You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 168, How to Co-Parent with an ex.

Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time.

I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy.

Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy.

Hello, my beautiful brave hearts.

How is everyone doing?

I have an amazing guest here today, Crystal.

She is going to talk to us all about parenting

while you're going through a divorce or a breakup. I know many of you have brought this up.

We did an entire week-long kind of event where we talked about your kids and how to help

your kids or your teenagers through the divorce slash breakup. But what I thought would be

really useful is to look at the parenting component and how do you interact? How can you best

co-parent even when your ex might not be as involved or your ex might not be, you know,

following your instructions, things like that. So Crystal is an expert in this area.

She will be helping us walk through all of this. And I have some really good questions from

some of my Braveheart specifically that they wanted to get answered here. So Crystal,

thank you so much for coming. Please talk to us. Tell us who you are, what you do, all of the things.

Hey, thank you. Thank you. Okay. So first of all, I have to say, even if you're not

a parent, I guarantee you will get something from this episode because I'm going to talk about

this in a little bit, but I teach a lot about parenting in a different way than what we were

parented. And in order to do that, we have to reparent or self-mother ourselves. And so

that process can start at any point in time. In fact, I think it's a lot better to do it even

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