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    Making a Clean Break When It's Over
    “This time it’ll be different.” “Let’s give it one more try.” “I’ve really changed.” Are you suspicious when you hear these promises? But you still can’t get him out of your system? Here is your smart guide to staying away from a bad relationship or a manipulative ex.
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    Learn which tactics your Ex is using to railroad you into coming back. Know their tactics and avoid their traps.
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Kristin Carmichael, Author & Counselor

Kristin has spent more than a decade working with women remaking their lives after bad and abusive relationships. X That Ex is the culmination of more than a decade’s experience. She holds an MBA and LISW.

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Kristin Carmichael at Advocacy in Action 2013 - Kristin Carmichael was a keynote speaker at the 2013 Advocacy in Action 2013 conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico in May 2013. Her notes from her session on Domestic Violence Impacts on Health Care are below.
Kristin Carmichael at TEDxABQWomen - X That Ex author Kristin Carmichael was a featured speaker at TEDxABQWomen in December 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. TEDxABQWomen is an offshoot of the main TED movement where innovative and visionary thinkers are brought together in conferences around the world to give short, insightful presentations that share a single idea in depth with live [...]
Kristin Carmichael on “The Safety Net” a Screening Procedure for Abuse in Medical Settings - Presentation by X That Ex author Kristin Carmichael of CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center on the Safety Net program to the Santa Fe Coordinated Community Response Council (CCRC) on January 16, 2013.  The Safety Net Program was developed by the CCRC Medical Action Team.
Domestic Violence Month: An Interview with X That Ex Author Kristin Carmichael - This item originally ran in the Santa Fe Reporter the week of Oct. 24, 2012. By Alexa Schirtzinger Since October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, SFR spent some time interviewing Kristin Carmichael, the domestic violence specialist at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Carmichael, the former residential shelter manager at Esperanza Shelter and author of [...]
X That Ex gives advice for ending bad relationships - If you are unhappy in your relationship, sometimes you can’t help but think about leaving — even if just considering it makes you feel guilty. You might think that if you make your partner feel special every day, cook better meals or make him (or her) less angry, then everything will be fine. Won’t leaving him be the same as giving up? You wonder if you can persuade him to go to therapy or stop drinking or stop spending every second he can at work. But finally, after you’ve gone through every excuse to stay, one day you just do it. You make the break-up call. You pack your bags and go. You leave a note or you don’t. The hard part is over, you think. “Now, I am free.”
X That Ex Book Signing in Santa Fe - Fans of Kristin Carmichael and her book X That Ex joined the author at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe on October 26. Carmichael answered questions from an excited and enthusiastic crowd at the downtown bookseller and signed copies of the book.
X That Ex Featured on Popular Television Show New Mexico Style - X That Ex and author Kristin Carmichael were featured Oct. 1 on New Mexico Style. Kristin appeared as part of the show’s desire to highlight Domestic Violence Awareness month and was joined by Esperanza Shelter’s Peggy Luplow. Kristin had served as part of the team at Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families in Santa Fe, where [...]
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