Stepfamilies Require Different Strategies for Success

This blog is specifically for MFTs and Coaches who work with couples who head a stepfamily.  Earn 9 CEs  from CAMFT for  attending Success Strategies for Stepfamilies Seminar! This ONLINE course will be offered once per month for the next year beginning May 1-3,...

But I want…I need…You should…

Although my first marriage only lasted 4 ½ years due to the untimely death of my husband, it lasted long enough for me to begin to learn some important life lessons. JG was a good man.  He worked hard, loved his job, turned his pay over to me and never questioned how...

Is it Groundhog day in your relationship?

Ken and Kim had been having the same fight, over and over again, for thirty years.  Can you relate?  He does (or doesn’t do) something, she says…., he reacts defensively, she brings up previous examples of how he’s failed her, he counters with...

No thanks! I can do it!

Our American culture highly values independence…self-sufficiency…resourcefulness.  Lately there’s been a trend toward living more simply—tiny-houses, living off of the grid, etc. There’s no doubt that gaining appropriate independence is an essential growth marker to...