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Divorce ‘detox’ retreats – the new trend in healing from a marriage breakdown

Australia’s first divorce retreat was held last weekend. What was it about and why do we need it?

People prepare for marriage with counselling, in order to learn how to be a better partner, but there’s nothing out there to teach us how to be better at divorce. Granted, no one thinks that their relationship will be the one to fail, but with around one in three marriages ending, there may be something to learning how to do divorce as smoothly as possible.

It’s why family dispute resolution practitioner, family lawyer and family law arbitrator Cassandra Kalpaxis founded Australia’s first divorce retreat. Detox Your Divorce was held near Sydney last weekend and it was a sold-out event, with another to follow in September.

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The closest train stations are Town Hall, taking the Park Street exit, or St James Station, taking the Elizabeth Street exit. John R Quinn & Co. is on the corner of Park and Elizabeth.

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