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Summary Dorcy Pruter is the founder and CEO of the Conscious Coparenting Institute. She runs a 4 day intensive workshop called High Road to Reunification that boast a stunning 100% success rate! Learn more about her work at: Conscious Co-Parenting Institute Home Dorcy has prepared a free e-book called “Stepping In: The Step-parents’ Guide ForContinue reading “ESP 5.1 Dorcy Pruter on healing the damage from Parental Alienation”

Summary Blended Families United is Bobbi’s website and organization. Her work centres around helping couples who are planning or just starting their stepfamily journey. Her book Reconciled is available from Amazon. Yes, I offer personal coaching for stepmoms and focused support for families struggling with parental alienation, manipulation or brainwashing. Reach out for a chatContinue reading “ESP 4.6 Bobbi Brooks Wilcox on Reconciling and More”

Summary You can find Bobbi’s website at blendedfamiliesunited.com and her book “Reconciled” is available from Amazon. Try the Nacho Kids Academy at no risk for a month and support this podcast at the same time by using this link: NachoKidsAcademy.com/theessentialstepmom Grab my free download 3 Secrets of Successful Stepmoms from my website at essentialstepmom.com —Continue reading “ESP 4.5 Bobbi Brooks Wilcox wrote the book on getting it wrong and turning it around.”

Summary It’s actually pretty simple: you bond around the fact that they don’t want to connect with you! I’ll explain how it looked in my family and how it worked out for us. Spoiler alert: Happy Ending! Check out the Nacho Kids Academy with this link to support this podcast with a portion of yourContinue reading “ESP 4.4 How do you bond with a kid that wants nothing to do with you?”

Summary This is my new go-to comeback for anyone who wants to give me unsolicited advice about my stepfamily dynamics. They can try whatever they like on their own family! Visit my website at essentialstepmom.com Join my Facebook community by sending a join request to The Spectacular Stepmom — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/essentialstepmom/message

Summary Myth #2 is that Blended Families are forever families. Truth is, they unblend just the same as other stepfamilies do. What can we do to make our families stand the test of time, despite messed up custody schedules, high conflict personalities, loyalty issues and more? Listen up and we’ll get started. Visit me atContinue reading “4.2 Busting Blended Family Myth #2”

Summary I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that stepfamilies aren’t required to blend. They have a much more noble mission in my opinion, which is to “mend”. When you shift your focus, everything could change for your family. The book I mentioned is Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach. VisitContinue reading “4.1 The Myth of the Blended Family”

Summary Do you feel like you’re walking around wearing a heavy backpack that you can’t take off? I don’t know about you but I hate it that the idea of a stepmother is automatically linked to an image of someone not so nice.  I’ll share some thoughts about how we can change that dynamic. TheContinue reading “3.10 The Evil Stepmom Archetype: #notme”

Summary Is your partner struggling with guilty parent syndrome? Here’s help in 3 easy steps. Grab my free cheat sheet: 100% Dad In Half The Time Interested in hanging out on social with some other dads in the blended family dynamic? Send a join request to my Facebook community, One For The Dads . ItContinue reading “3.9 3 easy steps to conquering Guilty Parent Syndrome”

Summary Join my email community by sending an email to info@essentialstepmom.com with the subject line EMAIL! Here’s where you can find the podcast episode of “Unruffled” with Janet Lansbury: UNRUFFLED – listen here Follow Susan David here: SUSAN DAVID’S WEBSITE …plus,  her TEDTALK is linked here! Visit my website at essentialstepmom.com and email me atContinue reading “3.8 Why feeling bad might be the best thing that ever happened to you [and to your stepkids].”