Protecting Your Children: How to Make High-Conflict Co-Parenting Work Best for You and Your Children; with guests Diane Dierks and Rick Voyles

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We know that co-parenting in and of itself is challenging, but what about co-parenting with someone who is high conflict? This week we have two incredibly knowledgeable guests in all things co-parenting. Diane Dierks and Rick Voyles join Michelle Dempsey-Multack to educate listeners on what they can do when they find themselves co-parenting with someone who is high conflict. They dig deep into: The top co-parenting dilemmas Protecting your children Their feelings on "grey rocking" a high-conflict co-parent Having flexible communication to better help your children AND MUCH MORE Diane Dierks is a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as the executive director of the Center for Navigating Family Change (www.CNFC.org), a non-profit that provides court-ordered parenting education and co-parenting services to the state of Georgia. She has been a parenting coordinator and reunification therapist for many years and provides consultation and expert witness services in high-conflict custody matters. She resides in St. Simons Island, Georgia with her husband and their three-legged Lab mix and one-eyed Yorkie. She has two grown children and two grandchildren. Rick Voyles is CEO of the Center for Dispute Solutions, as well as a certified business coach, an anger management specialist, and a professional mediator. Rick travels internationally, training and developing federal mediators in their agency ADR programs. He is a published author, business coach and entrepreneur. He has developed online Mediation Training including over 17 video presentations. He has also produced a TV program, “Conflict Mediation and You” where he discusses topics in conflict management, as well as mediation techniques. Rick is a subject matter expert in the area of Divorce, Co-Parenting, Negotiation, Cross-cultural Communication and Conflict Resolution. He frequently teaches court-ordered co-parenting seminars and is a trained parenting coordinator. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Janet.  What do you do when the other parent won't be flexible with the parenting schedule? How do you respond to a co-parent who is constantly blowing up your phone with texts? Is it important to talk to your children when they are at the other parent's house? And what about the parent who won't share important information with you about the children? Do you give in to the other parents’ antics or should you hold your ground? Get answers to these questions and more on Co-Parent Dilemmas wherever you get your podcasts. Rick and Diane release new episodes of their podcast every Sunday at noon and it can be accessed on their website at https://www.cpdilemmas.com or wherever you listen. They have also published a follow-along journal that listeners can purchase that is acompanion to the podcast. It is called I AmNon-Impossible: A 12-Week Journey to Co-Parenting Peace. Amazonlink is: https://www.amazon.com/Am-NON-Impossible-12-week-journey-co-parenting-ebook/dp/B0BGJYRF3X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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