Karen Bigman is the Founder & President of TheDivorcierge.com. She works with individuals transitioning through the difficult process of divorce. By sorting through the overwhelm of emotions and getting organized for the process, clients can move forward with their lives and not stay stuck and defeated. The Divorcierge holds social events in NYC around various topics including: Online Dating, Stress Management, Astrology of Relationships among others.
Karen blogs regularly on topics related to divorce. She has been quoted in the Financial Times and published several articles in the Huffington post.
She is a Martha Beck Trained Life Coach and a CDC Certified Divorce Coach® and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.S.B.A. from Boston University.
I’ve watched many people around me go through divorce from afar. It wasn’t until I started the process myself that I started to see examples of inexplicable behavior during divorce. Parents who left children, never to be seen or heard from again, spouses refusing to pay support, others, completely cleaning out the bank account were just a few. I also began to see how perfectly functioning, intelligent people became incapable of the smallest task when faced with the overwhelm of divorce.
I have had several jobs in the past 10 years, most of them in some business related field. There was reason to be good at what I did but none to be emotionally involved. I am an extremely empathetic person and was finding that I needed to help everyone who was having a rough time around me. One friend suffered from gambling addiction, another low self-confidence despite her great success. I always wanted to ‘save’ them. Even as a child, my friends were the ones with divorced parents or single parents, a relative rarity in my community.
I thought I ‘fell’ into divorce coaching but actually, it found me! Besides the joy of being a parent, there is nothing that makes me feel better than sitting across the table from one of my clients and hearing her start to find clarity and move forward. No matter how many tears and how much devastation there is in their lives, they want things to turn around. That’s what makes me keep doing what I do!
