StepWisdom
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StepWisdom,Eleanor Alden,VoiceAmerica,Variety,kids,family,internet,talk,radio
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Transforming Childhood to Transform the World’ Parenting for Social Change with Teresa Brett | Teresa Brett will join us on StepWisdom to share her work on cultural attitudes toward parenting children. Outdated attitudes that have shaped how many adults were raised are re-examined in light of new research. She clearly describes old parenting rules about controlling children with fear and guilt tactics. Her book challenges all that is best in parents: the love, commitment, the power we have to nurture, protect, support and guide with more effective parenting skills and strategies. From control to empowerment, from punishment to honor and respect, there are ways to parent that creates successful, kinder, more relational adults. Adults less concerned with “what other people will think,” than with truth, being just, and honoring others with dignity and respect. If our culture is going to be able to adapt to the diverse challenges of the next century and reduce the conflicts based on fear and guilt, we need to reexamine how people experience the world as children. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Rearrange Around the Children when Separated to keep Kinship Ties Strong with Judy Osborne, MA | Judy Osborne’s book, Wisdom for Separated Parents, is a product of fifty years of research and interviews with parents who have developed co-parenting systems to support their children. The amazing personal journey’s of parents who value their children’s well-being is described vividly in case after case: there are ways for adults and children to thrive. The guidance this book offers can make an enormous difference in the outcomes for co-parenting. While not minimizing the difficulties and complexities, Ms. Osborne’s emphasis on expanding flexible and creative kinship ties which support everyone’s well-being is one of the ways her work challenges us to do better. The focus on language and the personal and cultural attitudes which words reflect is startling. If children are to thrive, feel loved, and grow into successful adults our culture must rearrange the way we view family ties, and examine the language we use about separated parents, stepfamilies, and co-parenting. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lara Newton | Lara Newton, MA, Senior Jungian Training Analyst will be the guest on StepWisdom this week. She will be discussing her work, Brothers and Sisters: Discovering the Psychology of Companionship, both as inner archetypal patterns and outer relational patterns. When stepfamilies form, siblings often provide stability to each other as they travel between households. They are the daily constant in each other’s lives. Conversely, these can become destructive and toxic relationships, for example, if there is a scarcity of adult nurturing as the sometimes hostile parents focus on their personal conflict and neglect the children. Siblings can then become jealous adversaries with each other, trying to compete for the little crumbs of attention and energy the parents have left. The human range of emotions, from murderous rage to deep friendship, is described in myth and fairytales; providing road maps for our travels through the immense gifts and darker undercurrents of these life-long bonds. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Supporting Veterans Families and StepFamilies Coping with PTSD | Anthony and Janet Seahorn will join us to talk about their work with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among our Veterans. They have been champions of increasing support services and knowledge of the impact of PTSD for decades. War has always taken a toll on families, whether due to the death of soldiers or civilians, the history of humanity has always included the history of families being altered by warfare. The wars of the last one hundred years have been no different, but with increased medical sophistication and lower mortality rates for the injured, both physically and emotionally, we can now provide hope for those who in the past would have been unable to survive at all, let alone participate in family life. We will talk about ways to support our veterans, as well as active duty personnel, as they adapt and cope with the changes in families and marriages, including at times, stepfamily formation, which have always been a part of the consequences of war and military service. | 2/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mediation: Moving Beyond Being Adversaries and Setting Goals for Healing. | Robin McDonald, attorney and mediator, will join Eleanor Alden on StepWisdom. Her experience has allowed her to see the results of traditional divorces, which can be very adversarial, and mediated divorces which focus more on cooperation. Her calm encouragement focuses the divorcing couples on the goals each partner has for themselves and their children, while resolving disputes to allow all parties to reasonably and appropriate meet these goals. Her step by step approach acknowledges the difficulties of being in the midst of a grief process and a major life transition while making financial and legal plans. She encourages each partner to gain as much legal and financial knowledge, including consulting their own experts, before mediation begins. Mediation can reduce the financial costs of any divorce, and can speed the healing process. A good divorce will include grief work and even suffering, but mediation can avoid a lot of unnecessary emotional and financial trauma. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Step by Step: Paths to Successful StepFamily Life; Avoiding the Pitfalls, Recovery when it gets Hard | Responding to the questions from listeners and others who want to know: “How to Get to Success,” Eleanor Alden will talk on the step by step process of stepfamily development. These steps were known to our ancestors who described both the complexities and the rewards. What they knew is now validated by modern family research. Some steps are simple, some complex, and each stepfamily has unique qualities which make some of the processes harder or easier to accomplish. Stepfamilies which survive the first two years have a lower divorce rate than first marriages in general; it does not need to be a mystery of how to get there. We will talk about the specific phases beginning with the first marriage unraveling in separation and divorce, through grieving the losses, to healing and reconstruction, from developing a sense of security for children in the co-parenting process to the final steps of becoming a successful stepfamily. The process need not be a mystery. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deceived: Recovering after Infidelity: Healing the Marriage, or Beginning the Process for a Healthy StepFamily | Claudia Black, PhD, will be joining StepWisdom on Friday January 20th to discuss her ground breaking work in her book, Deceived. Divorces often follow infidelity and the foundation for a future stepfamily is then begun when one partner is unfaithful. Recovering from the pain and damage to self-esteem that can occur is tremendously important not only for the partners to move on to other relationships, but for stepfamilies to function at their best. Healthy step-families need parental figures who treat each other with respect or at least old fashioned good manners. However, the emotional upheavals that so often occur after finding out about an affair or infidelity can make it exceedingly difficult to re-establish a respectful communication system. Even years after a divorce, a former spouse’s new relationship can elicit rage and jealousy impeding healthy communication. Claudia’s work is tremendously important whether saving a marriage or developing a successful stepfamily. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Parenting, Co-Parenting, Step-Parenting: Different Skills and Increasing Challenge | Parenting style differences can be source of stress and conflict in the happiest of families. This conflict often increases as people unravel a marriage and develop separate homes with different rules and rituals. The challenges of co-parenting can be complex and complicated. However, children who experience the losses of their parent’s divorce while feeling loved and supported by two separate homes become the vast majority of those from divorced families who become successful happy adults. The research on the 15% of children of divorce who as adults suffer from significant emotional problems apparently is related to quality of the co-parenting and the ability of parents to cooperate respectfully. Step-parenting adds to the complexity as it adds one or two more parental figures to the kinship system. Wendy Conquest whose dynamic classes have been immense success in teaching co-parents and step-parents skills which allow children and adults to thrive, will join us today on StepWisdom. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Bully Proof Your StepFamily | Tania Henderson, LPC will join Eleanor Alden today to talk about the work she has done with school age children around and school systems around the issues of bullying. There is never an age when one can't feel bullied by others in a stepfamily or any family. Humans seem to have an innate need to win, sometimes at all costs, and in divorce and stepfamily formation that drive can lead to people feeling bullied by the legal system, the former spouse, stepchildren, and society for all its good intentions. Tania Henderson's work has no age limit. Moving from power plays and games to cooperation and understanding communication may take time and effort in some cases, and may be simple and effective quickly in others. But whether complicated and challenging or easier, it is worth reducing the bullying factor to as low as it can go in any family situation. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Year's Resolutions for StepFamily Life: Keeping the Love Alive! | Kathy Higgins, MA will join the Eleanor Alden today to talk about ways to reduce friction and resolve times of hurt and anger in a constructive way. She is a therapist and teacher who works with many modalities including Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness Methods to increase constructive communication and improve relationships in families, between couples, and with members of stepfamilies. Do you ever feel that "you were beside yourself" and said things which were more hurtful than constructive? Is there someone else in the stepfamily who does that often enough that it is harmful to family life? Is it hard to communicate successfully with a former spouse? DBT and Mindfulness are therapies which have shown remarkable results in turning highly emotionally charged communication into constructive problem solving, and increased empathy and understanding within stepfamilies. Join us to talk about ground breaking methods and therapies which have given hope to so many. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to make your holidays happier and less stressful with a stepfamily! | Are you like one-third of the people in the U.S., i.e., in a blended or stepfamily celebrating the holiday season and looking for some support and/or solutions? The holidays can bring about challenging situations for families in general, but this season can be particularly stressful for blended and stepfamilies. Join Eleanor Alden and her guest Paula Bisacre, publisher of www.RemarriageWorks.com, the go-to resource for remarriage and stepfamily living, as they discuss some helpful ways to make your holidays stress-free and happy! | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stepping into the holidays: "How to enjoy your stepfamily and have a successful holiday! | Holidays are challenging times when StepFamilies are involved. Holidays can be successful. They can be a time of celebrating with each person being honored and included in some of the multiple activities planned by various kin groups, or every they can be a nightmare of hurt feelings, disappointments, with some people being excluded and hurt and angry. This show will focus on handling the planned events such as dinners, religious services, picnics, and family traditions. If the planning by all is managed with a willingness to truly honor the needs and wants of each individual and each stepfamily grouping, it can be a series of events with all feeling included It may seem that one parent may have the best intentions in the world and another appears to be determined to spoil any attempts to make the holidays a happy success. Being creative and holding the spirit of the season in balance with personal wishes is a complex challenge, but it can be successful with some planning. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Invitation to re-vision the attitude toward StepFamilies | StepFamilies seldom draw a neutral response. When one simply uses the word “step” as it relates to family, people have an emotional response that is clearly negative. The show will discuss the known history of stepfamilies for understanding the way we see them now. History tells us stepfamilies have been seen as a sign of high status in most communities and culture. Yet now they have been viewed as being at the low end of social status. The goal of the show is to drop our black and white thinking and look at how to develop a successful stepfamily: a place for all to grow and be nourished, where children learn to be relational, successful and happy people in an environment of love and respect. Please join me in working toward an attitude adjustment toward stepfamilies with all their challenges, complexities and gifts. The show will invite callers, and respond to e-mail questions sent to the show. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 13 Episodes |
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