OUTTA THE BLENDER

OUTTA THE BLENDER

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🥴 Stuck in the messy middle part of stepparenting
🐛 caterpillar → ?? 🤷🏻‍♀️ ?? → butterfly 🦋
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🫠 How do we support our partners without losing ourselves?
Stepparenting without burnout -- is such a thing even possible??
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🤔 Don’t stepparents get an opinion?
Sure you do... but what you *actually* want is to feel fucking heard already.
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💅 Life after disengaging
How stepparenting looks several years later.
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💕 Love yourself first, stepparents
Quit trying to turn yourself into whoever you think your stepkid’s gonna like.
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💔 Love shouldn’t hurt
Yet sooo many stepparents beg to differ.
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✌🏼 Disengaging from your stepkid is not a failure
Stepping back as a stepparent is sometimes the best way to move forward.
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🔥 Stepparenting while the world is on fire
Is holding your center even possible at times like this?
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💗 Let’s make stepparenting better in 2025
But first, let’s take time to recover from the holidays.
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4 transition day tips for the holidays
Because holy cow those holiday visitation schedules can really wreck you.
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🦃 Gratitude, schmratitude
Surviving the holiday season when you’re not feeling particularly grateful for stepfam life.
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💔 When you're disheartened as a stepparent
Finding hope when you feel hopeless.
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