
14
4:00 PM16:00

Virtual Valentine's Day Seminar

Nobody to kiss me today…

Nobody to kiss me today…

Valentine’s Day

You know it’s coming. Just seeing the date on your calendar arouses the pangs of loneliness that come from not being part of a couple on this day that celebrates romantic love. This separation/breakup/ divorce has shredded your heart. Valentine’s Day is just another painful reminder of the past.

You may think your options are limited for coping with V-day. Several come to mind - hide from it, complain about it, ignore it, etc. How do I know? Been there, done that.

Here’s another option: You can come experience LOVE with a community of people who get how you feel about it so you can enter into the dreaded weekend at PEACE with yourself and the world. Make this a date with your self.

WHAT: Virtual Valentine’s Day Seminar

WHO IS IT FOR? Men and women in all stages of the divorcing process

DATE: February 14, 2020

TIME: 4:00 - 6:00 Mountain Standard Time

WHERE: Zoom

COST: $19

In this virtual seminar, we will explore:

  • Some of the myths about romantic love and how they lead to pain and suffering

  • How to take care of yourself when your heart is hurting

  • What it means to really love yourself - even when you don’t feel lovable

You’ll come away from our time together with:

  • An experience of love and acceptance from a community of people who get what you are going through

  • An understanding of the true nature of love - what it is, and what it isn’t

  • Tips and tools you can use to invite love back into your heart (that have nothing to do with dating!)

Join us as we share, celebrate, and lift each other up. You don’t have be alone.


Here’s a lovely poem by Maya Angelou to remind us all that nobody makes it on their own.

Alone

Lying, thinking

Last night

How to find my soul a home

Where water is not thirsty

And bread loaf is not stone

And I don’t believe I’m wrong

That nobody,

But nobody

Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone

Nobody, but nobody

Can make it out here alone.

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Living an Open-Hearted Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop
Apr
13
10:00 AM10:00

Living an Open-Hearted Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

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A highly experiential, transformational workshop for people going through the heartbreak of separation and divorce.

“The basic truth is that you are loved and wholly lovable…We start to tell stories about ourselves when we forget the basic truth. These stories are normally based on a basic fear, and that fear is ‘I am not lovable.’”

~Robert Holden from his book, Loveability

What’s the best revenge when someone dumps you?

It’s you moving forward and really thriving after you’ve parted ways. It’s you stepping into the knowledge that you are whole, capable, resourceful - and absolutely lovable - no matter what. How do you do that - when you feel like you’ve been completely and utterly rejected by the one you love (or used to love)?

Most of us think our lovability lies in the hands of another to decide. When your marriage is over, you may feel so rejected and unloveable that it seems pointless to ever trust another with your heart. Seeking love from outside of ourselves is ultimately disempowering and disheartening. When you depend on another to make you feel loved, it usually ends in pain and suffering. No one can do that for you.

We’re going to take a deep dive into Love in this workshop - specifically into the practice of loving YOURSELF. Your primary relationship is with yourself. This is not selfish or narcissistic. If you don’t love and cherish yourself, how can you expect someone else to do that for you?

Our basic fear is that we are unloveable. It plays out in deeply held beliefs we have about ourselves like, “There is something wrong with me,” “I’m not wanted,” “I don’t matter,” “I’m all alone.” Sound familiar? it makes sense that you will create relationships that will mirror these misinterpretations of reality - as a way of bringing your awareness to the fact that you are trying to live a lie.

The basic truth is, You are love.

If you reject this truth, there is no way someone else can step in to give you the love that you think is missing in your life.

Robert Holden goes on to say, “You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the future.”

We will explore these truths, the blocks you’ve created to your awareness of your “eternal loveliness.” You will come away with practices and ways of being with yourself that will set you free to live and love wholeheartedly again.

You can choose to love yourself again, no matter what.

We will also continue the work done in our previous workshops with the energy of forgiveness through continuing to open your heart to yourself, your loved ones, and your ex, all in service to your freedom. Freedom is the place where you can be the creator of your open-hearted life. It’s also the place where you can be open and receptive to finding love again.

The day provides significant opportunities for you to:

  • learn how to let love lead the way to a life of fulfillment, joy, and creativity

  • experience healing of the pain of self-rejection and separation

  • be introduced to new perspectives to shift your thinking

  • be coached through your fears and limiting beliefs

  • let go of the old story of the past and become the author of your new one

  • connect with others going through similar experiences

  • gain insights and skills that will last a lifetime

You’ll be encouraged to establish new self-loving practices that will move you forward into your new life – wholeheartedly living and loving again. We’ll also have fun in the process. You’ll become part of a community that is committed to helping each other through this difficult time.

NOTE: Space is limited to 20 participants.

Living an Open-Hearted Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

Saturday, April 13, 2019

One Day Intensive: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

Withrow Nature Preserve

7075 5 Mile Road, Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Requirements

  • Attendance for the entire day – full participation during specified hours of workshop

  • Willingness to authentically share yourself in the sacred and safe space of the workshop

  • Readiness to look at and take responsibility for the ways you have contributed to the end of your relationship, extend compassion to yourself and everyone involved, and let go of blame and self-victimization

  • Willingness to be let go of the old story of the past, to be uncomfortable, to stretch, to grow

Carrie Doubts, M.A., PCC

Certified Transformational Coach

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Carrie Doubts supports people who are dealing with difficult relationships, breakups, and divorces to go through the painful, yet necessary steps for rebuilding their lives after their loss. Her passion is helping men and women move beyond the drama and trauma of the ending of a significant relationship and into creating new lives and new dreams for themselves and their families.

Carrie’s journey to do this work began when her marriage of 13 years ended in divorce. Like many of you, she found it difficult to “get over it” and “just move on.” Carrie was in excruciating pain and felt like a complete failure. She also knew that she needed to learn from this experience so that she could avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Carrie felt compelled to create something meaningful and beautiful out of this pain, so she immersed herself in self-development and personal growth.

Carrie went back to school and earned a Master of Arts in Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from the University of Santa Monica. After studying to be a Psychologist (and deciding that this was not the career for her) she earned her professional coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). She is also a Certified Grief Counselor by the American Academy of Grief Counseling. Carrie holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with International Coach Federation (ICF).

Carrie is dedicated to empowering, guiding, and supporting men and women in making choices throughout the process of completing their relationships that honor their values, their families, and the loving that was once a pivotal part of their lives.

“The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness.”

~Rachel Naomi Remen

Divorce is one of the most painful experiences you will face in life. Let this divorce be your last. Let it be the gateway to a healthier and happier relationship WITH YOURSELF first and foremost.

Living an Open-Hearted Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

Saturday, April 13, 2019

One Day Intensive: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

Withrow Nature Preserve

7075 5 Mile Road, Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Copyright © 2019 Life’s Next Chapter Coaching

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Rebuilding Your Life After Loss: An 8-Week Class at The Hive
Mar
5
to Apr 23

Rebuilding Your Life After Loss: An 8-Week Class at The Hive

There are few experiences in life with the ability to shake your faith in yourself, the world, and everything you thought you knew to be true like losing a spouse or life partner. You suddenly become a "me" instead of a "we," experiencing emotions like sadness, loneliness, anger, grief, and an anxious uncertainty about what the future now holds. While this is potentially the most painful time of your life, you can create something beautiful and meaningful out of this experience. This course supports you to do that.

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Listening to Your Heart: Creating Your Life After Divorce – a One-Day Workshop
Feb
2
10:00 AM10:00

Listening to Your Heart: Creating Your Life After Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

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A highly experiential, transformational workshop for people going through the heartbreak of separation and divorce.

RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER TO Saturday, February 2, 2019

“When you are going through a divorce, you enter into a space in your life where all kinds of things are going to occur. The tension you feel inside of this space is an opportunity. It’s like having emotional vertigo, which is a necessary component for making big shifts and changes in your life. It doesn’t look like an opportunity at first. You just want the hurting to stop and for others to be reasonable. That’s not happening. What IS happening is a massive opening into a world of new possibilities.”

~Trace Hobson

Did you lose yourself in your marriage?

Now that it’s over, are you left feeling less sure of yourself, less confident in your life decisions, and afraid to move forward for fear of making another “mistake”?

When you decided to marry, you took a leap of faith that your love would last forever, that it would see you through thick and thin, sickness, health, prosperity, and financial stress, good times and bad. As you said “I do,” you trusted your heart because it felt “right” to enter into this committed partnership.

Now that you are in the process of completing your marriage through divorce, it’s common to enter into doubt about why you married in the first place. Not only do you doubt your decision, you doubt your ability to make good decisions when it comes to love and partnership.

Here’s what you may be telling yourself as you are trying to put your life back together:

I can’t trust my heart - it got me in this mess in the first place.

While it may feel like this is your truth, we will take a look at how you have made decisions in the past - often from fear-based thinking. If you create your new life post-divorce from a place of hurt, anger, fear, it’s likely that you will be living in a default future that is not of your choosing.

We will take another approach - in this workshop, you will learn about the 3 Intelligences and how to align your head, heart, and body to make clear choices that create a future based on YOUR vision, YOUR values, and YOUR heartfelt desires. You’ll learn to listen to your heart - that wise inner voice that you DO have - and let it lead you into a life of love and creativity.

We will explore how to live in the land of possibility instead of creating negative future fantasies that disempower you.

We will also continue the work done in our first workshop with the energy of forgiveness through continuing to open your heart to yourself, your loved ones, and your ex, all in service to your freedom. Freedom is the place where you can be the creator of your new life. It’s also the place where you can be open and receptive to finding love again.

You CAN harness the energy of this transition to create a transformational opportunity for you and your family.

The day provides significant opportunities for you to:

  • Learn who you are and what you want to create for your new life on the other side of your divorce

  • be introduced to new perspectives to shift your thinking

  • be coached through your fears and limiting beliefs

  • let go of the old story of the past and become the author of your new one

  • connect with others going through similar experiences

  • gain insights and skills that will last a lifetime

You’ll be encouraged to set new goals that will move you forward into your new life – wholeheartedly living and loving again. We’ll also have fun in the process. You’ll become part of a community that is committed to helping each other through this difficult time.

NOTE: Space is limited to 20 participants.

Listening to Your Heart: Creating Your Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

Saturday, February 2, 2019

One Day Intensive: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

Withrow Nature Preserve

7075 5 Mile Road, Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Requirements

  • Attendance for the entire day – full participation during specified hours of workshop

  • Willingness to authentically share yourself in the sacred and safe space of the workshop

  • Readiness to look at and take responsibility for the ways you have contributed to the end of your relationship, extend compassion to yourself and everyone involved, and let go of blame and self-victimization

  • Willingness to be let go of the old story of the past, to be uncomfortable, to stretch, to grow

Carrie Doubts, M.A., PCC

Certified Transformational Coach

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Carrie Doubts supports people who are dealing with difficult relationships, breakups, and divorces to go through the painful, yet necessary steps for rebuilding their lives after their loss. Her passion is helping men and women move beyond the drama and trauma of the ending of a significant relationship and into creating new lives and new dreams for themselves and their families.

Carrie’s journey to do this work began when her marriage of 13 years ended in divorce. Like many of you, she found it difficult to “get over it” and “just move on.” Carrie was in excruciating pain and felt like a complete failure. She also knew that she needed to learn from this experience so that she could avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Carrie felt compelled to create something meaningful and beautiful out of this pain, so she immersed herself in self-development and personal growth.

Carrie went back to school and earned a Master of Arts in Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from the University of Santa Monica. After studying to be a Psychologist (and deciding that this was not the career for her) she earned her professional coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). She is also a Certified Grief Counselor by the American Academy of Grief Counseling. Carrie holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with International Coach Federation (ICF).

Carrie is dedicated to empowering, guiding, and supporting men and women in making choices throughout the process of completing their relationships that honor their values, their families, and the loving that was once a pivotal part of their lives.

“The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness.”

~Rachel Naomi Remen

Divorce is one of the most painful experiences you will face in life. Let this divorce be your last. Let it be the gateway to a healthier and happier relationship WITH YOURSELF first and foremost.

Listening to Your Heart: Creating Your Life After Your Divorce – a One-Day Workshop

Saturday, February 2, 2019

One Day Intensive: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

Withrow Nature Preserve

7075 5 Mile Road, Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Copyright © 2018 Life’s Next Chapter Coaching

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Opening Your Heart: Getting Past the Pain of your Divorce – A Full-Day Workshop
Nov
10
10:30 AM10:30

Opening Your Heart: Getting Past the Pain of your Divorce – A Full-Day Workshop

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A highly experiential, transformational workshop for people going through the heartbreak of separation and divorce.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

“Every relationship only has a moment more to complete itself…Most relationships disappear like Narcissus into the denser realms of consciousness. Indeed, even death cannot break a bond like the disunion of hearts. The loss of a desired relationship through divorce, because it has an added element of abandonment, can be yet more painful that a loss through death…Death [of a loved one] breaks the human heart, but abandonment shreds it.”

~Stephen Levine

  • Has your heart been run through the shredder as you go through your painful breakup, separation, and/or divorce? 
  • Are you unsure of who you are, what you want, feeling stuck in limbo between what has ended and what is yet to begin? 
  • Has your bleeding heart been left for dead in the driveway of your home as your ex speeds off towards his/her new life without you? 
  • Do you fear that you will become bitter and close your heart in reaction to being hurt? 
  • Are you certain, yet afraid, that you will never love again and will be destined to live the rest of your life in loneliness and despair?

Reflecting on my own experience of my divorce 20 years ago, one thing is for certain. It was absolute hell. And, I managed to get through it. My divorce was a catalyst for me to begin on a path of self-development, healing, and growth that ultimately led to a transformation for me both personally and professionally.

And, I went through it mostly on my own. I wish I had had the kind of support that is offered at this workshop during that heart-wrenching time.

The sad truth is that it’s really challenging to find the right kind of support when you are in the process of dismantling your marriage, your family core, your life. Friends who you thought would be there aren't. Family is in upheaval and not necessarily available to you due to their own pain. Best friends – who are usually amazing – will lose their capacity for unconditional acceptance of where you are in time. People judge you. They don’t understand. 

On their own, the sad, depressed and lost divorcing person will often flounder. And there seems to be a magic that happens when two or more divorcing people get together in community to meet and express their grief and loss, share their stories, and support one another in the journey.

If you are struggling with the emotional roller coaster of divorce, this one-day workshop is an opportunity to connect with other people who are going through what you are experiencing AND to learn how to move beyond whatever is having you feeling stuck, hurt, angry, etc. 

You don't have to do it alone.

The day provides significant opportunities for you to:

  • be heard, validated, and accepted just as you are
  • be introduced to new perspectives to shift your thinking
  • be coached through your fears and limiting beliefs
  • let go of the old story of the past and become the author of your new one
  • connect with others going through similar experiences
  • gain insights and skills that will last a lifetime

You’ll be encouraged to set new goals that will move you forward into your new life – wholeheartedly living and loving again. We’ll also have fun in the process. You’ll become part of a community that is committed to helping each other through this difficult time.

Opening Your Heart: Getting Past the Pain of your Divorce –

a Full-Day Workshop

Saturday, November 10, 2018

One Day Intensive: 10:30 am – 5:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

WITHROW NATURE PRESERVE - HIGHWOOD LODGE

7075 5 Mile Rd. Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Requirements

  • Attendance for the entire day – full participation during specified hours of workshop
  • Willingness to authentically share yourself in the sacred and safe space of the workshop
  • Readiness to look at and take responsibility for the ways you have contributed to the end of your relationship, extend compassion to yourself and everyone involved, and let go of blame and self-victimization
  • Willingness to be let go of the old story of the past, to be uncomfortable, to stretch, to grow

Carrie Doubts, M.A., PCC

Certified Transformational Coach

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Carrie Doubts supports people who are dealing with difficult relationships, breakups, and divorces to go through the painful, yet necessary steps for rebuilding their lives after their loss. Her passion is helping men and women move beyond the drama and trauma of the ending of a significant relationship and into creating new lives and new dreams for themselves and their families.

Carrie’s journey to do this work began when her marriage of 13 years ended in divorce. Like many of you, she found it difficult to “get over it” and “just move on.” Carrie was in excruciating pain and felt like a complete failure. She also knew that she needed to learn from this experience so that she could avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future. Carrie felt compelled to create something meaningful and beautiful out of this pain, so she immersed herself in self-development and personal growth.

Carrie went back to school and earned a Master of Arts in Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from the University of Santa Monica. After studying to be a Psychologist (and deciding that this was not the career for her) she earned her professional coaching certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). She is also a Certified Grief Counselor by the American Academy of Grief Counseling. Carrie holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with International Coach Federation (ICF).

Carrie is dedicated to empowering, guiding, and supporting men and women in making choices throughout the process of completing their relationships that honor their values, their families, and the loving that was once a pivotal part of their lives.

“The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships: the strength of touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness.”

~Rachel Naomi Remen

Divorce is one of the most painful experiences you will face in life. Let this divorce be your last. Let it be the gateway to a healthier and happier relationship WITH YOURSELF first and foremost.

Opening Your Heart: Getting Past the Pain of your Divorce – a Full-Day Workshop

Saturday, November 10, 2018

One Day Intensive: 10:30 am – 5:00 pm

Cost: $147

Includes a light lunch

WITHROW NATURE PRESERVE - HIGHWOOD LODGE

7075 5 Mile Rd. Anderson Township, OH 45230

Questions? Email carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com or call (513) 860-0448

Copyright © 2018 Life’s Next Chapter Coaching

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The Whole Heart - A Three-Month Divorce Coaching Program
Apr
5
to Apr 12

The Whole Heart - A Three-Month Divorce Coaching Program

Going through a divorce, what kind of support do you really need? Hint: Sympathy can only get you so far on the transformational journey you are navigating.

We get it. When you have your friends telling you it’s time to “move on” after your divorce, you long for a compassionate presence to accept you the way you are. Just being able to talk to someone and have him/her really listen to you, without needing you to be “better” or “fixed” seems impossible. So you suck it up and say “I’m fine” when people ask you how you are doing. You’ve learned they don’t want to hear about how you are really feeling. Finding people who sympathize with you when you are in the pit of despair is great. And, this by itself won’t get you out of the pit. Chances are, people who are overly sympathetic will climb down in there with you so you won’t be alone. Then there are two of you down in there. This is not helping. Here’s what this group is about. There is compassion, acceptance, and understanding to be found here. And, you’ll learn new skills to help yourself get out of the pit of despair and start walking towards your better future. You’ll learn what’s really true and whole about you and start to draw on your own inner strengths 2 and resources as you climb upward.

When you feel that your heart has been broken by this divorce – and the losses that come with it – through participating in this program, you will discover your way back to wholeheartedly participating in your life again. Your heart remembers how to be whole and it will heal. We will start the process by asking you powerful questions - some that are very different from the kinds of questions you are used to hearing. And you’ll hear yourself answering them from a very different place inside that you are used to accessing: your Authentic Self. You’ll be held in a very safe space to do this kind of deep exploration into the transformational opportunity that divorce has presented to you and to your family. We believe that the way to heal is to walk into and through the pain, transforming it into strength through the presence of love.

Click on the Video Below to Discover
What's Possible for You When You
Step On the Path to Whole-Heartedness

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Mar
22
7:00 PM19:00

The Whole Heart - Transformational Presence Through Divorce Forum

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When going through a divorce, what kind of support do you really need? Hint: Sympathy can only get you so far on the transformational journey you are navigating.

Join me, Carrie Doubts MA, PCC, Transformational Life Coach and Trace Hobson, CTPC, Transformational Leadership Coach for this interactive forum to discuss your divorce and how it may actually be serving you to help you learn and grow.

This meeting is a free introduction to The Whole Heart: A Three-Month Divorce Coaching Program offered by Carrie Doubts and Trace Hobson. This group is for people who are wanting support in walking through their divorce with the intention to use it as a Transformational Opportunity.

What:   Being Whole Hearted While Walking Through Divorce
When:  March 8, 2018, 7:00 pm EST
Where: Online via Zoom 

Click here to register.

We're going to create a space where we listen deeply to what your heart is saying to you about its wholeness and a heart-centered life that reflects loving, strength, and resilience.

We're also going to share details about The Whole Heart Divorce Coaching Group that will be starting on April 5, 2018. This Three-month group is a unique program designed to help you navigate through your divorce by teaching you new skills and approaches to use this experience as a path to a healthier, happier next chapter of your life.

Join us!

Divorce is one of the most painful experiences you will face in life. Let this divorce be your last. Let it be the gateway to a healthier and happier relationship WITH YOURSELF, first and foremost.

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Transformational Conversation with Grief – A Retreat for Healing and Wholeness
Jan
2
to Jan 6

Transformational Conversation with Grief – A Retreat for Healing and Wholeness

Transformational Conversation with Grief – A Retreat for Healing and Wholeness

With Kim Adams, Carrie Doubts, Karen Montealegre & Gabriella van Rooij  

A five-day highly experiential, transformational retreat for people going through the heartbreak and grief of losing a loved one.

Sunday, June 3 – Thursday, June 7, 2018

Hours: 

Sunday 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm 

Monday-Wednesday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm 

Thursday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm 

Location: Kantara Retreat Center near San Jose, Costa Rica

“You may not be able to see it now, however, after a loss, you will rebuild yourself. You have been given the opportunity to create yourself anew. Who will you be now?”    ~David Kessler 

  • Are you feeling an emptiness in your heart after your great loss?
  • Do you reach outside yourself for ways to cope with your grief and loss?
  • Have you felt stuck in moving forward in your life because you have forgotten who you are and what you want in life? 
  • Do you want to move forward back into the world with purpose?
  • Are you ready to really live again, but don’t know how? 

This is a retreat from your ordinary world and coping with your grief into a healing space where it’s safe to meet, process, and heal your pain. 

You will be introduced to the principles and practices of Transformational Presence – an approach that assists you to drop below the surface of your thoughts and the disturbance in your emotions and get to the core of who you truly are – your essential beingness. We will explore ways of letting go of the pain of the past, healing your hurting heart, and stepping forward into your new life – one of purpose, passion, and power. 

Slow down and have a conversation with your grief – in a safe space

Here’s what’s available to you in this transformational five-day retreat: 

  • Being guided through transformational exercises 
  • Experiential work with horses
  • Walking the Labyrinth
  • Creative Expression - Art
  • Receiving healing body work
  • Walking and playing in nature
  • Being in an exquisite natural setting
  • Bathing yourself in silence
  • Being embraced by a loving community
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 Chasing the Unicorn of Work/Life Balance Live Free Workshop
Jul
8
9:30 AM09:30

Chasing the Unicorn of Work/Life Balance Live Free Workshop

  • Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Huenefeld Tower Room (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
Chasing the Unicorn of Work/Life Balance

I'm looking at my calendar, my to do list, and that familiar feeling is rising up from my chest, grabbing me by the throat, and paralyzingly me with fear. "I've got to get a better handle on all this," I tell myself, feeling completely overwhelmed. "How am I going to get it all done?" Can you see yourself in that scenario?

Confession time: I usually end up sacrificing the self-care routines, yoga, meditation, journalling, etc. Yep, all that stuff I tell my clients they need to make time for. So, not only am I feeling overwhelmed, but there's also judgment of myself as not "walking my talk.”

It’s all about choice. That means it’s an inside job – making self-honoring choices and then having the courage to stand in those choices, no matter what the outside world demands.

I will be hosting a half-day workshop for women only that is dedicated to giving up the idea that we can stalk, hunt, capture, and tame the mythical beast of Work/Life Balance. Together, we’ll explore, discover, take a deep dive into YOU and see what’s underneath the surface of this need to be in a frenzy of doing. You’ll also learn how to:

  • Embrace the power of slowing down, when you think you need so speed up
  • Stop buying into the idea that you have to do everything yourself
  • Get comfortable saying “No” to what you don’t want so you can say “Yes” to what you do want

Space is limited to 40 participants. To hold your space for this special day, send me an email at carrie@lifesnextchaptercoaching.com, with "Workshop RSVP" in the subject.

Cost is FREE!

Let’s get this unrealistic expectation about Work/Life Balance handled.

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Nov
11
7:00 PM19:00

Journey Beyond Divorce Group: Survival Series

Life's Next Chapter Coaching has joined forces with Journey Beyond Divorce, a highly skilled and compassionate team of Certified Life Coaches specializing in Relationship and Divorce coaching. We will be offering support for people who are navigating the storm of divorce.

Are you feeling blindsided by your spouse’s decision to leave?  Have you finally chosen to divorce but struggling with your choice and the fear of the future?

  • Are you deep in pain & devastation?
  • Feeling hopeless?
  • Bitter and resentful?
  • Struggling with confusion and fear?
  • Frustrated by your inability to focus?

…Then this divorce support group is for you.

Whether you are struggling through the legal process or stuck post-divorce, unsure of how to move forward this four week divorce support program is designed to throw you a lifeline; to pull you from the choppy waters of anger, bitterness and upset and to help you clear the emotional fog, begin making good decisions and experience a sense of calm.

Survival Series Divorce Support Group

The opportunity to reinvent yourself during divorce is a remarkable one, even if at first it is a hellish experience.  Divorce is a challenging journey on many levels. The many new responsibilities, decisions, and actions you are called upon to take can be overwhelming.  It's difficult to envision a future when you feel like you are drowning in the present. Yet, there is possibility for a great and positive change through the 'adventure' of divorce, regardless of how daunting and scary it seems. 

Our group is designed to support men and women on exactly this adventure and at all stages of process. We are offering a series of group gatherings called The Survival Series, launching this October in the Cincinnati area.

DATES AND TOPICS

Session #1 on Wednesday, October 7:  Surviving the Suck of Divorce & Turning Pain to Gain

Session #2 on Wednesday, October 28: Acknowledging Your Choices & Personal Responsibility

Session #3 on Wednesday, November 11:  The Art of Detachment: Letting Go of Judgement

Session #4 on Wednesday, December 2:  Learning to Reframe: Adjusting Your Perspective

Costs: $40 per meeting ($140 for the series of 4)

To register for these events, click here.

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Jan
6
to Sep 30

Enrolling Now: 2015 Rebuilding Your Life After Loss Program

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Registration is now open for my nine-month Program, Rebuilding Your Life After Loss, which begins on January 6, 2015. 

In this transformational nine-month program, you will learn how to let go of the pain of grief, adapt to your losses, connect with your new life's purpose, and co-create your life's next chapter. At the completion of the program, you will come away with greater levels of peace and acceptance and a clear vision of what you want, why it is important to you, and direction and support for achieving it.

Who is this program for? Women who have lost a spouse or partner through death or divorce and are struggling to embrace their lives as a "me" after being a "we" for so long.

In order to create and maintain an intimate feeling to our group, enrollment will be limited to only 12 women.

Click here to find out more details about the program. On this page you will find links to the program brochure, which includes information about costs and the program schedule. You can also listen to a one-hour Tele-Seminar to get a sense of what it might be like to work with me as your program leader and coach.

When you decide you are ready to enroll, click here to start the process by requesting a complementary Rebuilding Your Life After Loss discovery session. For those who qualify, there are scholarships available so questions of affordability need not be a barrier to your participation.

Space is limited. Isn't it time that you invested in your self to reconnect with your heart, reclaim your power, and realign with your soul to create your life's next chapter? Come join us as we move forward together. You don't have to go through grief alone. Make 2015 the year you stop surviving and start thriving again.

Love and blessings on your journey,

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Free Tele-Class: Rebuilding Your Life After Loss
Dec
6
5:00 PM17:00

Free Tele-Class: Rebuilding Your Life After Loss

I'm excited to announce that I will be hosting a one-hour Tele-class on Saturday, December 6, 2014 from 5:00-6:00 pm e.s.t.

This call is for women who have lost a spouse or partner through death or divorce and are struggling to find their "me" after being a "we" for so many years.

Join me for this uplifting call as I provide insights about grief and loss that I've learned in over 20 years of working in the fields of psychology, spirituality, education, grief counseling, and grief and transition coaching. You will learn about:

  • Some myths about grieving and why they should be discarded
  • The tasks of mourning and why completing them is so vitally important
  • How pain can be a powerful motivator and catalyst for positive change
  • Information about my transformational nine-month Program, Rebuilding Your Life After Loss

I will also guide you through an exercise designed for boosting energy and providing direction in an area in your life where you might be feeling stuck.

If you are looking for a safe place to receive loving support from an innovator in the field of grief coaching, attending this information-packed tele-class is your first step.

To register for the call, click here.

I look forward to connecting with you on December 6th.

I will also be opening registration for my nine-month Program, Rebuilding Your Life After Loss, which begins on January 6, 2015. To find out more about this program, click here to download the brochure.

If you'd like to contact me directly to schedule a complimentary Rebuilding Your Life After Loss Discovery Session, click here and fill in your contact information.

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