Summary This is a quick primer on a complex topic. I’m thinking about doing a full webinar about healing a brainwashed child – if you’re interested in hearing about that, or have anything to contribute to the discussion, please shoot me a message at info@essentialstepmom.com OR, just book a 20-minute phone chat, I’d love toContinue reading “ESP 3.6: Un-Brainwashing Your Alienated Child”
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ESP 3.5: Your Mother’s Day Readiness Checklist
Summary Brace for it – the whole world is getting ready to poke you in a very sensitive spot. Here’s how to prepare. Don’t forget, Stepmom Day is Sunday May 17th – put it in big letters on the family calendar and let them know what kind of activity to surprise you with! Visit meContinue reading “ESP 3.5: Your Mother’s Day Readiness Checklist”
ESP 3.4: True Confessions: I’ve lost it on someone else’s kids – more than once.
Summary What can I say? This is embarrassing but it’s good for me to talk about it, and it’s good for you to hear it because maybe by laughing *at* me (even if I feel like you’re laughing *with* me), you can avoid repeating my mistakes! Join my Facebook community, which I police like aContinue reading “ESP 3.4: True Confessions: I’ve lost it on someone else’s kids – more than once.”
ESP 3.3 Five Fast Ways To Shake Off Negative Emotions
Summary Listen to Jack Kornfield’s beautiful guided meditation on Broken Record Podcast. There is lots of support available also on his website jackkornfield.com. You can learn more about my coaching process and how to discover and deliver your special gifts by contacting me at info@essentialstepmom.com or booking a free discovery call at tracypoizner.bookafy.com — SendContinue reading “ESP 3.3 Five Fast Ways To Shake Off Negative Emotions”
ESP 3.2 Join me for a little “self-care”!
Summary Come with me for a little walk. We’ll talk about getting what you need during these extra difficult days. Visit my website at http://www.essentialstepmom.com If you’d like to hear my webinar where I shared suggestions from homeopaths around the world for treating symptoms of this virus, just send me an email at info@essentialstepmom.com I”mContinue reading “ESP 3.2 Join me for a little “self-care”!”
ESP 3.1 Mothers In A Dangerous Time
Summary Season 3: The Season of Coronavirus! You thought being a stepmom was the hardest thing you’d ever done? LOL – welcome to the new hardest thing ever! I’ll share some advice about getting through this pandemic with your head on straight. Kim John Payne’s Simplicity Parenting website is simplicityparenting.com Learn more about Juice PlusContinue reading “ESP 3.1 Mothers In A Dangerous Time”
3 Ways To Help Your Spouse Follow Through With His Kids
There’s a refrain I hear pretty often in comments from stepmoms in my Facebook group, The Spectacular Stepmom. Their partner has agreed to do something, usually around discipline, rules, schedules or schoolwork, but somehow he never follows through and nothing changes. When this happens, it’s easy to get emotional because it feels like you’re being ignoredContinue reading “3 Ways To Help Your Spouse Follow Through With His Kids”
ESP 2.21: Five Kinds of Stepmom Who DON’T Need to “NACHO”!
Summary Lori Wilkins Sims is my guest today. She’s the originator of the Nacho Kids method. I challenged her to come up with some situations where it’s not necessary to disengage from some aspects of raising your stepkids, and we had a lively conversation – some of it serious and some tongue in cheek. I challengedContinue reading “ESP 2.21: Five Kinds of Stepmom Who DON’T Need to “NACHO”!”
ESP 2.20 More with Tamasin Thomas on stopping those Matrimonial Money Fights!
Summary Part 2 of a 3-part series with Tamasin Thomas, therapist and financial expert. Grab her free e-book, 3 Steps to Resolving Financial Conflict from her website at tamasinthomas.com My book of Boredom Busters is also available at no cost during this challenging time – find it at essentialstepmom.com With all the “social distancing”, I’mContinue reading “ESP 2.20 More with Tamasin Thomas on stopping those Matrimonial Money Fights!”
You Can Stop Trying To Love Your Stepkids As Your Own
Let me be clear: I love my step kids very much. They add so much joy and light to my life I can’t imagine where I would be without them. However, I don’t love them as though they were my kids and I were their mother. I’m NOT their mother. Not only that, but IContinue reading “You Can Stop Trying To Love Your Stepkids As Your Own”
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