Conversation Replays with your Older Teen or Young Adult?
Let’s talk conversation replays. Do you ever find yourself parenting in your head… after-the-fact? If so, here’s a tool you can try…
When Your ADULT CHILD Starts Pulling Away… and You’re Not Sure What to Do Next
For Moms Navigating Distance with their Adult Daughters:
What happens when it feels like your adult child is pulling away after all you’ve done to raise them?
Especially after you’ve worked so hard to give your next generation something better than what you had.
Sometimes WE are the complicated mother (uggh!!)
If we’ve been doing our work to heal from our own mother wounds, and then we bump into rough relational waters with our own kiddos, it can feel disorienting.
So, what can we do?
Remothering as we Mother
From Relief to Self-Alignment: transforming generational patterns for ourselves and the next generation. From guilt and “shoulds” to clarity, empowerment, and connection
Taming the Emotional Bull
How Remothering Helps Us Recover from Life’s Whooshes
(plus, an 18-second clip that makes me laugh every time I see it)
Parenting Emerging Adults: individuation and uncertainty
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.