Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Jan 5, 2021The Silver Linings of 2020Hey 2020, don’t let the door hit you in the ass!! Though 2020 is a year I think the majority of us would rather “not count”, the reality…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Oct 10, 2020Can your marriage be saved?This blog was originally written more than five years ago (a few months after I separated from my ex-husband). I have now been divorced…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Sep 18, 2020Reflections for the Jewish New Year…now pick up the damn phone!!Tonight begins the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the beginning of the Days of Awe. Much like the secular new…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Aug 24, 2020Learning to flyOne year ago today, I wrote a version of this letter to my oldest daughter for her to open en route from San Diego to Boston for her…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Aug 15, 2020Following the pathSix years ago I knew Silver Linings Transitions was the work I was meant to be doing. The whole business “came to me”. I was working part…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Jul 18, 2020I don’t have butterflies and why I hired a dating coachAs someone who never stopped going — probably partly due to being an introvert, having ADD and possibly a little avoidance, I was very…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·May 7, 202015 ways to appreciate your Mother or “Other” for Mother’s DayAs someone who’s gone through divorce, I am often one of the first people to hear from friends and acquaintances when their marriages are…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·May 2, 2020I still think NOW is the time to online date but maybe not for me.My excitement documented in week two of “shelter in place” and featured on CBS This Morning has worn off. After six weeks of “Covideo…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·May 2, 2020Lessons learned from more than 100 first datesBack in November 2017, I created the Facebook Group “50 First Dates”. I invited my Facebook community to join me and I gave myself the…
Jami Goldfarb Shapiro·Apr 27, 2020My parents divorced when I was one so I had no memory of the two of them together.When he came back, she accepted him and when they celebrated their “50th” Anniversary more than 20 years later, she jokingly referred to…
