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In this issue:

1. Energize
2. Learning to Live Apart
3. Cupid and Contracts
4. Mediation - It Works
5. Adding Color to Your World
6. Building a Happier Future

1. TOTAL HEALTH:
   Energize
   Exercise can help to relieve stress and depression -- and boost your energy -- during and after divorce.
   
2. RELATIONSHIPS / DATING:
   Learning to Live Apart
   Separation is an important stage of the divorce process. This waiting period can be the perfect thing to calm your nerves and give you needed clarity. During this time, you must "cut the cord" to bring about a state of closure, because it's only with closure that you can begin a new life.
   
3. LEGAL:
   Cupid and Contracts
   It may not be a romantic exercise, but creating a marriage or cohabitation agreement can help you identify potential bones of contention -- as well as protecting you financially if your love affair turns sour.
   
4. MEDIATION:
   Mediation - It Works
   During this cooperative, problem-solving process, an impartial professional -- or a team in some cases -- helps divorcing couples to clearly define the issues in dispute and to reach agreements that are in the family's best interests.
   
5. YOUR HOME:
   Adding Color to Your World
   Color affects you -- both emotionally and physically. Here's how to use color to make your home a happy and comfortable place to live.
   
6. CHILDREN / PARENTING:
   Building a Happier Future
   All loving parents want the best for their children. You do everything humanly possible to provide for them, to enrich their lives, and to make them feel loved. Perhaps now more than ever, you are acutely conscious of wanting to give your child all the love, support, and guidance he or she needs, but suddenly everything seems harder and more complicated. You and your family are not alone. For more than half of all North American children, divorce is a fact of life.