Find your strength.
Begin your rise.
High-conflict separation doesn't end when you walk out the door. The legal battle, the hostile texts, the kids caught in the middle-it keeps coming. Year One™ is a 10-week group coaching program that helps you stay functional, informed, and strategic while you're still in the thick of it.
Strength isn’t found.
It’s built slowly, painfully, bravely.
This isn't a normal divorce.
If you're in the first year of high-conflict separation, you already know that.
He's still controlling the situation—through your kids, through the courts, through a text at 11pm that hijacks your entire nervous system.
You need more than emotional support. You need to understand how the legal system works, why your body is reacting the way it is, and how to communicate in a way that protects you.
That's what Motion to Rise was built for.
A Glimpse into Motion
What Guides Our Work:
Clinician-Led. Not Generic Coaching.
Stacy Bednar is a licensed psychotherapist (MA, LPCC) and a survivor of high-conflict separation. She brings clinical depth and lived experience to every session—not a certification course and a script.
Small Group. Real Accountability.
Year One™ cohorts are limited to 6–10 women. You're not anonymous. You're known, tracked, and supported by people going through the same phase of the same thing.
Strategy, Not Just Support.
This isn't about processing your feelings. It's about learning how the legal system works, how to communicate under pressure, and how to stop letting his chaos run your life.
Strength Isn’t
What You Think
We don’t teach willpower.
We don’t teach positivity.
We don’t ask you to “just try harder.”
We teach you to stay regulated when life doesn’t cooperate.
We teach you how to communicate without escalation.
We teach you how to stop internalizing chaos that isn’t yours.
We teach you how to rediscover your voice, your clarity, and your power.
We teach you the skills to stand up in life, in relationships, and in courtrooms.
We teach you to RISE.
Apply for Year One™
A Structured Cohort for Women in High-Conflict Separation
Weekly 90-minute live virtual sessions
Small group of 6–10 women
Two guest expert sessions included
Clinician-led by Stacy Bednar, MA, LPCC
HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE & SEPARATION
NARCISSITIC OR EMOTIONALLY UNSAFE RELATIONSHIPS
POST-SEPARATION ABUSE
Bring what's real. We'll build from there.
For Law Firms
& Legal Teams
High-conflict divorce cases demand more than legal skill.
They demand emotional stabilization.
Motion to Rise partners with law firms to:
-Reduce crisis communication
-Improve client credibility
-Prepare clients for mediation & testimony
-Decrease attorney burnout
-Strengthen case outcomes
-Lower risk of client escalation or bar complaints
Your legal team works best when your clients are regulated, prepared, and supported.
How Motion to Rise Supports You
For Individuals
Year One™ is a 10-week group coaching program for women in high-conflict separation. Strategy, nervous system education, and communication tools — while you're still in the legal process.
For Legal Teams
Motion to Rise works with family law attorneys and CDFAs as a referral partner. Your clients get structured support. You get calmer, more strategic clients who show up prepared.
Your Rise Starts Today.
Who's leading
Year One™
Stacy Bednar is a licensed professional clinical counselor (MA, LPCC) with 19+ years of clinical experience and founder of Motion to Rise™.
She is also a survivor of high-conflict separation, high-conflict divorce, and separation abuse.
She has navigated the hostile texts, the weaponized custody exchanges, the nervous system collapse, the financial anxiety, 6.5 years of court processes in Family Court (the Court of Appeals-twice, Arbitration, Prenup law, Emergency (Ex Parte) hearings, contempt hearings, two decree versions, and received full legal and physical custody all while showing up as a credible, composed parent while the legal process ran its course.
Through it all, she has come out stronger, with an intense drive to help others do the same.
She built Year One™ because she needed it and it didn't exist.
Stacy Bednar, MA, LPCC—Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor | High-Conflict Coach
16+ years clinical practice
Specialized training in trauma, anxiety, nervous system regulation, coercive control, narcissistic personalities and abuse, and high-conflict dynamics
Founder: Motion to Rise™ and Therapy Outfitters, Inc.
Wayzata, MN
Year One™ is a coaching and psychoeducation program. It is not therapy and does not create a therapist-client relationship. Participants are encouraged to work with a licensed therapist alongside the program.
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