Episode 92: Becoming The Essential Stepmom with Tracy Poizner
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking about all things step-parenting. Tracy Poizner, the founder of the Essential Stepmom Podcast, joins me to explore this topic. Tracy and I discuss becoming a step-mom, how to prepare yourself if your ex-husband introduces a stepmother into your child's life, and how to create an environment for your children to feel safe and loved within their newly formed blended family.
Show Highlights
- It can take up to seven years to settle into being a step-parent. (3:11)
- Some advice for women preparing to become a step-mom. (5:30)
- How to blend house rules between bio children and step-children. (15:05)
- So, there's a new woman in your ex's life: Tracy talks about how to prepare for this new situation of sharing your children with another woman. (26:03)
- Recognize this is a place of growth for you, love is not a finite thing - your children will never have less love for you because they have a step-mom in their life. (30:47)
- We discuss family constellation therapy and the orders of love. (32:00)
Learn More About Tracy Poizner:
Tracy is the host of the weekly Essential Stepmom podcast, heard in 54 countries worldwide where she offers unconventional advice and inspiration for The Womanly Art of Raising Someone Else's Kids. Having been a stepmom for 14 years and an alternative healthcare professional for over 20 years, she has a special perspective on emotional healing and how to meet our own personal needs as stepmoms in the everyday chaos of this challenging lifestyle. Tracy's blog is available at her website, essentialstepmom.com.
Resources & Links:
Tracy's Private Facebook Group
Download Tracy's 3 Secrets of Successful Stepmoms
The Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
Should I Stay or Should I Go Facebook Group
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of |
| 0:23.3 | the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. I've been to |
| 0:29.1 | hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process |
| 0:35.1 | with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | This is your temporary MC Darlene. |
| 0:50.5 | Now, if you're new to the podcast series, I just did want to be clear and let you know that |
| 0:55.8 | Kate Anthony is the host creator and founder of the podcast. I'm her podcast editor, |
| 1:02.5 | and over the last few weeks, I've been stepping in. So today, the episode is brand new and |
| 1:08.6 | includes a conversation between Kate and her guest Tracy Poisoner. |
| 1:12.7 | More about that in one moment. But first, if you're missing your weekly dose of Kate or looking |
| 1:18.8 | for a community of women, considering whether they should stay or go in their marriage. |
| 1:24.8 | There are a few ways you can get further support and connect with Kate and other |
| 1:29.1 | like-minded women. First, you can follow and connect with Kate over on Instagram and you can find |
| 1:35.4 | her at the Divorce Survival Guide or you can join Kate's free Facebook community. You can find that |
| 1:42.7 | by just going to Facebook.com and searching for |
| 1:45.4 | the group, should I stay or should I go? And we'll be sure to include both links in this episode's |
| 1:52.6 | show notes, which you can conveniently find on Kate's website at kateanthony.com. All right. Now that all of the housekeeping items are set, |
| 2:03.9 | let's jump into this week's episode. This week, Kate is joined by guest Tracy Poisoner, |
| 2:10.0 | and they are talking all about being a stepmom. Tracy is the founder of the Essential Stepmom |
| 2:16.4 | Podcast. And in this episode, Kate and Tracy cover the founder of the Essential Stepmom podcast. |
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