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ONLINE SERVICES AVAILABLE ACROSS ONTARIO Divorce can be complicated. And we want to help you make good choices.

The Common Sense Report offers thoughts and insights into making better choices in life. We believe that when you are well-informed, prepared and supported, you can create new beginnings everyday. Emotions can run high when things are not running smoothly. There are times when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Your choices and actions will make all the difference in the world.

10/17/2026

Home is the place where our nervous system learns whether the world is safe.

For some, home felt like peace.
For others, home felt like walking on eggshells, chaos, unpredictability, or never quite knowing if they belonged.

Perhaps that's why we choose the people we choose.

Not because they're always healthy.
But because, in ways we don't always understand, they remind us of home.

The beautiful news is that our story doesn't have to end there.

Healing isn't about pretending the past never happened.

It's about becoming intentional.
It's about building the kind of home, within ourselves and with the people we love, that we wish we had inherited.

Because the greatest gift we can leave our children isn't a bigger house.
It's a safer home.

10/15/2026

So much for today's post.

Sometimes you gave to just stop and enjoy the blessings!😁💞

10/14/2026

Considering Divorce? Not Sure Where to Start?

Join me for a FREE online masterclass designed for people who are considering ending their marriage but haven't started the divorce process.
Thursday, October 15th at 12 NOON (Ontario Time)

We'll discuss:

How to work through the decision to STAY or GO.

Five important things you need to know about divorce in Ontario.

What the FIRST STEPS look like if you decide to move forward.

Get the information, guidance, and clarity you need to understand your options.

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10/13/2026

Some battles are lost the moment we agree to fight them.

A word is thrown.

We pick it up.

An accusation is laid at our feet.

We stoop to answer it.

And before long, we are standing in a place beneath us...

trying to prove our goodness to someone who has already chosen not to see it.

There is an old wisdom in restraint.

Not cowardice.

Not silence born of fear.

Discernment.

“You are not required to attend every argument you are invited to.”

Some fires are not ours to feed.

Some doors are not ours to open.

And sometimes peace begins when we leave another person alone...

with the quarrel they came looking for.

10/10/2026

Most arguments aren’t about the comment that was said.

They’re about the part of us that got exposed in the moment.
When your nervous system spikes, it’s not weakness.

It’s information.

A sign that something deeper is being touched… something old, familiar, and still unresolved.
You don’t have to fear your triggers.

You just have to stop ignoring them.
Because the more willing you are to look at what’s happening in you,

the less power your triggers have to sabotage your marriage from underneath.
Slow down.

Notice the dysregulation.

Let it tell you the truth you’ve been avoiding.
Healing starts there.

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