The Michelle Dempsey

Author of Moms Moving On, Podcast Host. Co-Parenting/Divorce Coach // As seen in @usweekly @scarymommy @parents @huffpost @forbes

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

And that’s on feeling guilty for your divorce even when it made your life feel safer and more peaceful…

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

And that’s on feeling guilty for a divorce that only made your life more peaceful…

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Choosing freedom - over the security of what feels safe familiar - is one of be hardest yet bravest choices you’ll ever make.

HBD America, but also, it’s a good day to celebrate your own independence, too.

💥

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

HBD America but also it’s a good day to celebrate your own independence.

Look how far you’ve come from that moment where you thought it was all over & swore you’d never recover.

You choose freedom over the familiar. That’s worth celebrating, too.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

You can’t ask your children to carry the emotional weight of your adult problems and expect to have long-lasting, healthy relationship with them.

Because when they’re all grown up and mourning the childhood they didn’t get, they’ll realize who robbed them of it.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

An absolute bullsht headline, and yet further proof that women will forever be held to unfair standards after divorce.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

This Int’l Women’s Day, celebrate your daughters. Tell them you’re proud of them & love them without limits. Tell them there’s nothing they can do that’ll make you love them less.

Your daughter deserves the kind of kick-ass confidence that can only come from one place - you.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

If you want “growth” and “healing,” blaming others for your problems isn’t going to work. Deciding your pain is all someone else’s fault won’t help either.

If you want to grow, look within.
If you want to heal, do the work.

This part won’t come easy, but it WILL be worth it.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

And one day, you’ll see that the heartbreak you thought would destroy you, gave you the opportunity for so much better; because you always deserved that.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Roses are red, violets are blue,
if you’re sad about being single on Valentine’s Day, remember that you’re worth way more than cheap gas station roses after a fight with your toxic ex, boo.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Roses are red, violets are blue,
you’re worth way more than cheap gas station roses after a fight with your toxic ex, boo.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

A few morning reminders:

Rejection is redirection.
What’s now is not forever.
Them treating you shittyy has more to do with them than you.
Every girl finds her Travis eventually.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

“But you didn’t want to just stay together for the kids?”

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Realizing you've held on for far too long and getting sick at the idea of spending another year in misery is the reason why January is known as divorce month.

Big respect to everyone who has tried to make it work, but is ready to do the hardest and best thing for themselves.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Dear Single Parent,

I know some days it feels impossible - like you’re screwing it all up. I know you’re exhausted, scared and confused.

But I want you to know that you’re on the right path - you’ve got this.

You’re going to be so proud of you soon. I promise.

[Amanda Goetz @AmandaMGoetz]

I’ve been a single parent for 6 years.

Every year the kids ask why I don’t have presents under the tree and I always say “because I have everything I need” and hug them.

This is my first Christmas with a partner post divorce.

Today he asked to take the kids shopping for presents for me and they are so excited.

I can’t fully express how full my heart is right now.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Like I always say, what’s now is not forever. 🫶🏻

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Just a reminder that while you’re busy fighting over the “best interests” of the kids, you’ve already lost the battle.

Conflict between parents will have more of an impact on the kids than the issue you’re arguing over.

Pick 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 battles 👏🏻

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

Leaving an unhealthy relationship will literally change the course of your entire life.

If that’s the bravest thing you ever do, it’s enough.

[The Michelle Dempsey @MichelleDWrites]

It’s Monday, you survived the weekend without your ex, or without your kids if they were with the ex, you’re beautiful, you’re strong, you’re setting boundaries and sticking to them, and the only revenge you need is to grow into a better version of yourself.

Let’s get it. 🫶🏻