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Essential Stepmom Mar 9, 2021

ESP 8.3 Carly Israel says “Thanks, but no thanks!”

Summary You can find Carly at carlyisrael.com and her podcast is called In Your Corner Divorce. Her book, Seconds and…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 2, 2021

ESP 8.2 Nurture Burnout with Anne Cullen

Nurture burnout can happen to anyone who cares a lot about the people they live with, or work with or share the planet…

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Essential Stepmom Feb 23, 2021

ESP 8.1 The teenage stepdaughter with Mary T. Kelly

Mary Kelly is probably the most experienced therapist in America for stepfamilies and their kids with over 18 years of…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 29, 2020

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…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 9, 2020

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…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 9, 2020

The Road To “I’ve Got This!”

This is about getting to where you feel like you know what you’re doing, where things are starting to come more…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 9, 2020

Burning out, stepmom? Come over to my house.

Remember the 3 Little Pigs? Of course you do. We all grew up learning why we should mock the one who decides to build…

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Essential Stepmom Mar 9, 2020

A Walk For All Reasons

Part One If you don’t already love to walk, I think that you should learn to love it. Going for a walk outside together,…

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