All Episodes

116: Parenting Styles and Stepfamily Success

115. Parenting Smarter with Human Design - with Nina Cuellar-Barry

114. What Every Stepmom Needs to Know About Respect!

113. Feelings of Worthlessness And How To Bust Them.

112. Tammy Cohen: Text Messages To My Sons

111. Step-couple triggers with Dr. Jessica Higgins

110. The Magical Apology

109. Nail your timing.

108. This is the end of Parental Alienation.

107 You're not crazy - magic is real.

106 It smells like home!

105 The Alienated Stepmom

104. SURPRISE!

ESP 103 Nacho Role-play with Lori Sims (part 3)

ESP 102: Nacho Role-play with Lori Sims (Part 2)

ESP 101: "Nacho" role-play with Lori Sims (part one)

ESP 11.3 EPISODE 100! Part 3 of my chat with Seth Nelson about what really matters.

ESP 11.2 Attorney Seth Nelson: Should you settle for 60/40?

ESP 11.1 Divorce Attorney Seth Nelson

ESP 10.6 Anna De Acosta in conversation

ESP 10.5 The Loyalty Bind, and what to do about it.

ESP 10.4 What your therapist doesn't 'get' about your family.

ESP 10.3 Boundaries: The Bricks and Mortar Edition.

ESP 10.2 Why don't you have better boundaries?

ESP 10.1 Raising a step child on the Autism Spectrum with Dr. Sonia Cann-Milland

ESP 9.9 Peter Maestrey exposes the unspoken rule

ESP 9.8 Peter Maestrey on Divorce - The First Six Months

ESP 9.7 Reconciled - the book tour!

ESP 9.6 Greg Menendez on how the mind works

ESP 9.5 Jeff Hoffman and Jack Rollins: Visible Man, the Discord Server

ESP 9.4 "High Conflict" by Amanda Ripley

ESP 9.3 The Archives of Essential Stepmom Podcast

ESP 9.2 Q: "How do I merge the best parts of myself with my stepmom role?"

ESP 9.1 Change your expectations - into agreements!

ESP 8.7 When the ex won't play by the rules - with Jen Szeghi

ESP 8.6 Judith Yeabsley on kids who say NO!

ESP 8.5 Jonnie Jensen: dad, stepdad, superdad

ESP 8.4 How to find the sweet spot of stepparenting!

ESP 8.3 Carly Israel says "Thanks, but no thanks!"

ESP 8.2 Nurture Burnout with Anne Cullen

ESP 8.1 The teenage stepdaughter with Mary T. Kelly

ESP 7.8 How to Raise a Boy - with author Michael C. Reichert

ESP 7.7 The Addicted Child - with author Richard Capriola

ESP 7.6 Rich Bolus part 2 "Am I robbing them of these experiences?"

ESP 7.5 The Dad Mindset with Rich Bolus (part 1)

ESP 7.4 Best-of-Essential-Stepmom, Red Flags with Lori Sims

ESP 7.3 For the weary dad who feels like giving up.

ESP 7.2 A bit of "woo" - from me to you.

ESP 7.1 Not Just A Stepmom with Heidi Farrell

ESP 6.8 F_Divorce: Jack Rollins

ESP 6.7 The completely amazing, totally absent bio mom.

ESP 6.6 Trystan Reese Part 2

ESP 6.5 Trystan Reese shines a bright light on your secret fears (part 1 of 2)

ESP 6.4 Man the F_%@ Up! with Deuce Almightee

ESP 6.3 David Sims - Pulling it out of the fire

ESP 6.2 The Divorced Dad Diaries with Stephane Jutras

ESP 6.1 Visible Man with Jeffrey Hoffman

ESP 5.7 Are you panicking about college fees yet? Part 2 with Denise Thomas

ESP 5.6 Are you and your partner stressing (or fighting) over college fees yet? It's coming!

ESP 5.5 Kate Anthony talks First-Wife-Forever Syndrome!

ESP 5.4 The hidden cost of Parental Alienation

ESP 5.3 High Conflict: The Drama Behind Parental Alienation

ESP 5.2 It's the stepmoms who find the answers

ESP 5.1 Dorcy Pruter on healing the damage from Parental Alienation

ESP 4.6 Bobbi Brooks Wilcox on Reconciling and More

ESP 4.5 Bobbi Brooks Wilcox wrote the book on getting it wrong and turning it around.

ESP 4.4 How do you bond with a kid that wants nothing to do with you?

ESP 4.3 Go Blend Yourself: Busting More Stepfamily Myths

4.2 Busting Blended Family Myth #2

4.1 The Myth of the Blended Family

3.10 The Evil Stepmom Archetype: #notme

3.9 3 easy steps to conquering Guilty Parent Syndrome

3.8 Why feeling bad might be the best thing that ever happened to you [and to your stepkids].

ESP 3.7 Jessica Kuiken has help for your transition-day troubles.

ESP 3.6: Un-Brainwashing Your Alienated Child

ESP 3.5: Your Mother's Day Readiness Checklist

ESP 3.4: True Confessions: I've lost it on someone else's kids - more than once.

ESP 3.3 Five Fast Ways To Shake Off Negative Emotions

ESP 3.2 Join me for a little "self-care"!

ESP 3.1 Mothers In A Dangerous Time

ESP 2.21: Five Kinds of Stepmom Who DON'T Need to "NACHO"!

ESP 2.20 More with Tamasin Thomas on stopping those Matrimonial Money Fights!

The cure for picky eating [and BONUS: The cure for ANGST over picky eating!].

Confessions of a people-pleasing stepmom [and the 3 stages of a recovery-in-progress]

ESP 2.17 Stop the "Stepmom Spiral": 3 ways to conquer the habit pattern of negative thinking.

ESP 2.16: Who pays for what, and how is that working out for you?

ESP 2.15: For those days when you think you just suck at this.

ESP. 2.14 Dads, Kids and Consequences (and the 4-minute mile)

ESP 2.13 Dealing with Alienated Teens

ESP 2.12 Riffing on Brene Brown's "Dare To Lead"

ESP. 2.11 My Christmas Miracle + REPLAY: OVERSTEPPING

ESP 2.10 Something for your heart this holiday season

ESP 2.9 Disengaging For Beginners - 3 Easy Steps

ESP 2.8 On Being A Childless Stepmom

ESP 2.7 Five thousand desperate stepmoms Googled THIS phrase and found ME on YouTube!

ESP 2.6 Control Junkie No More!

ESP 2.5 Step-parent Burnout Syndrome

ESP 2.4 She wants her mom and dad to get back together...

ESP 2.3: The Heartbreak Of Feeling Invisible.

ESP 2.2 Duda Baldwin - Spiritual Teacher and Stepmom