Blended Family Podcast

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Debbie Ausburn is the author of the book Raising Other People’s Children and has spent more than 40 years working with children who've experienced trauma. Her many roles include social worker, group home parent, foster parent, and stepparent. Along with parenting seven foster, adopted, and stepchildren, Debbie has served as a criminal prosecutor, volunteer, and Board member with nonprofit organizations. She is now an attorney in private practice, counseling and defending youth-serving organizations. She says, “I make my living as a lawyer, but what I do is take care of other people’s children."

  • Debbie’s personal story
  • How fostering children and blended families are similar
  • Tips on building new relationships and forming trust
  • Helping children through trauma
  • Sibling rivalry
  • Advice for stepparents learning their place
  • Helping children who have an absent parent
  • Dealing with attitude and backtalk
  • Debbie’s best lessons learned
  • Her book, Raising Other People’s Children
  • Debbie’s final advice/word of encouragement for listeners 
  • And much more!

 

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LinkedIn

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melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com

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We all have feelings, and they are there to help us. Most of us do not know how to work with our feelings, and instead we push them down and suppress them for various reasons. This is quite common in the blended family.  It’s important that we learn to recognize and process our feelings and emotions so that they do not get trapped in the body. 

 

  • My personal journey with feelings
  • Why feelings are important
  • How thoughts and feelings are connected
  • Why we ignore feelings and what that does to the body
  • My 4 step process that I made for you to help you RISE above those negative feelings 
  • The emotional scale and how to climb it
  • Tips for self care
  • Tips for expressing feelings and emotions
  • Tips for loved ones



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Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



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Carol Hughes, PhD, LMFT, holds her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology and her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, achieving both summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. She is also a two-time Fulbright Scholar. Carol served for ten years as an Associate Professor of Human Services at Saddleback College. In her practice in Laguna Hills, CA, as a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and family-focused divorce professional, for more than thirty years, she has assisted hundreds of divorcing families, as a therapist, child and co-parenting specialist, divorce coach, and mediator.

 

Bruce Fredenburg, MS, LMFT, has been a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for more than 30 years and is Board Certified in Clinical Hypnosis. He was a college instructor in Human Services at Saddleback College and at the National Medical Review School in Southern California. He also created and taught parenting classes for adoptive and foster parents. He is trained and experienced in chronic pain management, trauma, addictions, mediation, and collaborative divorce. In his practice in Laguna Hills,

CA, Bruce helps families as a therapist, divorce coach, co-parenting specialist, and mediator.

 

The topic of this show is Gray Divorce, or divorce that takes place after the age of 50, after the children are typically grown. In this interview we discuss

 

  • Bruce and Carols personal stories
  • What is gray divorce, and why it's becoming more prevalent
  • Why not many people are talking about this trend
  • What gray divorce looks like and how it differs from earlier on divorces
  • How adult children are affected by their parents late divorce
  • What parents can do to make the transition easier on their adult children
  • How a couple going through a gray divorce can move forward without fear 
  • Their book, Home will never be the same again: a guide for adult children of gray divorce
  • And much more!

 

Connect with Bruce

Website (Orange County Divorce coach)

Website (Psychology Today)

Facebook

Linkedin

Instagram

 

Connect with Carol

Website (Dr. Carol Hughes)

Website (Divorce Peacemaking)

Facebook

LinkedIn

Instagram

Buy the Book HERE


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Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



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Dr. Regine Muradian is a licensed clinical psychologist, children’s author, speaker, consultant, and mental health advocate. In her clinical practice, Dr. Muradian works with children, adolescents, and adults who present with a wide range of emotional stressors. She specializes in Anxiety and is a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP), ADHD, Depression, Eating Disorders/Body Image, and Executive Functioning Training. Dr. Muradian is also a specialist in Psychological and Neuropsychological Assessments.

She has extensive medical experience and expertise.  Dr. Muradian is fluent in 5 languages and incorporates her multicultural background with her clients. Lastly, Dr. Muradian is a published children’s author. Her first book, Franky and the Worry Bees was released during the pandemic as she found children and teens were having a difficult time connecting and staying motivated over distance learning. She has two more books as part of her Franky series coming out in 2021 titled, Franky and His Homeschool Adventures and Franky and His Special Talent. Dr. Muradian knows how to keep your child motivated and help parents create positive change in their lives. In this interview we discuss 

 

  • Her personal story
  • What children and teenagers are facing coming out of COVID
  • What some of the post covid type stressors are that might affect our kids, and how we can help them overcome those
  •  Signs your child is having trouble acclimating to post COVID life
  • How to help our children move forward past fear
  • What the long term psychological effects of COVID are, and how to minimize them
  • Anxiety and how COVID ties into that
  • Determining whether post COVID behaviors are normal or if they require special attention
  • Resistance to mental health help, and how to manage if a child is resistant
  • Her program for mental health training for teachers
  • Tips on getting kids to a positive mindset
  • And much more!

 

Connect with Regine

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Instagram

 

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Schedule an interview or coaching session HERE



Send questions or feedback to melissa@blendedfamilypodcast.com

Send me a voicemail at Speakpipe

Visit the website at www.blendedfamilypodcast.com

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