Essential Stepmom Podcast

What can I say? This is embarrassing but it's good for me to talk about it, and it's good for you to hear it because maybe by laughing *at* me (even if I feel like you're laughing *with* me), you can avoid repeating my mistakes! Join my Facebook community, which I police like a pit-bull to keep safe and 100% positive, by sending a join request to The Spectacular Stepmom. Personal support is availa...

Listen to Jack Kornfield's beautiful guided meditation on Broken Record Podcast. There is lots of support available also on his website jackkornfield.com. You can learn more about my coaching process and how to discover and deliver your special gifts by contacting me at info@essentialstepmom.com or booking a free discovery call at tracypoizner.bookafy.com

Come with me for a little walk. We'll talk about getting what you need during these extra difficult days. Visit my website at www.essentialstepmom.com If you'd like to hear my webinar where I shared suggestions from homeopaths around the world for treating symptoms of this virus, just send me an email at info@essentialstepmom.com I"m always up for a chat if you just need to hear a friendly voice....

Season 3: The Season of Coronavirus! You thought being a stepmom was the hardest thing you'd ever done? LOL - welcome to the new hardest thing ever! I'll share some advice about getting through this pandemic with your head on straight. Kim John Payne's Simplicity Parenting website is simplicityparenting.com Learn more about Juice Plus by following this link: http://suejohnson.canada.juiceplus.com...

Lori Wilkins Sims is my guest today. She's the originator of the Nacho Kids method. I challenged her to come up with some situations where it's not necessary to disengage from some aspects of raising your stepkids, and we had a lively conversation - some of it serious and some tongue in cheek. I challenged her to talk about the kinds of situations that would make a stepmom not need to follow...

Part 2 of a 3-part series with Tamasin Thomas, therapist and financial expert.  Grab her free e-book, 3 Steps to Resolving Financial Conflict from her website at tamasinthomas.com My book of Boredom Busters is also available at no cost during this challenging time - find it at essentialstepmom.com With all the "social distancing", I'm extra glad to hear from you. Reach out for a messenger cha...

CLICK BELOW to join my 4 day livestream video challenge from Monday March 9 to Thursday March 12, 2020. You can watch live, on replay or listen in audio only mode and download the tips and recipes too! bit.ly/stepmomtricks The book I mentioned is The Collapse of Parenting by Leonard Sax. Please come on over and join us on social media, if that's your jam. We're at The Spectacular Stepmom on Facebo...

What can I say? It's true, I'm a work in progress. Brene Brown's audio-book The Power of Vulnerability is available from her website, www.brenebrown.com Visit my website at www.essentialstepmom.com Join the Facebook group, The Spectacular Stepmom We have a group for your spouse called One For The Dads too! Got my free guide yet? Grab it here: Playing Hard To Like: 10 Challenging Stepkid Personalit...

Want my free gratitude journal template? Grab it here: bit.ly/123gratitude I love to hear from you - really, it just makes my day every time. You can find me at my personal email, info@essentialstepmom.com. If you'd like to chat, I encourage you to book a free 20-minute strategy session: BOOK A CALL WITH TRACY Learn more about me and my work at essentialstepmom.com Finally, I have a Facebook group...

Do you and your spouse ever argue about money? Does it drive you crazy that he spends too much on his kids, or that his ex is making poor choices with the child care payments coming out of your joint bank account? My guest Tamasin Thomas is a certified financial planner AND a certified therapist. She's also the host of a wonderful podcast called The Psychology of Money that you can find wherever y...

Everyone has days like this, I know I have had my share. Days when you think you just suck at being a stepmom and everything that's going wrong is your fault. I made a live video last year for my Facebook group, The Spectacular Stepmom and I decided to share it with you here. If you'd like to know more about Vipassana meditation, and how you can sign up to do a 10-day course like the one I'm at no...

There's a lesson we can all learn from the story of how Roger Bannister became the first human to run a mile in under 4 minutes, and especially from what happened next! The world is changing, family structures are changing and we need to change in order to keep to keep the orders of relationship inside our families intact. Here's a little piece of unconventional advice on that topic. Looking for a...

This is from a live video I made for my Facebook group called One For The Dads . If you'd like to join (and you're a biological dad) send a join request! If you're a stepmom and you're looking for a social media community, join us at The Spectacular Stepmom I'd love to hear from you! Reach out any time to my personal and private email account at info@essentialstepmom.com Please take a moment to ra...

If you don't know Brene Brown, just google her TED talk on vulnerability - it's had over 30 million views. She's the author of a number of fabulous books, but the one I'm working on right now is called Dare to Lead. I dare you to read it and not see every word of it as advice for you as the leader of your family project! You can listen to this book on Audible, and they'll give you a free month to...

Happy New Year to you, wherever in the world you're listening from. I am partway through a holiday experience unlike anything I've had in 13 years of blended family life. It took us a long time to get here, but that only makes me appreciate it more! If I can give you one single piece of advice, it would be about overstepping. In my opinion, that's  the number one challenge in stepmom world, s...

This is just a quick message about opening your heart, taking the high road and being the better person. It's the holidays, after all!

What do you know about Disengaging? Here's a "start where you are" guide to finding your way to better stepfamily relationships via a detour from the path you thought you were supposed to take! Connect with me at essentialstepmom.com. I'd love to hear from you!

In response to a listener request, I interviewed Sonia Richter - artist, stepmom and blogger. Sonia opened her personal struggle with childlessness to the public when she wrote a blog called Raw Brutal Honesty On Being a 44 Year Old Childless Stepmom Artist. You can read that at soniarichter.com I want to hear from you, especially if you resonate with this topic. Drop me a line at my personal and...

I was astonished to learn that one of my stepmom tutorial videos was outperforming the others by 100 to 1. What was so special about my message in that video that had stepmoms flocking in droves to watch it? Spoiler alert - it's about not liking your stepchild.  Grab my free download about dealing with problem kids here: PLAYING HARD TO LIKE: 10 CHALLENGING STEP KID PERSONALITIES AND HOW TO W...

I am a recovering control junkie and not afraid to admit it. I now get my fix minding my own business and controlling the only thing I really can, which is my own actions, and my reactions to things. Anna de Acosta has a similar story although all the parts of our journey are unique to our own experiences and circumstances. I'm excited for you to hear her story, one that led her back from 6 years...

I am acquainted with burnout, like many other high performing women. I've burned out once as a wife and once as a stepmom. Luckily, I've been developing a rich support network around me to help me cope so that I don't get all the way to burn out ever again. One of my most important supporters is Tania Heinemann, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Lactation Consultant - really sorry I...

...and other cute things stepkids say. In this episode, I chat with Tania Heinemann who I invited onto the podcast to talk about recovering from burnout and specifically about healing adrenal fatigue. Fortunately, we got carried away with a discussion about her family, how her kids are coping with loss, her co-parenting relationship with her ex, and their parenting dynamic with her new husband, th...

Do you feel invisible sometimes? Like, your stepchild acts as if you don't exist? Or your parenting input to your spouse is ignored? And what about a biomom who doesn't acknowledge all that you do for her child? This episode is for you! We'll talk about the difference between FEELING invisible and actually BEING invisible - taking charge of your own presence to decide for yourself when you can ach...

Duda Baldwin is the creator of the Little School of Buddhism and she's a life coach who brings a spiritual edge to learning to crush your goals while staying true to yourself.  You can learn more about Duda at kickassmuse.com . Tracy's articles have been published in ThriveGlobal, Medium and Elephant Journal. Send your comments or questions to her via info@essentialstepmom.com. If you're not...

This is about your stepmom tribe, your dream team, your support network. We're going to design your very own dream team on this episode and by the end you'll know exactly who your team members are, where they're hiding and how to get exactly what you need from them. Here are links for the resources I mentioned in this episode: Nacho Kids Academy Susan Stiffelman Essential Stepmom Session Group s -...