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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

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (“Cafcass”) is England that considers the children’s best interests in English family court proceedings. The Cafcass guide to a Parenting Plan is a helpful starting point to explore the arrangements for children, by helping parents put the child first.

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.

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.