Episode 97: Co-parenting During the Holidays, During a Pandemic with Michelle Dempsey-Multack
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Doing the holidays and divorce — at the best of times — can be super complicated. Co-parenting during the holidays during a pandemic? What a shitshow, amiright? Well, it doesn't have to be. This week, Michelle Dempsey-Multack joins me to offer tips and advice on how to handle the holidays during this crazy time. Michelle is a writer, coach, Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®), and host of the Moms Moving On Podcast.
There is no guidebook for parenting during a pandemic. But through our conversation, we hope you find some insight, inspiration, and tips to help you move through the upcoming season with confidence and grace.
Show Highlights
- The shift in the divorce and co-parenting space and the role COVID-19 plays. (3:35)
- How to have an uncomfortable conversation that is non-threatening about making the holidays safe for your children. (8:49)
- Distinguish between the ex-partner who will balk about everything vs the ex-partner who is truthly concerned because they deem your actions as reckless. (12:06)
- Uncomfortable conversations lead to comfortable situations. (14:16)
- You can't tell COVID to go away because it would make divorce easier. But COVID is forcing new divorcees to slow down post-divorce. (15:33)
- Some tips on how to handle the holidays as co-parents, including how to share or split holidays. (24:48)
- Make your goal about you, moving on in a healthy way and doing what is best for your children. (34:57)
- Creating new holidays and traditions for yourself, post-divorce. (35:10)
Learn More About Michelle Dempsey:
Michelle Dempsey-Multack is a writer, coach, Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®) and host of the Moms Moving On Podcast. As a divorced, co-parenting, and remarried mother, nothing makes Michelle happier than being able to guide other women as they move on through the divorce process, and helping them turn their divorce lemons into lemonade - just like she did. A native New Yorker, Michelle now resides in Miami with her husband, Spencer, and each of their daughters, Bella and Jolie.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey everyone, it's Darlene here. Kate has asked me to do the intro for this week's episode. |
| 0:47.0 | And because she seems to be 2020's personal punching bag, Kate has contracted COVID-19. |
| 0:53.9 | She's sharing a lot about her journey on her personal |
| 0:56.4 | Facebook page and all of her posts are public, so feel free to follow her there, but please don't |
| 1:02.1 | send friend requests. Kate wants you all to know that she's doing okay. It's been a rough week, |
| 1:09.0 | but so far it seems she has a mild case, which still feels like a |
| 1:13.9 | terrible and long-lasting flu, but all things considered, it could be far worse. Kate's ex has |
| 1:20.5 | taken their son as she isolates, and so far none of her family has contracted the virus. And it's |
| 1:27.3 | pretty good timing then for this week's |
| 1:29.3 | episode. This week, Michelle Dempsey-Multak joins Kate Anthony to discuss how to handle the |
| 1:35.8 | upcoming holiday season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Michelle is a writer, coach, certified divorce |
| 1:43.6 | specialist, and host of the Moms Moving |
| 1:46.6 | On podcast. Now there is no guidebook for parenting during a pandemic. Kate hopes you find |
| 1:52.9 | insight, inspiration, and tips to help you move through the upcoming holiday season with |
| 1:59.5 | confidence and grace. |
| 2:01.4 | You can find Kate through her website at Kateanthony.com |
| 2:04.9 | and on Instagram looking for the divorce survival guide. |
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