What You’ll Learn from this episode about how poker led to helping adult children with challenges with Barbara Decker: How poker eventually led to a career to help parents with adult children with challenges, especially with addiction and mental health. Why being a serial entrepreneur is full of clues and skill development that will...
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Have you figured out how to communicate in your empty nest? I think there are several moving parts with this whole empty nest communication topic. It can really keep you on your toes! The pandemic only makes things more complicated; more things to talk about. First…there’s communication for the people left IN the nest....
Continue readingEP #148: 5 Togetherness Tips when your Empty Nest Fills Up Again
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When your Empty Nest Fills Up Again: What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When your Empty Nest Fills Up again: Why it’s important to acknowledge that living with adult children again in midlife is a significant transition for everyone. Why the experience of adult children moving...
Continue readingEP #54: When your Relationship with your Mom is Difficult, Interview with Karen C.L. Anderson
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when you’re in midlife and have a difficult mother. How life coaching and mindfulness strategies helped cope with this difficult relationship. What it’s like to work on a difficult relationship with your mother, from a non-clinical perspective. What it’s like to decide it’s best to...
Continue readingEP #34: Expect the Unexpected when You Have an Empty Nest, Lizards and All
What You’ll Learn from this Episode: What it’s like when kids go in and out of the nest for years How, even with adult children, the unexpected will happen, for sure How difficult it can be when a pet dies when your kid is away at college or university How your thoughts can block...
Continue readingEp #4: Midlife Empty Nest and When It’s Finally Time for Your Baby to Go to College
What You’ll Learn from this Podcast Episode about Empty Nest in Midlife: Common anxious thoughts that plague empty nesters in midlife. My personal “Life Lessons from Mom” list that I run through before a kid leaves for college. The difference between thoughts and facts and why you must understand this distinction. How to manage...
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