Blended Family Blueprints
Strategies to Overcome 10 Common Struggles and Build Lasting Unity
$14.99
Becoming a blended family doesn’t automatically mean becoming a bonded family. Building that connection takes intention, honest conversations, healing, and a plan.
In Blended Family Blueprints, Jessica Pickens brings together real-life lessons, biblical wisdom, and practical guidance to help families navigate ten common challenges of blending a family. Drawing from more than two decades of blended family marriage and raising six children with her husband, Tyrone, Jessica shares the tools and insights they wish they had when their journey began.
With honesty about the mistakes, growing pains, and lessons along the way, this book invites you to look beneath the disagreements, understand what your family needs, and take meaningful steps toward stronger relationships. Whether you’re preparing to blend or have been navigating family challenges for years, you’ll find encouragement to strengthen communication, extend forgiveness, establish healthy boundaries, and build unity with faith and grace.
While Jessica is the named author, this book grew out of a journey she and Tyrone have lived together. Ty’s experiences, perspective, and partnership helped bring Blended Family Blueprints to life. Their shared heart is to help other families learn from their struggles and find hope in what is possible.
An expanded, revised second edition is now in development, co-authored by Coach Ty & Coach Jess. This next edition will bring both of their voices directly to the page, with deeper insights and additional practical guidance to help families move from blended to bonded.
Stay encouraged! Your family doesn’t have to have it all figured out to begin building something stronger!!!
Strengthening Blended Families Prayer Journal
$9.99
In Strengthening Blended Families, this 30-day prayer journal is designed to be a transformative tool for blended families seeking healing, unity, and spiritual growth. Each day’s prompt encourages heartfelt reflection and offers powerful prayers tailored to the unique journey of blending families.
Through guided prayers, thought-provoking prompts, and space for journaling, families are invited to strengthen bonds, address challenges, and embrace God’s healing love.
Additional Resources for Blended Families
We truly believe every blended family deserves the chance to thrive, even when the road feels messy, complicated, or overwhelming. While we share our own journey, tools, and resources here, we also know that we may not always be the right voice or fit for everyone—and that’s okay. What matters most is that you and your family find the support you need to stay united, grow stronger, and avoid becoming another divorce statistic.
That’s why we’ve included links to other ministries, organizations, and voices who are also doing incredible work to serve blended families. These are resources we didn’t create, but we want you to know about them, because sometimes the breakthrough you need might come from a different perspective, or even just the right word at the right time.
This page isn’t just about our books, journals, or programs—it’s about giving you access to as many lifelines as possible. Our heart is for families like yours to get the guidance, encouragement, and tools needed to navigate the unique challenges of blending, so that love, grace, and unity can win in your home.
Take a look, explore what feels right for you, and remember: you don’t have to do this alone.
“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” – Proverbs 11:14
Ron L. Deal / Smart Stepfamilies Website: https://smartstepfamilies.com/
Ron Deal is a leading expert in stepfamily dynamics. He leads Smart Stepfamilies, writes books (like The Smart Stepfamily), and offers curriculum, articles, podcasts, and training.
Stepmom Sanity (Cheryl Shumake) Website: https://stepmomsanity.com/
A Christ-centered community, podcast, blog, and support space especially for stepmoms. Cheryl shares encouragement, tools, and wisdom from her own journey.
FamilyLife Blended Website: https://www.familylife.com/familylifeblended/
The blended family division of FamilyLife, offering biblically grounded articles, resources, training, and tools to strengthen stepfamilies.
Jay & Tammy Daughtry / CoParenting International & The Center for Modern Family Dynamics Website: https://www.coparentinginternational.com
Jay and Tammy Daughtry are co-parents, authors, speakers, and relationship educators. They founded CoParenting International (2003) and The Center for Modern Family Dynamics to equip divorced, remarried, and blended families with tools for healthy co-parenting, communication, and relational healing. They created the curriculum One Heart, Two Homes: Co-parenting Kids of Divorce to a Positive Future which includes video vignettes, discussion guides, and training materials.
National Stepfamily Resource Center Website: https://www.stepfamilies.info/
A clearinghouse of research, educational materials, training, articles, and tools for step and blended families.
The Family Core Website: https://thefamilycore.com
The Family Core is a family organization app and platform designed to help busy and blended families stay connected, coordinated, and secure. It offers tools for managing schedules, documents, communication, and more — all in one place.