Blending a family is extraordinarily challenging because of the unexpected and unfamiliar dynamics. Dynamics that are normal for blended families, and feel “wrong” when experienced by blended family members.
The Complete Blended Blueprint contains all of the aspects that go into making a blended family complicated: starting from the history of blended families, stepparent stigma, creating a family in the middle of family development, through the eight stages of blended family development, what is to be expected in each stage, unspoken pressures and unknown expectations, specific stage issues and other complicating factors to blending a family.
The Complete Blended Blueprint contains worksheets for each stage of development for blended family members to work through.
Help Your Blended Family Thrive
Blended Families are complicated. Learn everything therapists are taught about blended families:
- basic psychology concepts
- the influence of personality dynamics
- potential complicators of blending
- attachment styles
- parenting differences
- the eight stages of blended family development
- the differences between first families and blended families
- ideas to help you navigate the ups and downs of your blended family smoothly
Understand the many psychological factors influencing underlying dynamics and why blended families are so complicated.
Why is this course so powerful?
Start from the beginning and know all there is to know about blended families.
- History, Stigma
- Group formation, Attachment Styles
- Insiders/Outsiders
- Roles / Boundaries
- Loyalty Binds
- To Discipline or not Discipline
- Eight Stages of Blended Family Development.
- HCPs and other personality types.
Increase your chances for successful blending.
- Understanding all the complicating factors blended families face.
- Orient to a new landscape and a different way of building a family system.
- Learn to cope with your upsetting emotions so you can help instead of hinder the blended family development.
- Understand your blended family members and what can help create a more peaceful home in the future.
- Learn how to give your partner the support they need versus the support you think they need.
How does it work?
This is a self-study course that will help you adopt the mindset of blended family thinking and start your journey off on the right foot.
What to expect:
- Discover what truly makes blended families so complicated.
- Learn distress tolerance for the challenging early stages of development.
- Understand and accept the insider/outsider dynamic and how it affects stepparents, bio-parents, and children.
- Learn about the Eight Stages of Blended Family Development.
- Learn what’s normal and when to seek professional help.
- Understand your own emotional journey.
- Gain compassion (the glue for blended families) of other family members’ experiences.
- Utilize worksheets to help clarify roles, boundaries, loyalty binds and realign expectations.
Course Modules
Module 1 – Navigating the Blended Landscape
Let’s face it, blended families are unique! This module delves into the differences between blended families and traditional ones. We’ll explore why step-parenting can be a trickier path and debunk common myths. Understanding how past relationships impact the present is key. Ultimately, you’ll discover that every blended family is on its own journey, and we’ll help you create a peaceful path forward.
Module 2 – Building Your Blueprint Framework
Ready to bring order to the chaos? This module helps you understand the dynamics of blended families. We’ll clarify how everyone relates to each other and what each partner brings from their past. Learning about yourself and your new family members is crucial for building a strong foundation. You’ll gain the tools to navigate life together.
Module 3 – Understanding Family Structures in Detail
This module takes a deep dive into the emotional experiences of each family member at every stage of development. We’ll explore how these experiences shape your family dynamic. It’s normal to feel apprehensive, but understanding what’s happening can replace fear with confidence. What makes this module special is its focus on the individual skills each member needs to thrive. Imagine a family where everyone feels comfortable and belongs – we’ll show you how. Plus, you’ll have lifetime access to revisit and enhance your skills as your family evolves.
Module 4 – Overcoming Relationship Hurdles and Complications
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, things still don’t click. This module helps you identify and address the underlying issues that may be hindering your blended family’s progress. We’ll explore how personality differences, addictions, and conditions like ADHD can contribute to challenges.
Module 5 – Resources
What You Get In The Course:
- Worksheets
- Course modules to work through at your own pace
BONUS
1:1 session once the course is completed
Investment
Full pay
$1247
(save $94)
3-pay
$447 x 3
(3 monthly payments)
Testimonials
“I was pleasantly surprised to feel like The Blended Blueprint was completely speaking to me and putting words to the issues happening in our family. It gave me a whole new understanding to what I was experiencing as a bio-parent and how walk the fine line between my new wife and my kids.”
– Walter | Palo Alto
“We went through the pre-martial [Blended Blueprint] course for 6 weeks with six 1:1 sessions and we feel much more aligned heading into our marriage. My husband learned how to support me [stepparent], in regards to managing my hurt emotions his children can accidently create, and I now understand what supporting his parenting means. We feel we get the reality of blending a family and are more prepared to meet the challenges. We’ve already purchased The Brief Blended Blueprint as resource to have in our back-pockets for the future. Thank you, Julee!”
– Tina | Huntington Beach
“Wow! I’ve never felt so validated. Someone actually understands what I am going through as a stepparent. The course [Brief Blended blueprint] laid out our family structure and what was happening, it immediately helped me feel better about our marriage and helped align my husband and I on how to handle moving forward.”
– Janeane | San Jose
FAQs
How do I know if I should use the online course or need couple’s therapy?
Are you struggling in your blended family? Are you confused about the intense emotions happening and the mixed communications that occur? One thing is for sure, if you’re going to blend successfully, you’ll need to be intentional about making that happen. By investing in The Blended Blueprint, you’ll get the expert knowledge you need and have been searching for. It’s like getting the blueprint plans for the home you want to build versus the home you just sold. Couples in repetitive negative patterns of relating/fighting need the professional intervention of weekly therapy. Couples that are able to communicate, and are working together can utilize The Blended Blueprint courses on their own. The Blended Blueprint courses are designed to stand alone or be beneficial to any therapy or coaching.
What’s the difference between fighting and domestic violence/intimate partner violence and does therapy help domestic violence?
- While all relationships are different the biggest factor is feeling safe in your home and without fear. Blended families have the insider/outsider dynamic causing stepparents to feel like they don’t belong, but does not leave them feeling unsafe with their partner or others in the home.
- Couple’s therapy will not help domestic violence – interpersonal therapy, anger management, cognitive behavioral therapy are types of therapy recommended for the violent partner to break their cycle. PTSD, cognitive behavioral therapy are types of therapy that can help victims of intimate partner violence. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233 or text BEGIN to 88788, the National Domestic Violence website is thehotline.org
How does this course help me?
- The Blended Blueprint will help open your eyes to the new type of family structure needing to be built. You’ll move from feeling as if you’re lost in the woods without any way to help yourself, to feeling like you have a map, directions, and the equipment needed to meet your challenges.
- Learn what is “normal functioning” for a blended families and ease the anxiety from the misunderstandings, hurt emotions and feeling things are “not right.”
- Put names to unfamiliar dynamics, emotions, misperceptions, hidden expectations.
- Learn about the 8 Stages of Blended Family Development and strategies for handling blended family issues in each stage for each family member position.
- The Complete Blended Blueprint is designed to stand alone and give families all the information a therapist trained in blended families dynamics and stages of development would know and understand.
How long do I get access to the content?
You have lifetime access. All future additions or course updates/video versions will automatically apply to your account.
How long will it take to complete the course?
This depends on the amount of time given to the course. It can move as fast or slow as desired. The Complete Blended Blueprint has 4 modules to work through with a 5th reference module. Modules 1 and 2 take about 25-30 minutes to complete. Module 3 goes in depth into the 8 stages of blended family development with each lesson taking approximately 20-30 minutes. The accompanying worksheets depend on the individual and how much effort is spent working through them. The course can be completed within a week given the time and effort.
Do I need to buy a workbook?
No, the worksheets are all downloaded from inside the course.
Do you offer refunds?
No, I do not offer refunds.
What learning platform is it and is it easy to navigate?
The course is built on Thrivecart Learn and is easy to navigate by scrolling down and clicking on the “next” button to move to the next lesson or module. Worksheets are downloadable within the course.
Is this course accredited for CEs?
This course is in the process for being accredited for CEs.
Is there any support offered alongside the course?
you can book one complimentary session anytime after purchase of the course, and additional sessions may be booked as needed for a fee.
Should I work through this with my partner or individually?
Either way will help you understand more about being part of a blended family, and working through with your partner is an added benefit in aligning yourselves as a blended couple and gaining common knowledge and a common language to discuss blended issues. A key ingredient to building blended families is understanding other family member’s emotional experiences in order to find solutions that work for each person’s feelings and needs.
Can you guarantee that we’ll have a happy family after working through the course?
Blended families are uniquely complicated and I cannot guarantee your families happiness. What I can guarantee is you’ll gain insight, knowledge and strategies to use in shaping the family life you want.
How is this course different from the Brief Blended Blueprint?
The Complete Blended Blue Print is a master course in blended families covering: societal stigmas, divorce statistics, and statistics around blended family happiness, styles of communication, parenting and attachment that can affect blending, differences between first-families and blended families, levels of authority in blended families, types of roles, bonds and competing goals within the blended family unit. This course includes everything a therapist would be taught and would need to know to increase their skills in helping a blended family, including the 8 stages of blended family development. The Brief Blended Blueprint focuses only on the 8 stages of blended family development.
What’s the difference between therapy and coaching?
Therapy utilizes your past and discovers how that’s affecting your current life and creating strife. Coaching is strictly strategic and solution focused toward the future.
Do I have to complete your course to get the 1:1 session?
No, but it’s recommended that you do as the program gives you a really helpful foundation – it helps you understand what’s normal in blended families and why certain challenges come up. That way, when we meet 1:1, we can dive straight into what’s going on in your family, rather than spending time on the basics. It means you’ll get more out of your session and more personalised support.