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We have compiled a comprehensive list of topics you may wish to address during mediation or the divorce process when it comes to custody.

Leadership is motivating your family towards a common goal. It may sound arbitrary if you have no idea where you're going.

How you deal with perceptions determines your character. When you act out in a way that's harmful driven by jealousy, there's a problem.

With Mother's Day rapidly approaching the step mother blues about it have consumed my social media and I have something to say about it.

I often get asked what should be considered before you officially blend your family with someone else's. Love is not enough.

This is the time where we actually have time to focus on relationships, and I could not think of anything more important or fulfilling.

Meet the Trytsman family everyone! They are a blended family of six with a powerful and encouraging message for us all. Enjoy!

"We know that all of the negativity and noise will be exposed in due time and on it's own if we just stay the course and speak our truth."

It's a new year, so let's talk "change". One of my husband's favorite sayings is, "Don't be sorry, change!". This annoys me to no end...

Proverbs 4:23 NIV: "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." These are probably the most useful words of...

Being on both sides myself, I'd like to take a moment in time and just acknowledge each side of the parent/step-parent coin. Both are equal

We are so full of excitement and hope in the beginning of a relationship, especially if we are trying to revive our love life after divorce.

I wish our co-parenting skills would mature into mutual respect, but it seems we are forever stuck living and operating in the land of toxic

I was put on notice that I was making the situation ALL ABOUT ME and not about my child at all. STOP IT. MIND BLOWN.

Release yourself from the notion that households are in competition with each other; we are all doing the best we can with what we have...

Unmet expectations are the kiss of death in your marriage and in your blended family! Even worse than unmet expectations is the total...

This is not going to be a super fun blog entry, but a necessary one. Exes are here to stay, so we better learn how to best navigate this...

I want to share with you a picture painted for me recently by my husband that rocked my world; it made me rethink my position in the...

It takes a village to raise up kids. When you expand your village by way of remarriage and blending families, this concept needs to be...