When I first began working with people in the midst of divorce, I started building a bookshelf. Not just a professional library, but a personal one. Books that helped me understand what it means to rebuild after something breaks.

These books meet you at different stages of the conflict, divorce,...

I was eighteen years into my career as a divorce attorney when I realized I’d stopped crying.

At first, I didn’t even notice. Crying wasn’t something I did often, and never at work. I had trained myself to keep my composure, even in the face of heartbreak: children being used as ammunition, women c...