Daily Meditations for Healing from Divorce ─ Discovering the New You

When you divorce or separate from a life partner, you may find yourself facing a change in every aspect your life. Parenting, family relationships, finances, social networks, personal belongings, a residence, job performanceall effect how your entire personal world is altered by divorce. These changes may also bring emotional pain. After all, you are experiencing the death of a relationship.” Family law attorney Marlene Pontrelli understands the road you’re traveling. She has guided hundreds of individuals through the maze of divorce. After nearly thirty years of practice, she not only understands the legal aspects of divorce, but she also understands the emotional discomfort that may accompany divorce. Now, culmination of her experience and insights can be found in this book of daily meditations; it contains inspiring, uplifting advice that will comfort and help you learn to find a new normal,” as you move through the divorce process and ultimately discover exciting, new possibilities for your life.

Marlene A. Pontrelli is a member of the Dickinson Wright, PLLC and a certified specialist in family law. Her practice focuses on all aspects of family law including dissolution of marriage, legal separation, post-dissolution modifications, paternity, and children’s issues. She has been in practice for over thirty years. She is a member of the State Bar’s Family Law Practice and Procedure Committee and is a judge pro tem for the Superior Court of Maricopa County in family law. Ms. Pontrelli is an adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University Law School, where she teaches a class on family law. In 2002 she was trained in nullity of marriages through the Diocese of Phoenix and obtained her life coaching certificate through the Professional Coaching Institute in 2005. She has extensive trial and appellate experience including appearing before the Arizona Court of Appeals, Arizona Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has written several textbooks, and is frequent lecturer in the area of family law. She has conducted numerous workshops and seminars throughout the country on time management and balancing work and personal life. Marlene Pontrelli may be reached through the firm website at www.dickinsonwright.com or at the firm’s Phoenix office at 602-285-5000.