Hosted by Katie South · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 97 episodes
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Stepmum Space — The Podcast for Stepmums Navigating Complex Stepfamily Dynamics If your body changes before contact. If your home stops feeling like your safe place when the kids arrive. If you love your partner but feel destabilised by stepfamily life — this podcast is for you. Hosted by Katie South — stepmum, transformational coach, and founder of Stepmum Space, this is psychologically grounded support for women living inside blended family systems. This isn’t generic parenting advice. We talk about: – Walking on eggshells in your own home – High-conflict ex dynamics and false narratives – Chronic anxiety before contact – Loyalty binds and positional insecurity – Stepfamily resentment and guilt – The emotional labour stepmums carry but rarely name Katie combines lived experience with system-level insight to explain what’s really happening inside complex stepfamily dynamics — so you s
Katie South hosts Stepmum Space, a kids show with 97 episodes published.
Most stepmums have thought it. The texts, the flat nos, the requests that somehow only ever go one way. Ellie thought the ex was being deliberately difficult — and she wasn't wrong to think it. What changed wasn't the ex
What if you're not trying to become one big happy family... and that's actually okay? For the stepmum who feels guilty for wanting space, distance, or a different version of family life than everyone else seems to expect
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When your partner’s children live hours away, stepfamily life can start to feel like constant emotional whiplash. This episode is for the stepmum trying to hold love, anxiety, resentment and hope all at the same time. Wh
A lot of stepmums get very good at saying “I’m fine” when they’re anything but. Not because they’re dishonest — but because stepfamily life can stop feeling emotionally safe enough for the truth. There’s something many s
Sarah became a full-time stepmum to three children whose mum had left the family home. She didn't tiptoe in, she threw herself in. But that doesn't mean it's been simple. What happens when you go from complete independen
You’ve had the thought… and then immediately felt guilty for having it. Not because it isn’t true — but because of what you think it says about you. There are things stepmums think and feel that rarely get said out loud.
If you feel constantly on edge in your own home as a stepmum, this is why. This is for the woman quietly thinking, “I don’t feel like myself anymore.” “I used to be relaxed… and now I feel tense, on edge… like I’m consta
If you’re a stepmum who has felt pulled into conflict you didn’t create, this conversation will feel painfully familiar. Kathryn shares what it’s like when co-parenting stress, stepfamily dynamics and trying for a baby a
If you’ve ever thought “my life would be easier if my stepchild wasn’t in it”… and then felt immediate shame, this is for you. Because that thought doesn’t mean what you think it does — but the guilt can quietly take ove
You’re not imagining it — but being told you’re “too negative” starts to make you question yourself. This is what’s really happening when you become the one who sees everything in your stepfamily. If this feels familiar
If you’ve ever thought, I do so much for this child and still feel like I don’t really count, this episode is for you. Because one of the hardest stepmum struggles is caring deeply while being kept on the edge of the pic
You say nothing for weeks, then everything comes out at once. And afterwards, you’re left wondering if you really are the problem. If you’re listening to this and thinking “this is exactly what keeps happening,” you don’
You’ve had the conversations. You’ve explained it properly. So why do you keep ending up back in the exact same place? If you’re listening to this and thinking “this is exactly what keeps happening,” you don’t have to st
You can love all the children in your stepfamily and still have completely different relationships with each of them. That doesn’t mean you’ve failed as a stepmum — but it can leave you overthinking, adjusting yourself,
Why is stepfamily life taking up so much space in your head… even when nothing is actually happening? If you can’t switch off, this isn’t overthinking — it’s something deeper. If you want to step out of overthinking and
You’re not just managing your own feelings — you’re managing everyone else’s too. The kids, your partner, even your partner’s ex… and it’s starting to drain you. If you'd like more information on the Back In Control prog
Do you ever feel like you care more about the stepfamily dynamic than everyone else put together? This episode is for the stepmum who keeps trying to help, steady and protect — and is ending up exhausted. There is a part
Mother’s Day can be one of the most emotionally complicated days of the year for a stepmum navigating stepfamily life. If you’ve ever felt invisible, conflicted, or quietly sad inside your blended family on a day meant t
If you’re a stepmum who loves your stepchild deeply but still feels destabilised by the stepfamily around you, this will hit home. For deeper support with stepmum struggles, boundaries and emotional steadiness, explore B
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