STEPMOM

Along my professional path I encounter all kinds of inspirational resources that reaffirm my reasons for serving you the way I do.In the next few days, a revolutionary online summit will take place to help divorced people not only recover, by thrive after their divorce.  I’m honored to be a featured speaker and will address [...]

A friend bought a little manual that was entitled “How to Change Others”. After reading it, she wanted to ask for a refund: after all, the book was all about how to change herself! Instead of returning it, she got to thinking about the point the booklet was making. After all, how can we really [...]

Giving the children you love essential lessons about money has never been so important. In today’s economy, surrounded by negative news and people’s real despair, how can we give the next generation the skills and values they need to avoid the pitfalls and grow up financially safe and strong? Introducing The Magic Magpie, the new [...]

Sounds like a strange phrase “to ex”… but perhaps we should be thinking of “ex” as a verb.  A way of being in the “extended family” that includes your children’s other parent and his  partner.  Your child or children are now in a stepfamily, and now you are “the ex” in that extended family.  You [...]

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, [...]

Barbara Bruce is a well-known radio personality in the White Mountains, Arizona.  She hosts a variety of shows, including “The Cutting Edge”, which has a reach into The White Mountain area as well as greater Phoenix AZ.  Today the show airs on NewsTalk 970 KVWM and 1270 KDJI. It focuses on national, state and local [...]

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: Tuesday, Dec. [...]

The “You Are Not My Mother” contest has concluded, and I’d like to congratulate the two winners: Sherie Touchatt Cooper and Dawn Thomason! If you didn’t win and you have little ones, you’ll want this book for yourself too!  It’s available from Amazon; just click here.  The book will help you to deal in a [...]

Every stepmom has heard it, more than once: “You Are Not My Mother”. Dawn Yonally, PhD has written a delightful book, geared toward the 6-8 year old crowd, addressing this issue. She takes a humorous and disarming approach, and it is a valuable book to own and share with your young ones. It’s available from [...]