This balancing act can be challenging, but it’s essential for creating a positive environment for your children and yourself.
Start by identifying which traditions hold special meaning for your family.
Communicate with your co-parent about ways to keep these traditions alive, whether it’s celebrating holidays in a familiar way or incorporating new activities that reflect your evolving family dynamic.
Mediation can be a valuable tool in this process.
It really fosters open communication, allowing both parents to express their desires and concerns while collaboratively finding solutions that work for everyone.
As a divorce mediator and family law lawyer, I guide families in navigating these discussions, helping you create a harmonious blend of old and new traditions.
Ready to explore how mediation can help you and your family embrace change while honoring the past?
Let’s connect and create a plan as the holidays are quickly approaching!
Reach out to me today: 587-956-9300.
Beryl McNeill is a Calgary divorce lawyer who strongly believes mutual respect and understanding go a long way toward resolving family law matters. As a Registered Collaborative Law practitioner in Calgary, she has dedicated her firm to amicable, cooperative negotiation as a means for settling divorces. Furthermore, throughout her law career, Beryl has seen the costs of adversarial negotiations, both financial and emotional. In emphasizing the collaborative approach, Beryl offers her clients a more efficient model that preserves personal and monetary assets alike.
More and more individuals are attracted to resolving their family law matters in a civil, respectful way. Therefore, they come to Beryl from many walks of life—as professionals in the oil and gas industry and their spouses, business owners, and working spouses with children. Clients say that even after a single consultation with Beryl they feel less stressed and more clear about the way forward.
Beryl understands the often fearful, emotional early stages of divorce. Incorporating skills developed from her training as a life coach, Beryl helps clients move beyond their stress response to more logical, creative thinking. Once there, she works with clients to discover what’s truly important to them in attaining divorce. Furthermore, she encourages clients to picture what a successful settlement would look like a year or more down the road as a means of focusing on their goals. By educating and empowering clients, Beryl seeks to transform the way they resolve family disputes—in a more constructive, intelligent and amicable way than would be possible otherwise.
Finally, Beryl is very active with the Family Bar and the Collaborative Law Community. Her involvement provides her clients with the assurance that she has her finger on the pulse of Family Law in Alberta, offering them a distinct advantage in their quest for equity and civility.