Stress Reduction for the Holiday Season

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The Holiday Season is fast approaching and for many, it's a mixed blessing. There are high expectations and multiple pressures to ensure happy Holiday celebrations. Everyone is run ragged and spread too thin, planning, cooking, working around conflicting family schedules, and organizing transitioning kids. The blended-family experts recommend several strategies to help reduce holiday stress around any of the above issues or helping you prioritize and implement useful strategies to make this holiday season your happiest ever.

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The Tact and Tacking Skills in Resolving Blended Family Conflicts

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Adult stepfamilies face five common anger issues. Issues that surprisingly, both the parental couple and adult children share. Although these basic fears and concerns are important factors in stepparent relationships, there are opposing views about who causes the problems. Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D., authors of the groundbreaking book, Step Wars, described these anger issues as the Five Furies.

This is a must read for anyone in an adult stepfamily, whether biological parent, stepparent or adult child. It is an excellent and practical guide to help avoid pitfalls, to repair past damage, to maintain healthy relationships and to help everyone enjoy an adult step family experience.

This topic is expounded more in the book, Step Wars, by Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. There’s no substitute for reading the book, but a close second is to join us on an Ask the Experts interview with Grace Gabe and Jean Lipman-Blumen on September 30, 9 pm EST. If you can’t be on the call, submit your very own question to the authors here.

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