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Jayna, you are so empathetic and understanding. I love it that you are "in the know" -- up-to-date on latest teachings and philosophies in various fields and endeavors. You also know "who to know"- either knowing or having access to great resources in various fields (doctors, psychologists, clergy, attorneys, etc.)
--Eydie

First, she was a single parent.

The Bridge Across founder Jayna Haney became a divorced mother at age 34 (after 11 years of marriage) with 2 small children. She needed help.

Who was she now?

How did she deal with the frustrations and challenges of single parenting?

How did she work with her ex-spouse? How did she manage her emotions?

How did she address all the new issues in her life?

Where were the tools?  What did she need to learn?

With a voracious appetite for learning and challenged by her changing life, Jayna set forth to learn everything she could about healthy single parent families, and a satisfying life for herself.

With two-thirds of Americans living in a single-parent or step-family situation, surely there were programs she could take, seminars she could attend, or a toolkit she could find?

But there wasn’t much out there.

With a vision in her head of how she wanted her life and her family life to be (but she didn’t know how to get there), she started learning as much as she could about single parenting, being a single adult, and family life.

She collected resources- books, tape series, articles, met with psychologists, vented to friends and family- and she pieced together different strategies and tools she found along the way. She worked hard and was able to form a happy single parent family life.

Then, she got remarried.

When she remarried, a whole new set of different challenges came.

Her family now consisted of a new husband, stepchildren and a busier household as well as the relationships with their ex-spouses.

As she worked to learn about and deal with her new roles and family, her life and her family’s changed again – her ex-husband got remarried and her husband’s ex-wife got remarried. There was suddenly an extended network of people who were involved in her and her children’s lives. It felt like they were all intertwined to make her crazy!

Where were the tools?  What did she need to learn?

So Jayna did it again. She started searching for answers.

She couldn’t find much that helped with her particular situations. The truth is, she had so much fear, uncertainty, pain, anger and frustration, she didn’t think there was any way she could make it to the “other side” where she could find peace and happiness in her life.

With a new vision in her head of how she wanted her life and stepfamily life to be, she started the process of learning everything she could from different resources.

After years of struggling, she and her husband, Mike, have created a satisfying life, a loving marriage, and a successful stepfamily.

Along the way, she realized that there were many, many other people who struggled like she did. 

But you don’t have to….

The Bridge Across gives you practical tools and skills that will improve your family life within days.

Build a thriving family. Parent with confidence. Create a life you love. We
can show you how.