A blog by Shabana Saleem on parenting and parting from a family mediator and barrister in the Middle East.
Essential Readings
Whether you're navigating fertility challenges, separation, or co-parenting after divorce, these carefully selected titles come highly recommended by clients and professionals alike. Thoughtful, supportive, and often transformative—there’s something here for everyone on their family journey.
The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes
Apart
By Constance Ahrons
Challenges the myth of the “broken” family, offering research-based guidance on
how divorcing couples can preserve healthy family relationships and support their children through respectful, cooperative separation.
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
By Bruce Fisher & Robert Alberti
Emotionally intelligent guide to processing separation or divorce, helping individuals move from heartbreak to personal growth and renewal.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
By Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Practical strategies for navigating high-stakes, emotionally charged discussions with clarity, empathy, and confidence—whether at home or in professional settings.
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
By Roger Fisher & William Ury
Principled negotiation—a collaborative, interest-based approach that helps parties reach fair and lasting agreements without unnecessary conflict or compromise.
Two Homes, One Childhood: A Parenting Plan to Last a Lifetime
By Robert E. Emery, PhD
A child-focused approach to co-parenting after separation, guiding parents in creating flexible, long-term parenting plans that prioritise stability, empathy, and emotional security.
The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation
By Karen Bonnell & Kristin Little
Practical tools and guidance for separated parents to raise emotionally healthy, resilient children—offering clear strategies for communication, boundaries, and parenting across two homes.