The Brief Blended Blueprint 

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Blending a family is extraordinarily challenging because of the unexpected and unfamiliar dynamics.  Dynamics that are normal for blended families, but feel wrong when compared to the first family experience. 


The Brief Blended Blueprint goes over each of the eight stages of blended family development, what is to be expected in each stage, unspoken pressures and possible expectations, specific stage challenges and includes worksheets for each stage and each blended family member to work through.

Help Your Blended Family Thrive

Psychoeducation is the number one intervention for blended families.

Understand Your Family's Stage of Blending

Learn What Helps In Each Stage of Blending

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The Blended Blueprint Series

The Blended Blueprint series was created to help blended families find a better, easier way of walking the challenging path to feeling like a cohesive family unit.  Concepts like the Insider/Outsider dynamic with the stepparent feeling like an outsider, Loyalty Binds where children get stuck feeling like they have to choose sides, and even how ADHD may affect relating and relationships. 


Get your Blueprint for building your blended family and understand the differences and nuances that are shaping family interactions and throwing things awry.  


Knowledge is power. Help your blended family gain strength and compassion to raise the chances of successful blending. 

The Premarital Blended Blueprint

Premarital counseling for blended families increases the chance of success by 23 percent.

The Complete Blended Blueprint

Blended Families are complicated. Learn everything therapists are taught about blended families: basic psychology concepts, influence of personality dynamics, potential complicators of blending, the eight stages of blended family development, the differences between first families and blended families, and ideas to help you become an expert on your blended family.

The Brief Blended Blueprint

Blending is tougher than you anticipated and things feel...well...rough. Get just the essentials - the eight stages of blending: start learning whats happening, what family members are experiencing, and suggestions to help improve relating.

Children feel the affects of divorce and remarriage more than the adults do. My children's book, Blended Bree, can help explain the transition and help organize your child's experience. 

Blended Bree - A  Child's Discovery of Blended Families.
Blended Bree - An Imaginative Story to Help Find a New Normal Amidst Family Changes.  

Chosen to be read by Cynthia Whitbred-Spanoulis, Executive Director of the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center as part of Read Across America 2024 "Celebrating a Nation of Diverse Readers."

"...Having resources like your book are incredibly helpful in giving our daughters examples of children like them. They are really getting a lot from it, so thank you very much for helping our kids feel less alone."

- Shaine T.

Seattle, WA

"This book has so much information, in a short number of pages, and is written in a way that children (and adults) will understand. Not only is it great for those children entering, or already in, a blended family scenario, but it should be read by all children...Thank you for sharing Bree’s experiences!!"

- Mark B.

Chicago, IL 

"This book have so much insight. It is written in a way that makes it a perfect read with your child. It opens up for further talks and reflections for both child and parent on this area. It is a good book for teachers to add to their classroom library."

- Ragnhild G.

Norway

"This book is the perfect read, not just for blended families, but really for all families and of course, children. It provides such a warm feeling of acceptance and interconnectedness between loved ones in a way I have yet to experience while reading any children's book. A must read. "

- Alyson F.

Los Angeles, CA

Helping Blended Families 

 Psychotherapy for all types of Couples and Individuals Struggling in Relationships.

Specialty in Blended Families

 Blended Family Coaching 

Online Blended Family Self-Study Courses

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Be Intentional

Grow Together

Progress through the Stages

Develop Bonds

Feel Connected

The Blended Blueprint 

Series 

The Master Blended Blueprint

For licensed professionals looking close the education gap between the nuances and differences first families and first family couples have, from the norms of becoming a blended family and the challenges and underlying dynamics blended family couples face. 

The Complete Blended Blueprint

Learn what the professionals know and become your own expert on the challenges of blended family life.  Understand the many psychological factors influencing underlying dynamics and why, exactly, are blended families so complicated.  Attachment styles, parenting differences, and the eight stages of blended family development.


What to expect: 

- Discover what truly makes blended families so complicated.


- Learn distress tolerance for the challenging early stages of development.


- Understand and accept the Insider/Outsider dynamic and how it affects the stepparent, bio-parent and children.


- Learn about the Eight Stages of Blended Family Development.


- Learn what's normal and when to seek professional help.


- Understand your own emotional journey.


- Gain compassion (the glue for blended families) of other family members' experiences.


- Utilize worksheets to help clarify roles, boundaries, loyalty binds and realign expectations.

The Premarital Blended Blueprint.

This is a six week mini-course will help get you in the mindset of blended family thinking and help start your journey off on the right foot.


What to expect:

- Week 1: Learn about how blended families begin, the differences between blended families and first families and how to start of strong in your blended marriage.


- Week 2: Learn about the eight stages of blended family development, the hidden pressures, unknown expectations, goals, roles, boundaries and the insidious Insider/Outsider dynamic. 


- Week 3: Learn more nuances about the most challenging time for blended families,  the early stages of development, and discover how to avoid becoming a Frozen  blended family. 


- Week 4: Expand your knowledge of the middle stages of development. 


- Week 5: Expand your knowledge of the late stages of blended family development, and a the final stage of Revival that only some blended families need.


- Week 6: Learn about the complications to blended family development. 

The Brief Blended Blueprint

This is just the essentials. Learn about the eight stages of blended family development, what's normal and what to do in each stage of development. 


What to expect: 

- Overview of the Eight Stages of Blended Family Development.


- Learn what's normal and when to seek professional help.


- Understand your own emotional journey.


- Gain compassion (the glue for blended families) of other family members' experiences.


- Utilize worksheets to help clarify roles, boundaries and loyalty binds. 

ADHD and Blended Relating - COMING SOON.

ADHD can have an effect on marriages and relationships, especially within a blended family situation where bonds of trust are needing to grow. Learn to spot the symptoms and how they unintentionally get in the way of good intentions and building relationships.

The Teenage Turnaround - 

COMING SOON

What is happening? The stepparent has had a great relationship with their stepchild, they've been there for them since they were young: parenting, loving, caring and now "You're not my REAL parent," is their household mantra.  What happened?  What do you do?  The Teenage Turnaround is real, find your footing amidst the new confusion.

The Brief Blended Blueprint
Orient yourself to the norms of blended family life.
- Insiders/Outsiders
- Loyalty Binds
- To Discipline or not Discipline
- Eight Stages of Blended Family
   Development.
Increase your chances for successful blending.
- Understanding eases the discomfort of the early stages and awkward home life.
- Orient to a new type of family system, and find your place in the family.
- Understand what can help and what can hinder blended family development. 
- Learn to shape a more peaceful home and keep long-term goals in mind.
- Learn how to give your partner the support they need versus the support you think they need.
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