Blended - Navigating The Blended Family Experience

Carolyn is a prime example of a new wife and step-mother making it work! She's been in those roles for just over a year, so she's in the midst of learning on the fly as well as executing the plans that they have for their family. While no blend is perfect, her early success in family may be attributed in part to her investment to health! As the COO (chief operating officer) and co-founder of Tiny Organics (tinyorganics.com), Carolyn is providing ready-to-eat meals for babies and toddlers. Listen in on the steps she's taking to create a foundation for their family! 

Follow & contact Carolyn O'Hare: 
@tinyorganics (Instagram)
@car0hare (Instagram)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynmohare
www.tinyorganics.com

Our families are threatened by 'Outsiders.' That's anybody outside of our immediate family unit. We may care for and appreciate these individuals, however, our family must remain the priority. Listen in so you can use some of the criteria that determine whether we can allow someone to be intimately involved in our family, or if we may need to create some distance so that we're not compromised. It's not an easy discussion, but it's necessary! 

If you'd like to connect for coaching or support, then please use the link below:
https://calendly.com/renewyou-live/30min

 

We're celebrating our Anniversary with you, the blender fam! You guys sent in some questions and we chose to touch on eight of them for each year that we've been married. Some good stuff in this one! 

Humility and authority work closely together for the sake of strengthening relationships and providing the means to function effectively in all that we do. When they are in full operation within our homes, health and prosperity are commonplace. This is no bluff! Humble authority is a treasure worth seeking and the jackpot is undeniable once you get your hands on it! 

Listen in as I open up a Blended Family Support facebook page and share my two cents on some of the posts! Whether my advice was effective or not, it was a little too much fun! 

Melissa Miller has an enriched perspective in part due to her roles as a wife, a mother to biological children, and those that they've adopted! During the episode she spoke into the importance of preparation before making decisions, working together within a marriage, and how not to lose yourself in the midst the list of life's demands. 

Whether you want to understand your partner, or you're trying to understand where you stand as of now and how to move forward with your faith, sanity and health in tact, this one will serve you well! 

For more of Melissa's content you can order her book: 
"Restful Anticipation: Finding Contentment in Seasons of Waiting" 

or the book in which she co-authored entitled: 
"What Other Moms Never Told Me." 

You can also tune into the podcast that she co-hosts along with her husband Brandon Miller entitled:
"Home Run At Home" 

Information withheld can be detrimental on both a personal level, as well as within our relationships. If what we bring to the light allows for us to live freely, then what are the consequences of what we keep in secret? If we want whats best for the sake of our families, then we also want transparency and the freedom tha tcomes with. 

Creating culture in our homes can be done with or without intention. The former is in our best interest! The family huddle is a tool that we exercise in this home that allows for us to achieve security, expectations, and hope! I strongly belive that this is something that we can benefit from in each of our homes. 

Even as men, we tend to misunderstand the male perspective! We can pursue things such as the woman of our dreams, a family, and career, with great intention. All-the-while lacking the ability to communicate what we need from our loved ones along the way. Understanding his perspective is vital for himself and the health of the family unit!  

A whole and healthy family absent of resistance is a dream we often aspire toward. Reality may consist of coming to a point of asking ourselves whether we made the right decision to pursue this relationship. It's okay. Most people come to this crossroad! You can be dilegent in your efforts to answer that question and arrive at the best outcome for yourself, and everyone else involved.