About the Author

Diana Weiss-Wisdom, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in San Diego, California. In private practice for twenty-seven years, she is a noted expert in marriage counseling, stepfamily issues, couples workshops, and marriage retreats. A stepdaughter herself, she has been a stepmother to three stepdaughters, for fifteen years. She is a newspaper columnist and author of two book: Wisdom on Stepparenting: How to Succeed Where Others Fail and Stress and a Healthy Ticker: A Mind/Body Approach to Preventing and Recovering from Heart Disease.