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From Chaos to Connection: Building Resilient Blended Families Through Faith
Resilience is your "bounce-back-ability" and you must have it in order to move your family from chaos to connection.
Cheryl Shumake
Jan 276 min read
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Shattered Silence: Recognize the Signs of Abuse and Break Free
Shattered Silence: Break free from the hidden cycle of abuse. Learn how to recognize the signs and reclaim your voice and life.
Cheryl Shumake
Oct 29, 20248 min read
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No More Drama: Biblical Wisdom for Co-parenting Courtroom Chaos
Stay calm amid co-parenting chaos with God's peace and wisdom. Practical steps to rise above courtroom drama and protect your heart. #Stepmo
Cheryl Shumake
Oct 4, 20246 min read
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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...
Cheryl Shumake
Jan 28, 20229 min read
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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...
Cheryl Shumake
Oct 9, 20201 min read
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It's Not Easy Being Green
Jealousy is more than insecurity. It's an infection that eats you from the inside out.
Cheryl Shumake
Sep 18, 20204 min read
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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.
Cheryl Shumake
Jul 2, 20201 min read
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Emotional Budgeting: 4 Line Items We Can No Longer Afford
In other words life is too short to continuously operate at an emotional loss. There are some things we can no longer afford.
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Apr 18, 20204 min read
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Surviving Success
For every 50 believers in Christ who overcome adversity there’s only one who overcomes Success.
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Apr 10, 20205 min read
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Riding the Wave: Finding Peace When Life See-Saws
When you’re a person a lot of people turn to, you can sometimes feel like you have no place to go.
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Apr 8, 20203 min read
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An Inconvenient Grace (or How a Black Girl Wrestled with God in a Parking Lot)
I’m not naively advocating for a passive response to racism. And neither, I might add, does the Word of God.
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Apr 6, 20204 min read
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Receiving Forgiveness
God’s nature is calibrated for holiness. Compared to His Light, any dimming of righteousness is utter darkness. Not dusky, dawn-ish, or gra
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Apr 5, 20204 min read
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Why I Started Stepmom Sanity: It’s All For You
I was looking for stepmom resources and found very little. What I did find was helpful, but I wanted more than a book. I wanted you.
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Apr 1, 20202 min read
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