The Medicine Wheel For Step Parents

About the Book

With The Medicine Wheel for Stepparents, I hope to give some understanding and relief to blended families. Stepfamilies have common threads of dysfunction. There are many issues that form these common threads. These issues occur between stepparent and stepchild and biological parent, biological child, and extended family in blended families. I have listed the issues and have offered affordable solutions that are within our grasp. These common threads reappear in every aspect of family life, including financial matters such as your child’s Social Security checks, child-support checks, medical bills, and the parents’ will. These issues occur when the power structure changes in a home after a divorce or death in a family. Everyone is left in a gigantic power struggle, which retires parents prematurely. Stepparents and stepchildren feel that they must protect their territory, ego, and family with secrets, isolation, intimidation, manipulation, and stonewalling behavior. When stepfamilies are choking, parents, stepparents, and stepchildren do not have to be severely depressed, take multiple medications for depression and energy, get a divorce, or attempt suicide for relief. Biological parents and stepparents do not have to be retired prematurely. There are better ways to keep everyone functioning in blended families. My book will not take away all the opposition you experience in blended families. We learn by overcoming opposition, not creating opposition. This book helps you analyze and carry the opposition to your efforts for your blended family.

About the Author

Mary Jane Grange was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, in 1946. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1970 with a bachelor of science degree in nursing. She has worked in doctorsâ offices and several hospitals in Wyoming and Utah. She worked for ten years at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, in obstetrics, neurointensive care, and the PRN Pool. She is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and worked in several organizations as a teacher and as an officer. She and her husband are beekeepers. She is married to Joseph E. Grange. She has one daughter, eight stepchildren, and many grandchildren, step-grandchildren, and step-great-grandchildren from which she has learned several PhD degrees from the University of Stepparenting (Hard Knocks).