Securely Attached Navigating high-conflict divorce while prioritizing your own needs and attachment relationships with Karen McMahon
Nov 11, 2025
In this engaging conversation, Karen McMahon, the founder of Journey Beyond Divorce and a seasoned divorce coach, shares her insights on navigating high-conflict separations. She defines key patterns, like lack of empathy, that characterize high-conflict parents. Karen emphasizes the importance of personal healing and setting boundaries while co-parenting. They discuss the role of unresolved trauma in relationships and the strategies to reclaim your identity after divorce. Listeners will find practical tools to protect their children and foster a healthier outlook on life.
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Control The One Thing You Can
- Focus on what you can control: your own behavior, emotions, and nervous system.
- Regulate yourself first to better support your children and stop trying to change your ex.
What “High-Conflict” Really Looks Like
- High-conflict means persistent blame, lack of empathy, projection, and no real reconciliation.
- These dynamics create confusion and self-doubt by destabilizing your sense of reality.
Test Shared Parenting With Small Steps
- Create small, specific experiments to test shared parenting while under one roof.
- Break big fears into baby steps and track outcomes between sessions.