About this episode

Alicia discusses the misconception that peace in blended families equates to perfection, highlighting the emotional struggles of stepmoms.

Are you constantly chasing peace in your blended family… but secretly defining peace as “everything going perfectly”? In this episode, Alicia dives into one of the biggest mindset traps high-achieving stepmoms fall into: believing that peace and perfection are the same thing. From overthinking conversations to trying to control transition days, co-parenting dynamics, schedules, emotions, and everyone else’s reactions, many stepmoms end up emotionally exhausted trying to create a version of fa...

People in this episode

Host: Alicia Krasko

Topics covered

• blended families
• stepmoms
• mindset traps
• peace vs perfection
• co-parenting
• emotional exhaustion

Keywords

• blended family
• stepmom
• peace
• perfection
• co-parenting
• mindset
• emotional exhaustion

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