Topic:
Protecting Children from the Hidden Emotional Impacts of Divorce

Divorce brings emotional, legal, and logistical challenges that ripple through every part of a family, and children often carry impacts that aren't always visible to the adults navigating the process.

In this conversation, Kerry Stutzman, MSW, LMFT, and Palmer Skudneski, MS, MFTC, co-founders of Care for the Kids, explore how parental conflict, emotional disconnection, loyalty binds, co-parenting patterns, and the absence of a shared family vision can affect children in ways parents may not immediately recognize.

Drawing on their clinical training, professional work with families, and their own lived experience with high-conflict divorce, Kerry and Palmer offer practical, compassionate guidance for reducing inadvertent harm, staying emotionally connected to your children, and making choices that protect their long-term well-being.

Join us for an hour of grounded, real-world insight, no matter where you are in your journey. This conversation is for both parents and professionals working in the divorce field. The event is free to attend, share it with someone who needs this healing information.

Space is limited — click the link below to save your spot today!

📅 October 14, 2026
🕛 12:00 PM MST / 2:00 PM ET
🎟️ Free
💻 Google Meet - No download or account required
🔗 Space is limited - Save your spot today! https://www.peacefulpresencedivorcecoaching.com/lunchandlearn

Topic:
Protecting Your Future: Estate Planning During and After Divorce

Divorce changes nearly every part of your life — including who's legally responsible for your care, your assets, and your children if something happens to you. Yet estate planning is often one of the last things on the list, even though it's one of the most important forms of protection you can put in place for yourself and the people you love.

Join me and guest speaker Rachel Brunfon, an estate planning attorney at The Rains Law Firm who has practiced law since 1998, for a Lunch & Learn on Protecting Your Future: Estate Planning During and After Divorce. Rachel has a particular passion for helping divorced women start over with clear, updated protections in place — not just for their assets, but for their children and their own care in the event of incapacity.

In this session, Rachel will walk us through:

• Why an old will or trust may no longer reflect your wishes — or protect the people you intend it to

• What happens, legally, if you don't have a will or trust in place

• How incapacity planning works, and why it matters during and after divorce

• What the process actually looks like, and why it doesn't have to be complicated or expensive

Whether you're in the middle of your divorce or rebuilding on the other side of it, this conversation is designed to give you clear, grounded information — no pressure, no jargon, just a chance to understand your options and take the next step at your own pace.

Space is limited — click the link below to save your spot today!

📅 September 23
🕛 12:00 PM MST / 2:00 PM ET
🎟️ Free
💻 Google Meet - No download or account required
🔗 Space is limited - Save your spot today! https://www.peacefulpresencedivorcecoaching.com/lunchandlearn

Topic:
Rising Beyond Overwhelm: Executive Functioning Through Trauma

Trauma doesn't just live in memory — it changes how the brain functions day to day. For protective parents navigating high-conflict custody cases, chronic stress and coercive control can quietly erode executive functioning: the mental skills we rely on for planning, organizing, memory, regulating emotions, and following through on tasks. When these capacities are affected, it can be misread — by courts, by co-parents, even by parents themselves — as instability.

In this free Lunch & Learn, we'll dig into what executive functioning actually is, how trauma and chronic stress reshape it, and why this matters for anyone managing co-parenting logistics, legal deadlines, and daily life under sustained pressure. We'll talk about what this looks like day to day, why willpower alone isn't the answer, and what actually helps.

Sybil Cummin joins me to lend her expertise to this powerful conversation. Sybil, LPC, ACS, is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has spent the last decade working with victims and survivors of coercive control and domestic violence, including the children in these families. Sybil founded Rising Beyond Power and Control and hosts The Rising Beyond Podcast.

Protective parents will leave with language and validation for what they may already be experiencing. Clinicians will leave with a clearer framework for recognizing executive functioning challenges without pathologizing them.

This is a free, 45-minute session followed by live Q&A, hosted on Google Meet and limited to 150 participants. Register today to save your spot!

Wednesday, August 26 | 12:00 PM MST / 2:00 PM EST

Topic:
Coming Home to Yourself: Mini-Rituals for Reconnection and Self-Trust

Peaceful Presence Divorce Coaching's Lunch & Learn Series continues on Wednesday, August 12th. Join me and guest speaker Nicole Beaudin, Executive Coach, Intuitive Strategist, and Reiki Practitioner, for “Coming Home to Yourself: Mini-Rituals for Reconnection and Self-Trust.”

Nicole spends much of her work with high-achieving founders and executives who look accomplished on the outside while feeling like they're losing their footing on the inside. She's seen that same quiet erosion in people who've been made to doubt their own reality for too long — including protective parents and survivors navigating high-conflict custody cases with coercively controlling ex-partners.

In this session, Nicole will guide participants through mini-rituals — a moment of self-care, a breath, a pause — designed to help you reconnect with your own intuition: the part of you that recognized the truth long before anyone else validated it. These practices aren't about arriving at a finish line. They're about finding small, repeatable moments of steadiness you can return to, again and again, regardless of how the abuser continues to behave or how the case unfolds.

This session will resonate with both protective parents looking for grounded, low-lift self-regulation tools, and with clinicians and helping professionals who want additional resourcing techniques to offer clients navigating chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation from coercive control.

Topic:
Practical Pro Se Strategy for Family Court

Join us for a free Lunch & Learn on court strategy, procedure, and the rights of pro se parties. Tracey Bee, founder of The Divorce Solutionist and former family law attorney, will share practical guidance for parents navigating family court without an attorney — helping you avoid common mistakes and approach the process with more clarity and confidence.

Topic:
Finding Steady Ground: Nervous System Regulation Tools to Survive Abusive Divorce

If you’re trying to survive a divorce from an abusive or coercively controlling partner, your nervous system has likely been working overtime. This session offers practical, body-based tools that can help you find a little more steady ground in your day-to-day life.

They will start with some psychoeducation on how the nervous system responds to chronic stress and trauma, then guide the group through practicing several regulation tools together. Corynne will also share parts of her own story and demonstrate how she uses these tools herself. Toward the end of the session, Corynne and Cameron will be available for Q&A if you’d like support thinking through how these tools might apply to your own situation.

This Lunch & Learn is part of Peaceful Presence’s free monthly series, offering protective parents practical tools, education, and community as they navigate divorce and family court.

Guest Speakers:
Corynne and Cameron Kiernes | New Horizon Psychotherapy

Dr. Corynne Keirnes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who supports individuals and couples facing anxiety, depression, perinatal mental health challenges, relational distress, and narcissistic abuse. Her work is grounded in the integration of neuroscience, attachment theory, and family systems.

Dr. Keirnes is a Level II Certified Restoration Therapist, trained by Dr. Terry Hargrave. She aids clients in moving beyond reactive cycles by strengthening both mindfulness and self-agency. Her goal is to empower individuals and couples to make meaningful choices, restore emotional safety, and cultivate the relationships and life they truly desire.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Keirnes is a full-time faculty member at Vanguard University, where she trains graduate students in developing strong clinical foundations. She is dedicated to teaching students how to meaningfully integrate interpersonal neuroscience and faith into clinical practice, preparing them to lead with both insight and integrity in the counseling field. 

Corynne@newhorizonpsychotherapy.com  (720) 295-3603

Dr. Cameron Keirnes is a compassionate and experienced Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) dedicated to supporting individuals, couples, families, and professionals in their personal and relational growth. A graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary, Cameron brings a deep understanding of human development, relationships, and emotional well-being. Utilizing his extensive experience working with children with developmental differences, adolescents, and adults navigating complex life challenges, Cameron takes a holistic and strengths-based approach to therapy. As a DIRFloortime®-certified clinician, he specializes in working with neurodiverse individuals, helping clients and their families foster deeper connections and self-understanding.
Cameron@newhorizonpsychotherapy.com (720) 295-8508

Topic:
Finally, a Win: What HB26-1309 Means for Colorado Protective Parents

Guest Speaker:
Cecily Riney | Skulborstad Legal Group | Family Law Specialist & Family Court Reform Advocate

Cecily Riney is a family law specialist at Skulborstad Legal Group who is deeply committed to victim advocacy and public policy reform in Colorado. She is a member of the Colorado Women's Bar Association Policy Action Committee, Rose Andom VOICES, the Rose Andom Young Professionals Committee, and the National Safe Parents Organization (NSPO). Cecily is actively involved in authoring domestic violence and family court reform legislation and regularly testifies before the Colorado legislature in support of meaningful change. As a domestic violence victim-survivor and protective parent, she brings both lived experience and fierce advocacy to her work.

Cecily played a central role in authoring, lobbying for, and testifying in support of HB26-1309 — landmark Colorado legislation addressing family court measures related to forms of abuse in divorce and custody cases. Signed into law on May 27, 2026, this bill is now controlling law in Colorado and represents a significant step forward in protecting children and abused parents in custody proceedings, including explicit protections against litigation abuse in domestic violence cases.

Join us for a conversation with Cecily as she walks us through the bill, breaks down what it actually means, and helps us understand the real-world implications and practical applications for Colorado protective parents.

Topic:
Dollars & Decisions: A CDFA Answers Your Top Divorce Financial Questions

Guest Speaker:
Brianna Beski, CDFA® | Raymond James

Brianna Beski, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) will share the Top Questions she is asked as a CDFA from people going through divorce to better understand the impact of decisions now, later, through retirement and life expectancy from a financial perspective.

What You'll Gain:

• Answers to the most common divorce financial questions from a trusted CDFA

• Insight into how today's decisions affect your finances through retirement and beyond

• Practical knowledge to help you advocate for yourself at the negotiating table

• A clearer picture of your financial future — no matter where you are in the process

Topic:
New Laws, New Leverage: How Recent Family Law Changes Affect Your Custody Case

Guest Speaker:
Ms. Dorothy Walsh Ripka, Esq.  | Partner, Brown Carrington, PLLC

Family law is changing—and those changes matter now for protective parents navigating custody and high-conflict divorce. In New Laws, New Leverage, we break down recent legislative updates that directly impact temporary protection orders, child support calculations, custody and decision-making outcomes, and the professionals courts rely on to evaluate families.

This Lunch & Learn will cover critical updates to domestic violence statutes—including the formal recognition of coercive control as domestic violence—and explain how these changes affect custody outcomes, parental decision-making, and your court strategy to protect your children from an unhealthy and abusive parent. We’ll also examine new definitions and guidelines for Child Legal Representatives, Parental Coordinators/Decision-Makers, and Child and Family Investigators, so you can make informed choices about whether—and when—to involve them in your case.

If you are a protective parent who needs to understand how the legal landscape is shifting and how to position your case accordingly, this session will give you clarity, and context, and leave you feeling more educated about pathways toward protecting your children and your peace.

Topic:
Money, Stability & The Next Chapter: Rebuilding Your Financial Life After Divorce
Divorce doesn’t just change your relationship and your way of life. It reshapes your entire financial world.

For many women, this brings a level of stress and uncertainty that can feel paralyzing. Financial decisions suddenly carry more weight, more fear, and more pressure to “get it right.”

This conversation is designed to meet you exactly where you are.

Instead of overwhelming you with complex strategies or long-term financial planning, this Lunch & Learn focuses on what matters most right now: creating stability.

Together, we’ll explore why money feels so difficult during divorce - especially when you’re navigating emotional stress - and how to move out of survival mode with simple, practical steps.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand your current financial picture with clarity
• Prioritize essential expenses and create a manageable spending plan
• Build a financial safety net that supports your peace of mind
• Let go of rigid financial “rules” that don’t apply during life transitions
• Take aligned, steady steps toward financial independence

This is not about having all the answers.
It’s about creating a foundation that feels safe, steady, and supportive.

You are not starting over.
You are starting from experience, strength, and clarity.

And you don’t have to do it alone. Navigating divorce takes a village, I’m so glad you’re here 💚

Cost: Free!

Host:
Cat Climaco | Founder, Peaceful Presence Divorce Coaching | Lead Divorce & Custody Coach

Guest Speaker:
Morgan Brown, Certified Financial Coach

Morgan Brown is a certified financial coach and the founder of Your Money Project, where she helps people create clarity, confidence, and stability in their financial lives. She is especially passionate about supporting women as they navigate major life transitions and rebuild their financial independence.

Before becoming a financial coach, Morgan was a full-time real estate investor and entrepreneur who founded, scaled, and successfully exited a seven-figure business. Through those experiences, she saw firsthand how deeply money impacts the choices we make and the opportunities available to us.

Today, Morgan works with individuals, couples, and business owners to build simple, personalized money systems that reduce stress and help people move forward with confidence. Her mission is to help women feel informed, empowered, and in control of their financial future.

Topic:
It Doesn’t Take Two to Tango: Survival Strategies for Abusive Co-Parenting
If you’ve been labeled “high conflict” while doing everything in your power to protect your child, I want you to hear this clearly - it does not always take two to tango.

In many custody cases labeled “high conflict”, the conflict is not mutual. One parent is trying to create stability, follow court orders, and shield their child from chaos. The other is escalating, provoking, filing motions, or performing cooperation while creating conflict behind the scenes. In other words, asymmetrical conflict.

In this powerful Lunch & Learn conversation, I’m joined by custody mediator and court advocate Al Huntoon to unpack what abusive co-parenting dynamics actually look like, and how protective parents can respond strategically instead of reactively.

Together, we’ll discuss:

• The difference between “high conflict” and one-sided conflict

• Patterns of litigation abuse and performative cooperation

• Why courts often mislabel protective parents

• The relational vs transactional “operating systems” at play

• How parallel parenting actually works

• Boundaries that protect your peace

• Emotional regulation strategies that strengthen your credibility and resilience

This session is designed specifically for protective parents navigating coercive control, custody stalking (aka litigation abuse), and ongoing post-separation abuse.

You will leave with language for what you’re experiencing and concrete tools to navigate it without losing yourself in the process.

Topic:
Eating for Steadier Days

Guest Speaker:
Lauren Friarson, MA, MNT | Business and Success Coach

Caring for yourself during a high-conflict divorce or co-parenting with a narcissist requires next-level self care to stay resilient and centered for your children and yourself. Simple nutrition choices can support blood sugar stability, better sleep, improved focus, and reduced daily stress. This session emphasizes caring for yourself through small, consistent habits that feel manageable and create meaningful, long-term benefits. Join me as Lauren and I explore how simple shifts in your nutrition can support your long-term health, and in-turn boost your resilience for the journey ahead.

Topic:
The Financial Reset After Divorce: How Today’s Decisions Affect Tomorrow

Guest Speaker:
Connie Howard | Founder, What-If Wealth | CDFA-Trained Financial Analyst

Topic:
Telling the Truth: How Age-Appropriate Honesty Protects Your Kids

Guest Speaker:
Claire Eliassen, LPC, is a mental health professional and speaker with more than a decade of experience supporting kids and moms with their mental health.

Topic:
Protect Your Peace: Drafting a Manipulation-Proof Parenting Plan

Guest Speakers:
Join us for a free 30-minute expert conversation with Cierra Garso & Hannah Schoeninger of The Jane Law Group.

Cierra Garso is a seasoned Family Law Attorney who brings her expertise and empathy to every case she handles. With a commitment to clarity and practical solutions, Cierra ensures her clients understand their options and receive the support they need during challenging times. She is trusted ally, guiding her clients through the complexities of family law with competence, compassion, and excellent communication skills. If you are navigating a family law matter, Cierra is dedicated to helping you achieve a positive outcome.

Hannah Schoeninger is a dedicated Family Law Licensed Legal Paraprofessional (LLP) with a deep understanding of the complexities that come with divorce, separation, and custody arrangements. Her clients appreciate her for being both knowledgeable and action-oriented. Her experience spans divorce proceedings, child custody disputes, and domestic violence cases. She understands the emotional toll these situations can take and is dedicated to being a supportive guide, keeping her clients informed and empowered every step of the way.

Topic:
Cutting Costs, Not Corners: The Value of Unbundled Legal Services

Guest Speaker:
Join us for a free 30-minute expert conversation with Ashley B. Adabahr, LLP. Ashley is a Licensed Legal Paraprofessional and family law mediator at Two Roads Licensed Legal Paraprofessionals, LLC. Her Colorado family law practice focuses on helping clients approach divorce from a solutions-based perspective, with the goal of achieving a fair settlement and avoiding costly and emotionally draining litigation.