Navigating Divorce: Protecting Your Kids’ Mental Health

About Course

Divorce is hard. For parents, it can feel like the collapse of a dream—the unraveling of a family you worked so hard to build. The legal process often pits parents against each other, adding fuel to an already painful fire. In the midst of this, it’s easy to lose sight of the one thing that matters most: your children’s mental and emotional wellbeing.

This course offers a clear and compassionate path forward. Created and co-taught by Kerry Stutzman and Palmer Skudneski—a mother and son who lived through one of the most high-conflict, protracted, and alienating custody cases in Colorado history—it brings both lived experience and professional insight to the table. Kerry is a licensed marriage and family therapist with decades of experience guiding parents through divorce. Palmer, her son, holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern and is a sought-after life coach for teens.

Together, they blend personal resilience with clinical wisdom to illuminate what kids really need when their family is redefined. Through professionally filmed video lessons and interactive exercises inspired by the Socratic method, you’ll learn how to:

Build a vision of your restructured family
Understand and name the emotions your tweens and teens are facing
Identify and mitigate the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Help your kids navigate life in two homes
Recognize early signs of alienation
Keep lines of communication open
Approach dating and step-parenting with care and clarity

If you’re ready to do the hardest thing—lead with love while managing loss—this course will show you how. Your kids are counting on you. Let’s give them the best chance to thrive.

Course Content

Our Story
In this opening module, Kerry and Palmer share their personal experience with high-conflict divorce to reveal universal truths about alienation, grief, and resilience—and to highlight the patterns and choices that can help protect your child’s sense of self.

Our Story

Parent’s Creed (not table of contents, simply 10 best action items)
The Parents’ Creed offers a clear, compassionate framework to help you parent with intention during divorce—protecting your child’s emotional wellbeing by staying grounded in love, empathy, and restraint.

Your Redefined Family – a vision for what comes next
This module helps you create a clear, intentional vision for your redefined family—one that brings consistency, connection, and hope to your kids, even across two households.

What Your Kids Are Feeling (But Might Not Say)
This module helps parents recognize and support the grief their kids experience during divorce—creating space for big emotions, validating their pain, and fostering emotional healing in a time of profound change.

ACEs – Why Divorce and Parental Conflict Are a Big Deal
This module explains how divorce and parental conflict can become Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and shows parents how to reduce long-term harm by minimizing risk factors and increasing emotional protection.

Living in two houses: navigating the transitions while helping it still feel like a family
This module offers practical strategies to help kids navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of living in two homes—while preserving their sense of stability, connection, and family identity.

Caught in the Middle: Recognizing and Preventing Parental Alienation
This module helps parents recognize early signs of alienation, reflect on their own behavior, and take proactive steps to protect their child’s emotional connection with both parents.

Keeping your kids talking

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Navigating Divorce: Protecting Your Kids’ Mental Health

About Course

Course Content

Our Story
In this opening module, Kerry and Palmer share their personal experience with high-conflict divorce to reveal universal truths about alienation, grief, and resilience—and to highlight the patterns and choices that can help protect your child’s sense of self.

Our Story

Parent’s Creed (not table of contents, simply 10 best action items)
The Parents’ Creed offers a clear, compassionate framework to help you parent with intention during divorce—protecting your child’s emotional wellbeing by staying grounded in love, empathy, and restraint.

The Parent’s Creed

Your Redefined Family – a vision for what comes next
This module helps you create a clear, intentional vision for your redefined family—one that brings consistency, connection, and hope to your kids, even across two households.

This Is the Hard Part (But It Matters Most)

What Your Kids Are Feeling (But Might Not Say)
This module helps parents recognize and support the grief their kids experience during divorce—creating space for big emotions, validating their pain, and fostering emotional healing in a time of profound change.

Understanding Your Kid’s Emotions – Grief and Loss

ACEs – Why Divorce and Parental Conflict Are a Big Deal
This module explains how divorce and parental conflict can become Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and shows parents how to reduce long-term harm by minimizing risk factors and increasing emotional protection.

Protecting Your Child from the Emotional Fallout

What does an ACE look like?

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Living in two houses: navigating the transitions while helping it still feel like a family
This module offers practical strategies to help kids navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of living in two homes—while preserving their sense of stability, connection, and family identity.

More Than a Hand-Off: Creating Stability Across Homes

Caught in the Middle: Recognizing and Preventing Parental Alienation
This module helps parents recognize early signs of alienation, reflect on their own behavior, and take proactive steps to protect their child’s emotional connection with both parents.

Preventing Parental Alienation – What to Watch For and How to Protect Your Kids

Keeping your kids talking

Keeping Your Kids Talking: Building Secure, Connected Relationships

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Course Content

Our Story In this opening module, Kerry and Palmer share their personal experience with high-conflict divorce to reveal universal truths about alienation, grief, and resilience—and to highlight the patterns and choices that can help protect your child’s sense of self.

Our Story

Parent’s Creed (not table of contents, simply 10 best action items) The Parents’ Creed offers a clear, compassionate framework to help you parent with intention during divorce—protecting your child’s emotional wellbeing by staying grounded in love, empathy, and restraint.

The Parent’s Creed

Your Redefined Family – a vision for what comes next This module helps you create a clear, intentional vision for your redefined family—one that brings consistency, connection, and hope to your kids, even across two households.

This Is the Hard Part (But It Matters Most)

What Your Kids Are Feeling (But Might Not Say) This module helps parents recognize and support the grief their kids experience during divorce—creating space for big emotions, validating their pain, and fostering emotional healing in a time of profound change.

Understanding Your Kid’s Emotions – Grief and Loss

ACEs – Why Divorce and Parental Conflict Are a Big Deal This module explains how divorce and parental conflict can become Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and shows parents how to reduce long-term harm by minimizing risk factors and increasing emotional protection.

Protecting Your Child from the Emotional Fallout

What does an ACE look like?

Test Form

Living in two houses: navigating the transitions while helping it still feel like a family This module offers practical strategies to help kids navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of living in two homes—while preserving their sense of stability, connection, and family identity.

More Than a Hand-Off: Creating Stability Across Homes

Caught in the Middle: Recognizing and Preventing Parental Alienation This module helps parents recognize early signs of alienation, reflect on their own behavior, and take proactive steps to protect their child’s emotional connection with both parents.

Preventing Parental Alienation – What to Watch For and How to Protect Your Kids

Keeping your kids talking

Keeping Your Kids Talking: Building Secure, Connected Relationships

Student Ratings & Reviews

Our Story
In this opening module, Kerry and Palmer share their personal experience with high-conflict divorce to reveal universal truths about alienation, grief, and resilience—and to highlight the patterns and choices that can help protect your child’s sense of self.

Parent’s Creed (not table of contents, simply 10 best action items)
The Parents’ Creed offers a clear, compassionate framework to help you parent with intention during divorce—protecting your child’s emotional wellbeing by staying grounded in love, empathy, and restraint.

Your Redefined Family – a vision for what comes next
This module helps you create a clear, intentional vision for your redefined family—one that brings consistency, connection, and hope to your kids, even across two households.

What Your Kids Are Feeling (But Might Not Say)
This module helps parents recognize and support the grief their kids experience during divorce—creating space for big emotions, validating their pain, and fostering emotional healing in a time of profound change.

ACEs – Why Divorce and Parental Conflict Are a Big Deal
This module explains how divorce and parental conflict can become Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and shows parents how to reduce long-term harm by minimizing risk factors and increasing emotional protection.

Living in two houses: navigating the transitions while helping it still feel like a family
This module offers practical strategies to help kids navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of living in two homes—while preserving their sense of stability, connection, and family identity.

Caught in the Middle: Recognizing and Preventing Parental Alienation
This module helps parents recognize early signs of alienation, reflect on their own behavior, and take proactive steps to protect their child’s emotional connection with both parents.