About RESCET™

The RESCET™ Origin Story

Lauren and Ayelet met through their children, who became fast friends at the age of three. Years later, both found themselves facing the unraveling of their marriages, each navigating a similar landscape of uncertainty, exhaustion, and grief.

When Ayelet and her husband, Doron, separately sought advice from divorce attorneys, one lawyer told Doron, who was considering a new marriage therapist, "Face it. Your marriage is over." He meant well. Divorce lawyers get you divorced; they do not help you understand what broke or how to move through it. They also do not carry the emotional or financial fallout that families do.

In one of those moments, Ayelet said to Lauren: "This is so dehumanizing. I just want someone to shake us into seeing one another. What if there were a better way to do this?"

While Ayelet and Doron could sense they were being pulled toward an adversarial system that would inflame conflict long before resolving it, Lauren had managed to navigate her own divorce with empathy and clarity. Drawing from her years as a family litigator, she found a way to separate peacefully, focusing on understanding rather than blame.

With the help of the very therapist that lawyer had dismissed, Ayelet and Doron found their way back to one another and to a deeper understanding than they had ever known. As Esther Perel says, "Most of us will have four or five different marriages in our lifetime. Hopefully most of them are to the same person."

Over many late-night conversations, RESCET™ was born. It is not a process to stay or to leave, but a way to move through relational change with honesty, intelligence, and respect. Some people divorce. Some do not. But however it unfolds — let us do it properly. That is what RESCET™ is about.