Now What Do I Do?: A Guide to Help Teenagers with Their Parents' Separation or Divorce

by Lynn Cassella-Kapusinski, Lynn Cassella

In Now What Do I Do? author Lynn Cassella-Kapusinki offers a workbook for teens that helps them flush out their feelings and fears. The author writes with a style that teens can easily relate to without feeling talked down to. The empathetic tone of Now What Do I Do? helps teens confront and define their losses, guiding them through their grief and other difficulties that can result from their parents’ separation or divorce, whether the breakup is recent or years in the past. Each chapter includes exercises and activities that can be done alone or with friends. Now What Do I Do? helps feelings of guilt; Know the steps to emotional recovery; Improve communication with parents; Reexamine family ties; Avoid the parental war zone; Deal with anger; Find comfort in faith and friends; Learn to forgive.

174 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Lynn Cassella-Kapusinski is the President and Founder of the Faith Journeys Foundation, Inc. (www.faithjourneys.org), a nonprofit that has been providing pastoral care for children from divorced or separated families since 2002. She is also a school counselor in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the author of three books for these young people. Her latest book, "When Parents Divorce or Separate: I Can Get Through This," won a first place award from the Catholic Press Association. Lynn has been featured on SIRIUS Catholic Radio, The Catholic Digest, Columbia Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, and other media outlets across the nation.