Most will experience a barrage of emotions and for parents with children still in the home, this can cause parents to make POOR DECISIONS. 

When your head is in a spin, when you are busy protecting  your bleeding heart, wondering how all this will  work, worrying about your finances, feeling guilty, trying to calm the acting out  insecure kids, etc. etc., you will tend to base your decisions on reaction rather than from the standpoint of what is inside of your wonderful "parent self."

I have written information specifically for parents in the crisis of divorce. I urge you to invest in it and read it. I promise it will put you back in touch with the real loving parent you actually are, rather than the wounded or guilty person you are feeling you are at this moment. It will help you jump quickly back into your parental role. It will help you do do what is best for your children immediately and create healthy parental relationships for the rest of your lives together.

This information is not only for parents with emotions are all over the place, but also for any co-parent, at any stage, living apart from their child's other parent.

-For Parents contemplating Divorce -For parents going though a divorce. -For Co-parents at any stage after divorce. Enter here

A NOTE
To Grandparents
When your daughter or your sons marriage broke and divorce occurred it altered the natural flow of your family. It is done. Now you are left with coping with the change and the adjustment of the change.
The first thing on your agenda will be toContinued here

A NOTE
To Adult Children of Divorced Parents
From twelve years old to sixty-five children of divorce feel a sadness over the death of their intact family and suddenly they are thrown into changes  Continue here

Frequently Asked Questions about Lifeline Recovery Program

Talking out what is going on with you will help you to sort out your thoughts, start healing the wounds of your losses, and when you can dump some of your frustrations and anger energy by talking, sarcasm, and joking it is also helpful to your body. 
Vent ..but vent for health, not destruction!  Read more on the The Necessity of Support as you go through emotional and legal divorce.

When drinking or drugs or addictions came before you, the maintenance of your marriage relationship or the kids... 
Maybe the crazy inappropriate behavior's practiced by yourself or your spouse was the reason your marriage collapsed. Did you or your spouse ever use drugs, alcohol or any mood altering substance to deal or bury the problems? Were addictions driving you or your spouses' life? 
It never hurts to investigate and learn about the effects of addictions, dependencies, and obsessions upon all the people living within the environment where these were practiced. 

If  you lived within such an environment you will have been affected whether you wanted it or not whether you are aware of it or not. For you...there is added recovery work to be done. For if you do not, you will quickly attract the exact same realationship(s) in your life.. 

More here

If during your marriage alcohol was frequently consumed or it was secretly ingested ...see this forum here

Most asked questions  After Divorce
How to get over a divorce? 
How is life after Divorce? 
How are others dealing with divorce?
How are others coping with divorce? 
Is there some kind of divorce healing?
Can Divorce wounds be healed?
Does a person ever find love after  divorce?
How is life for men after divorce? 
How is life for women after divorce?

And something for those who:
-Have been divorced for many years
-Adult Children of divorce
-Want to stop the pain.
-Want to understanding the dynamics and emotions of divorce 
-Recovery from the after effects of divorce.
  Answers are here.

The extreme stress of divorce lowers your immune system..
Colds and any other disease like to invade depressed immune systems... Be on the alert and take charge of your good health! 

When you are experiencing a broken marriage you will naturally be under a great deal of stress. Usually there has been years of trying to make the marriage work, trying to fix it the best way you knew how and this  leaves you feeling exhausted and defeated. Now experiencing a barrage of thoughts and feelings, such as feeling  powerless over trying to control something that was beyond your control,  feeling like a failure because you couldn't fix it, feeling there must have been something else you could have done to hold it together, feeling guilty because you broke the family unit, and  then there's the coping with the loss of everything connected with your  marriage and the "what other people think"..There is coping with upset, insecure children because they feel what is going on with their parents,  there is the constant fear of change and  how will you  make ends meet, there are moves to be made, assets to be divided. You are dealing with your anger, your former spouse is even  more angry than you are, communication between you two has gone down to extreme poor,  you are a mess emotionally, yet still trying to earn an income, nobody seems to really understand what you are going through, the kids are acting up..hec you are even acting up! 
You don't even have the old standby of sexual relief that kinda used to work..Now you are even stressed about having no sexual appetite. You are stressed and over stressed.

Stress is good in ones life...but this is way out and over the good!

Divorce is simply very stressful. Accept that! Once you have accepted that, then and only then can you start doing all you can to lower your stress as you go through the dissolution of your marriage and your emotional divorce. 
You cannot change the fact that the divorce is in process, but you can change how you deal with the process.

First the calmer mind will make better decision for yourself and your children.

Amongst all this turmoil, I suggest that you give yourself at least fifteen minutes to one hour for relaxation for your mind and body, everyday. It may sound stupid right now..but this simple natural exercise will help you through this period of  your life. 

Imagine that you are on the river of your life and this is simply a section of rapids that
you must go through to get to the other more tamer segments of your life. So...sit in your canoe, grab your oars and think how you will get through these rapids without losing your oars or spilling your canoe...  No need to drown!

Try to sit on a chair and ground yourself by feeling your feet on the floor, your hands on the chair and acknowledge that. 
Then, start concentrating on relaxing your toes, under your feet, the top of your feet, your ankles, the back of your legs the front of your legs, etceteras until you have done every part  of your external and internal body and have reached the top of your scalp. Once you have reached there, sit in "the relaxation" for at least five minute.

Here are more ways to relax your mind and body. 
Meditations For Health
I encourage you to do whatever you can to maintain a healthy immune system.

Note to women: Lumps in the breast often develop while in the process of divorce or when a detachment from children is extremely difficult to adjust to. Do breast self exams more often, do physical exercises, and eat healthy greens during these stressful times and dump all the junk foods with additives. Your immune system has enough to deal with without giving your immune system more toxins and those minute amounts of poisons to fight off also.

Divorce is an ideal opportunity to learn to love you...to honor your mind, your body and your spirit. It is an ideal opportunity to learn how to parent your self. Try not to waste this opportunity for it may never present itself with such ideal motivation and necessity again!