How can help build relationships with my step children in a blended family?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Lisa and addresses the question, “How can help build relationships with my step children in a blended family?” After listening to the second episode of Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, Lisa wondered what she could do to help her blended family while they’re young to create a culture of unity. There is no perfect way to do this, every family is different and unique. The way we can show our family we care is by caring and making an effort.During this episode, Dr. Ha...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.4	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:42.9	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	Today I'm happy to welcome Lisa to the podcast. Welcome Lisa.
0:49.9	Hi. It's nice to be here. Thanks for being on the show.
0:56.2	Tell me what is your question for me today?
1:05.9	Okay, so a little while ago, I was listening to one of your first podcast episodes with, I believe her name was Tori.
1:13.4	And she was talking about her divorced parents and her family situation, sort of the stresses involved there. And it really resonated a lot with me, even though I am the stepmom in the
1:21.3	blended family situation, not the child in the blended family situation, but it felt like a lot of similarities. And when I was
1:31.3	listening to her, I just thought, gosh, like if this is us in 10 years, I'm going to feel really
1:38.2	sad that my stepkids are still feeling these feelings of being torn between their families.
1:46.7	And so I guess my question is, how do I as a stepmom and part of a blended family bring more
1:58.0	unity to everybody now while all the kids are still relatively young.
2:04.6	So that in 10 years, you know, we're not sort of having the same struggle of, you know,
2:12.4	being at moms or being at dads and feeling torn between two worlds.
2:17.1	Is there anything I can do now to help the kids
2:20.4	while they're young not have those feelings building and building and building over the years?
2:26.7	That's such a good question. I think the first thing that comes to mind is to make a commitment
2:32.3	to never say anything negative about their other,
2:35.7	about their other parent, either the one you're married to or their, their mom, because that
2:42.6	puts them in the middle. Right. And so just really making that commitment is,
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