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Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast
Honest, expert-backed conversations about divorce, co-parenting, and moving forward.
Hosted by professional mediators Alex Howard and Amanda Silver, Dirty Laundry dives into the real questions women ask when navigating separation, custody battles, toxic relationships, and dating again. This is your safe space to learn, reflect, and take back control — no shame, no sugarcoating.
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Dirty Laundry: The Divorce Podcast
Encore: Break the Attack-Defend Loop — How Insight Mediation Is Changing the Way Families Divorce
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Mary Anne Popescu is the Executive Director of the Ontario Association for Family Mediation and a practicing family mediator of over two decades. In this encore episode, she introduces the concept that changed both her practice and her own marriage: the attack-defend loop, and how naming it in real time can stop a conversation from spiraling.
She and Alex and Amanda dig into insight mediation, why she prefers the phrase "families experiencing high conflict behavior" over the label "high conflict," and how future-focused questions can unlock genuinely creative solutions for even the most complex blended families. They also talk about the grief that underlies every separation, no matter who initiated it, and why control over how your story ends is often the biggest reason people choose mediation over litigation.
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