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Photo by Tim Goedhart on Unsplash Note: This blog is an excerpt from Judge’s Field’s upcoming book:Bold Judging: Creating Families Who Are Self-Governing After Divorce©Julie Field and The Consilium Institute. All rights reserved. Hon. Julie Kunce Field (ret.) Co-Founder, the Consilium Institute As judges, we take on other people’s pain in the most

On a personal level, it’s the overwhelm.  The sense that you are out of your depth. Airdropped into a land of chaos. With little to no direction about how to move forward. What a divorce process looks like depends upon who is looking.  For someone at the outset of that

I recently listened to Maggie Smith read her latest book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful. I was moved by the magnificence of her poetic voice as she unraveled the pain of her divorce and after-marriage, during which she candidly acknowledged  “I don’t have access to the whole picture- only

Earlier this week I listened to Ezra Klein’s podcast interview of Marilynne Robinson, whom I’d never heard speak before. Initially, to my ear her voice sounded almost childlike, timid while also being sort of awestruck. Her ideas were firm and grounded, yet light and graceful.  I found her to be

I have a grandnephew turning three years old today.  Being born on Valentine’s Day seems special, but the “holiday-ness” of his birthday seems even more striking knowing that his father, my nephew Joey, is a “Leap Year baby”.  As I thought about this, I wondered whether Joey’s perspective on birthdays

About a month ago, my youngest daughter asked me if I’d like to go away with her for a couple of days after Thanksgiving. Having had some challenging conversations and disagreements during the past few months, we both decided it would be a good opportunity to go somewhere and just

Wow. It’s been a minute. Of imagining. Of creating. Of innovating. And momentum is building. And fundamentally changing perspectives and practices around divorce and family law. Since our first Consilium Institute training a little more than a year ago, we have had the great privilege of teaching over two hundred

People and Parkinson’s Disease; the surface we see and the people we love.Vast Oceans; the surface above and the sea life below.Where does the beauty live? It was many moons ago when my husband arrived at Yale and met Dave, one of his first friends there.  A number of years

Having boarded our flight from Dubrovnik to London for a connecting flight to Boston, I took my seat between my husband and Aaron, a young British father holding Avery, his twenty-month old daughter. Aaron was seated in the aisle seat across from his wife, who was holding Elizabeth, their other