Ron Deal
LMFT, LPC
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Bestselling Author | Conference Speaker | Blended Family Expert
Ron Deal Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Stepfamilies | Stepfamily Education & Ministry | Marriage Enrichment
- Best Sellers
- The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family
- Career Focus
- Author | Speaker | Family Trainer
- Affiliation
- Stepfamily Expert Council, National Stepfamily Resource Center | American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists Clinical Member
Ron L. Deal is Founder and President of Successful Stepfamilies, one of the largest and most visited web sites for blended families on the internet. He is author of the bestselling book The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family and presents his “laugh and learn” Building A Successful Stepfamily conference in churches throughout the country on a regular basis. Ron is coauthor of the forthcoming books The Smart Stepmom: Practical Steps to Help You Thrive and The Remarriage Couple Checkup which is based on the largest survey of couples in stepfamilies ever conducted.
Ron is a member of the Stepfamily Expert Council for the National Stepfamily Resource Center and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor. He conducts phone coaching, counseling, and marriage therapy intensives for couples in crisis.
Ron has appeared on numerous national radio and TV broadcasts and has been published in magazines and newspapers around the country. Books, videos, articles, and his FREE E-Magazine are available from his web site: www.SuccessfulStepfamilies.com. Ron and his wife, Nan, have been married since 1986 and have three sons.
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Bestselling book: The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family<br>
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How to Cook a Blended Family
Whether you realize it or not, you have a set of assumptions about how to cook your blended family. By that, I mean your approach to how your stepfamily ‘ought’ to come together. Brenda was cooking her family with a blender. “It happened again the other night,” she began. “My 14 ...
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Cooperative Co-Parenting
Blended families are often torn apart by between-home conflicts while children are caught in the middle of warring parents. Strengthen your blended family by improving your co-parenting relationship. The goal of co-parenting (at a minimum) is to contain the anger and conflict expressed between ...
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Five Steps Forward, Not Looking Back
Family life is full of challenges and rewards. Stepfamily life is no different. Sarah knows just what I mean: “My first marriage to John was a battle from the day it started. I wanted romance and an intimate union; he wanted independence and freedom. He finally found it with another woman. ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ron Deal
- "There is a honeymoon for remarried couples, it just comes at the end of the journey and not at the beginning!"
- Becoming a healthy blended family takes time and patience. But you also need to know how blended family life is different than first-family life. Learn all you can and you can beat the two-thirds odds of divorce!
Contacting Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal, President
Successful Stepfamilies
6900 I-40W, Suite 295
Amarillo, TX 70106
806.356.7701
How to get started
Books, videos, articles, and a FREE monthly E-Magazine are available from www.SuccessfulStepfamilies.com.
Find conference locations here: http://www.successfulstepfamilies.com/view/15
Information on phone coaching, counseling, or marriage therapy intensives for couples in crisis is available here: http://www.successfulstepfamilies.com/view/450