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Stepmoms face crazy dynamics in their blended families. We’re here to help you stay sane. Get expert advice, practical tips, and biblical wisdom to give you the hope, help, and encouragement needed to flourish in your God-given role.
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Cheryl Shumake
- May 6, 2022
- 5 min
Prepping Your Heart for Mother's Day
“It’s just one day,” but it is a day of great significance... well-supplied with unrealistic expectations, tension, and territorial wars...
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Cheryl Shumake
- Mar 9, 2022
- 4 min
How Conflict Serves
Let's begin a conversation on how to use conflict to improve our marriage.
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Cheryl Shumake
- Jan 28, 2022
- 9 min
Face Like Flint: Staying Consistent in Blended-Family Fickleness
My husband and I were recently speaking with my bonus daughter. We've been doing a lot of that lately as she is preparing for the birth...
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Cheryl Shumake
- May 16, 2021
- 4 min
Meet Our 2021 Stepmom of the Year
We sat in our various spaces, over Zoom, in 3 Mid-western States, discussing how to bless stepmoms in 2021. It was time to do something...
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Cheryl Shumake
- Mar 23, 2021
- 1 min
Interview with Cheryl: Road to Purpose
Listen in as Cheryl and her friend, Kudabo Victory, chat about purpose, hope, and the book Waiting to Be Wanted.
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Cheryl Shumake
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
Cease Fire: Ending the Civil War in Your Stepmomma Heart
When I chat with a Bonus Mom who tells me she can't love her stepchildren I know I'm listening to a woman whose heart is at war...
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Cheryl Shumake
- Nov 28, 2020
- 3 min
Raindrops on Roses: My Favorite Things
I am not much of a shopper for myself, but give me a list of someone's favorites, passions, and a budget...I will shop like a madwoman
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Cheryl Shumake
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
10 Holiday Wholeness Hacks: For the Bonus Mom's Soul
The most wonderful time of the year can be, under the best of circumstances, the most stress-inducing time of the year.
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Cheryl Shumake
- Nov 2, 2020
- 6 min
Which Kingdom, Again?
Because the issues surrounding it have created such a wide divide, I wasn’t sure if I was going to blog on this topic at all. I wasn’t...
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Cheryl Shumake
- Oct 9, 2020
- 1 min
Inside Out: Stepmoming for His Glory Not Ours
For whom are you doing it? What's the measurement for determining success? Failure? If it's not "Well done" then perhaps it's time for a...
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Cheryl Shumake
- Sep 18, 2020
- 4 min
It's Not Easy Being Green
Jealousy is more than insecurity. It's an infection that eats you from the inside out.
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Cheryl Shumake
- Sep 3, 2020
- 5 min
A Change Go'n Come
The space was in disarray ... Completely dismantled and stripped... Still, I always saw my office even as I dealt with the mess.
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Cheryl Shumake
- Jul 2, 2020
- 1 min
Traveling Light
The same Jesus who invited you to exchange His easy yoke for your heavy burden, beckons you now to know the freedom of forgiving.
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- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
How God Taught Me To Live In Step
“Approach with humility!” That was the unbidden thought in my heart as I prepared to have yet another difficult conversation...
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- May 7, 2020
- 6 min
Grab Your Pom-Poms
No one is going clap louder for Jonathan than I am. Without apology or embarrassment, I am the loudest person in my husband's corner.
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- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
Co-parenting for Change
If we want our children to thrive, we have to be willing to do the difficult stuff. It’s not enough to co-parent with threadbare civility...
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- May 7, 2020
- 6 min
Disneyland Dads
When we take a non-accusatory look the dynamics of step-family life, we will begin to understand non-custodial parents have it hard too.
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- May 7, 2020
- 7 min
Kind To Me
Without a doubt I could extend a bit more grace to myself. Maybe you can too. If you’re like me then you make every effort to forgive others
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- May 7, 2020
- 5 min
The Step-Mom Bug-out Bag
August 14th, 2003 I was suffering in the dark. How can I recall that specific date? Many of us living in East Coast and Mid-West, America...
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