How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

Gabrielle Hartley is a nationally-recognized divorce attorney, online mediator and divorce strategy coach with a strong focus on conflict resolution. She is the author of “Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate” and she joins us today to share how she brings mindfulness to the divorce process.

Show Notes

Gabrielle Hartley is a nationally-recognized divorce attorney, online mediator and divorce strategy coach with a strong focus on conflict resolution. She is the author of Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate and she joins us today to share how she brings mindfulness to the divorce process.

No, Gabrielle doesn't lead her clients through a yoga practice in the mediation process. But she does lead us through some specific exercises focusing on breathing and returning to our bodies in a way that can help remain positive and attentive under stress. Her approach is to help her clients to remember that patience, respect, clarity, and peace are all part of an everyday practice, integrating new behaviors in our lives to help us accomplish our greatest challenges.

Links & Notes

  • (00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
  • (00:26) - Meet Gabrielle Hartley
  • (01:10) - Mindfulness in the Divorce Process
  • (05:24) - Release, Recalibration, & Renewal
  • (08:52) - The WHAT vs. the WHY in What You're Fighting About
  • (11:14) - Confirming the Desire to Divorce
  • (13:22) - Going to Counseling and Its Potential Stigma
  • (15:07) - Renewal
  • (17:47) - When Everyone's at Their Worst
  • (20:46) - Breathing Exercises
  • (26:23) - Learning to Internalize
  • (28:35) - Power Position
  • (31:08) - Better Apart
  • (32:13) - Where to Find Gabrielle

Creators & Guests

Host
Pete Wright
Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.
Host
Seth R. Nelson
Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.
Producer
Andy Nelson
Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships?

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.