GODSPEED* with Learning Stories

  People always ask me... what’s the best way to overcome alienation in the court system?  Here's my answer: In the world of parental alienation, it's easy to get caught up in the idea that the only way to overcome alienation is to prove the cause of alienation.   However, we forget that there is another option that is actually more effective, and more honest. Lawyers are paid to argue. Since the causes of things are usually invisible, arguing about the cause of alienation is the perfect way for lawyers to get paid. It never has to end, and nobody will be the wiser.  Child psychological abuse is the term used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders to describe the behavior commonly associated with parental alienation. Any competent clinical psychologist can describe the effects of child psychological abuse, but they can only guess about the cause.  Without measuring the results of court intervention in behavioral terms, alienation beh...

Exchanging marriage vows on Danish Television after 9/11. Talking about the Power of Love. We made a family together. We conceived and gave birth to three human beings, and let me tell you a lot changed in those 11 years after 9/11, but the one thing that did not change was that feeling terrorized and alienated is no reason to give up on family, prevents us from fighting the war on terror is where it matters most, in our own hearts. Alienation is a complex issue that can leave a person feeling lost and alone. For years, I struggled to navigate the legal and therapeutic systems to keep father time consistent and available to my children throughout each step of the processes that were supposed to help my family. I spent countless hours and dollars following the advice of lawyers and therapists, only to find their solutions were not working. They weren’t solutions actually, they were focused on the problems of my family instead of our identity, and I was too. But I was following their lea...