84: Relationship Essentials – Tools for Healthier Relationships
Critical relationship skills are needed in every important relationship, especially in stepfamily life. In this episode, Ron Deal talks with a dynamic mother-daughter duo, Joneen Mackenie and Laueren Reitsema, on gaining a larger toolbox of wisdom and skills for strengthening relationships.
Show Notes
About the Host
About the Guest
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
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Joneen Mackenzie
Joneen Mackenzie graduated from the University of Texas, School of Nursing. She is a former 1st Lt. in the USAF Nurse Corp and is a credentialed and certified prevention specialist. Currently she is the president / founder of the Center for Relationship Education which houses the ACF poverty prevention initiative entitled, the Colorado Healthy Marriage Project as well as the Title V State grant that is being managed by the Colorado Department of Education. Ms. Mackenzie is the lead author o...more
Lauren Reitsema
Lauren’s interest in relationship skills began when her parents divorced after 20 years of marriage. Currently, she is the Director of Communication at the Center for Relationship Education and has been speaking for over 15 years, teaching a variety of relationship skills to youth, adults and corporate teams. Her experience in navigating the stages of transition between her parents’ divorce, remarriage, and preparing for her own marriage are the inspiration for her book In Their Shoes...more
Critical relationship skills are needed in every important relationship, particularly in stepfamily life. Ron Deal talks with a dynamic mother-daughter duo on practical ways of gaining a larger toolbox of wisdom and skills for strengthening relationships.
