Stepmum Space

About Stepmum Space

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 stop feeling like the problem. Whether you’re searching for stepmum support, stepfamily help, blended family guidance, or clarity around the stepmother role, you’ll find language here for what you’ve been living. Stepmum Space exists to break the silence around stepmotherhood — and to build steadiness where there’s been chronic adjustment. For structured support beyond the podcast, explore 1:1 coaching or Back in Control — Katie’s programme for stepmums living in chronic vigilance inside blended family systems. Learn more: www.stepmumspace.com/back-in-control Connect on Instagram: @stepmumspace

Publisher

Katie South

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Feb 2022

Latest episode

29 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

103 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Jul 2026

   Why Your Needs Always Come Last in Your Stepfamily (And How to Change That)

   Why you've shrunk yourself down — and what to do about it Almost 70% of stepmums said their needs often don't matter. Not one person said never. If you recognised yourself in that — this episode is for you. There's a hierarchy in stepfamily life, and nobody tells you about it when you sign up. The children's needs feel urgent. The ex has to be managed. Your partner is grieving the time he's lost with his kids. And then there's you — fully in it, everything affecting yo...

2. 

   22 Jul 2026

   "The Ex Hangs Up When She Hears My Voice": One Stepmum's Honest Account of Blending a Family Against the Odds

   Clare on court battles, a hostile ex, and what actually holds a blended family together. She spent a year sleeping in her sister's garage. His ex refused to sign divorce papers for five years. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, they built a blended family of six that genuinely works. Clare has four children between them, four different schools, two different counties, a difficult ex-husband. Her partner's ex refused to divorce him for five years and still hangs up the pho...

3. 

   15 Jul 2026

   "But You're the Adult" — What That Phrase Is Really Saying to Stepmums

   On being managed instead of heard — and what to do when your partner freezes instead of stepping in. Have you ever raised something that was really bothering you in your stepfamily, only to be told "but you're the adult"? Ninety-two percent of stepmums said yes. This episode is for every single one of you. Resources mentioned: What to say when, Scripts for Stepmums "But you're the adult" sounds reasonable on the surface. Of course you are. Nobody's disputing that. But ...

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5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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5.0 / 5

95 ratings

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