While it’s fresh on my mind, I wanted to share what happened—not because it’s a dramatic “can you believe this?” story, but precisely because it’s not. Sometimes, it’s the smaller moments—the ones that almost feel like they shouldn’t count—that can catch us off guard
How Remothering Helps Us Recover from Life’s Whooshes
(plus, an 18-second clip that makes me laugh every time I see it)
What’s on the other side of those teen years? A new parenting challenge: bearing witness to our emerging adult children navigate through the mists of uncertainty… as we and they learn to trust their unfolding process.
There’s no “what to expect” book for parenting emerging adults. And to make it more challenging, we may not have had healthy individuating modeled for us (ie: if you are the adult child of an emotionally immature parent).
But, there ARE tools we can lean into, so let’s take a look at how remothering moments can support us in surfing our own big feelings as we accompany our emerging adults with theirs.
