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Another “Ask the Expert” Day will be sponsored by Stepmom Magazine this Thursday, July 29.  I’ll be on the expert panel along with a number of other top professionals in the field of stepfamily relations.  The last “Ask the Experts” Day was tremendously successful, and we received so many comments and “thank you’s” from stepmoms, [...]

Badmouthing = critical, spiteful remarks about you to your stepchildren or your spouse. If you are on the receiving end of this practice by your husband’s ex, or by your ex, you know the feeling all too well.  Anger, frustration, helplessness – you are not there to defend yourself against comments that aren’t true.  And [...]

A national adolescent conference is coming up in September:  Treating the iGeneration.  I’ll be presenting about moving from divorce to a healthy stepfamily.  The title of my talk is “Mine Yours Ours: From Divorce to Healthy Stepfamily”. The conferences is being sponsored by Ben Franklin Institute on Sept 15-17 at the Paradise Valley Resort in [...]

Barbara Bruce hosts a weekly radio show for the White Mountains, AZ area and also for greater Phoenix AZ, called “Believe”.  Here’s how she describes it: I focus on health, mental and physical, on the spiritual and on success. The best way to show others these principles is to bring on people who espouse these [...]

Susan Swanson is the founder of the Stepfamily Center, which serves the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills area.   She is a stepfamily therapist, and stepmom and mom herself.  Susan  hosts a superb, informative weekly radio show for stepfamily members.  Joan Sarin, MS was the guest on the show, and here’s the link: April 27th, [...]