Unlocking Blended Family Success (A Christian based course)

If past pain has negatively impacted your faith... If you feel like a second rate Christian... If you have ever wondered "Is God mad at me because I divorced?" then this lesson is for you. In this section, we explore blended families in Scripture and provide reasons for living with joyful confidence! 

Examine why connection--even more than communication--is vital to blended family success. Then, dive into specific strategies for putting the Velcro principle into action with The Love Bank Challenge. This may be one of the most important lessons in this course!

I challenge you and your spouse to connect like Velcro by completing The Love Challenge. This challenge involves being proactive in filling your spouse's love-bank for seven days. The attached 24 page workbook will guide you on this journey. Inside, you will find 51 creative, love-bank filling ideas to get you started, along with printable worksheets to record your progress!

Learn what messy feelings are and how to use them to draw closer together than ever before. This lesson provides a vital key to connecting to your spouse, children, and step-children. Then, use the resource guide (attached below) to hold a family meeting, and practice allowing messy feelings in your home.

Discover how to release negative thinking and become fully present for your spouse and children. Then, put this principle into action with, The Gratitude Challenge. This exercise will inspire you to hone-in on the many things that are going right in your home!

I challenge you and your family to dive deeper into relating the righting-reflex by completing The Gratitude Challenge. This 30 page, printable workbook will guide you in the process. This challenge is perfect for building family unity, helping family members step out of fix-it mode, and in rediscovering all that you love about your incredible, blended family home!

Blended families are more and more common. If you are a blended family or stepfamily home, you are not alone. Blended families come in many different forms--which is precisely what we dive into in this video.

What helpful advice do you have for blended families? In this video, I'll share three strategies our family used to blend well. I'd also love to hear from you. What helped your family blend and what wisdom would you share with a newer blended family?

In addition to building on strengths, there is also enormous value in examining things that could have been done better. These are not necessarily blended family mistakes as much as they were areas our family grew into. If I could send a letter back in time to my younger self, here are three pieces of blended family advice I'd give.

How about you? What did you learn along the way in your blended family journey?

You have learned the success principles. Now, it is time to put them into action, every single day. This lesson provides practical strategies for getting started.