Speaking & Seminars

Sharing knowledge from first hand experience

Bring Lived Experience to Your Next Event

Kerry and Palmer bring a rare and powerful voice to the stage, one rooted in clinical expertise, lived experience, and deep humanity. As a mother-son therapy duo who survived a decade of high-conflict divorce and emotional estrangement, they speak with honesty, heart, and hope about what it takes to protect kids and rebuild trust. Their keynotes and workshops are engaging, emotionally resonant, and packed with practical takeaways for parents, professionals, and teens alike. Whether you’re planning a conference, parent education night, or professional training, Kerry and Palmer will tailor their talk to meet your audience’s needs, blending storytelling, humor, and evidence-based insight in a way that sticks.

A Mother-Son Duo Turning Pain Into Purpose

Kerry and Palmer don’t just talk about family struggle—they’ve lived it. Their story is raw, real, and deeply relatable to anyone who has faced conflict, disconnection, or the fear of losing a child. As public speakers, they bring a rare combination of vulnerability and professionalism that resonates across audiences. They speak not from a place of perfection, but from hard-earned wisdom, clinical insight, and genuine compassion. Whether they’re leading a keynote or an intimate seminar, Kerry and Palmer create a space where people feel safe, seen, and inspired to grow. Their story proves that healing is possible—and their mission is to help others get there, too.

Featured in a CNN article to share how our relationship went from disconnection to connection during the teen years, March 2022

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN

Presenting at the AFCC Annual Child Custody Symposium in Columbus, OH, November, 2024

Presenting at the International Family Therapy Association in Toyoma, Japan on youth suicide research, April 2024

What Others Are Saying

Keystone Topics

Care for the Kid: A mother-son presentation on parent and teen relationships
Scars of a High Conflict Divorce: A Mother and Son’s Guidance for Protecting the Mental Health of Children of Divorce
Bridge the Gap: Keep your Teens and Tweens Talking to You
Bridge the Gap: Research on Youth Suicide Prevention

Places We’ve Presented

Keynote Speakers – Family Law Institute, Vail, Colorado
AFCC Annual Child Custody Symposium, Columbus, Ohio
IFTA World Family Therapy Seminar, Toyama, Japan
CCSD Parent Information Network, Colorado
Operation Parent

Hear from Kerry and Palmer on Sunday mornings with stories from the heart, and thoughts about parenting (from babies to teens to adult children!), creating strong family relationships, and taking care of yourself in the process.

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Real Talk, Real families

What we write ourselves

Every article, lesson, and course module here starts as a blank page and one of us sitting in front of it. Kerry has spent decades as a therapist working with families in the middle of divorce. Palmer brings his own experience to the same problem. What you read is drawn from real sessions, real conversations, and real mistakes we have watched parents make and recover from. None of that can be generated. It has to be lived first and then written down.

When we tell a story about a client, that story happened. When we recommend a way to handle a handoff at the front door on a Sunday night, it is because we have watched it work.

Where AI actually helps

We use AI tools the way we use a good research assistant or a careful copy editor.

Research. Checking a statistic, finding a study we half remember, pulling together background on a custody arrangement we have not encountered before. We verify anything we publish against the original source, because these tools are confidently wrong often enough that we do not take their word for it.

Proofreading. Catching the typo, the sentence that runs on for four lines, the paragraph that made sense in our head and nowhere else.

Organizing. Sometimes we have forty minutes of talking about a topic and need help seeing the shape of it before we start writing.

Site and technical work. Behind the scenes, AI helps with the software that runs this site.

Where we do not use it

We do not have AI write our articles. We do not have it invent client stories or examples. We do not use it to answer questions that call for clinical judgment, and we do not let it stand in for the professional experience that is the reason you came here in the first place.

If you ever read something on this site and feel like nobody was home when it was written, tell us. That is a failure on our part, and we want to know about it.

Why we are telling you this

A lot of sites in this space have quietly handed their content to a machine and hoped nobody would notice. We are not interested in that, partly because it would be dishonest and partly because it would not work. Divorce is a hard, specific, personal thing. Generic advice does not help anybody through it.

We would rather tell you plainly how the sausage is made and let you decide whether to trust us.