Podcast Episodes

Ways We Sabotage Connection with our Adult Children

Season 6 Episode 114

Ready to upgrade your relationship with your grown kids without losing yourself in the process? 

We sit down with clinical psychologist and author Dr.…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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Tell Your Kids The Truth: A Dad, Three Sons and What he Wished he Knew

Season 6 Episode 113

We know this isn’t our usual topic about building healthy relationships with adult children—but when we met Joe Dooley, we knew we had to share his s…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Prep for the Holidays: You Can Do it - with Grace, Boundaries -- and Self-Awareness

Season 6 Episode 112

The holidays are upon us.  It's time to dig deep.

Catherine Hickem, founder of Parenting Adult Children Today (PACT). Catherine shares a hopeful, prac…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode Rewind: From Enabling To Empowering: Rethinking Parenting In The Age Of Anxiety

Season 6 Episode 111

We sit down with "therapist to the millennials"  Tess Brigham to unpack why the 20s feel overwhelming, how parents can ease anxiety without enabling,…

11 months, 1 week ago

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Grandparenting Without Overstepping: Love, Boundaries, and Listening

Season 6 Episode 110

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The first hug go…

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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When Love Feels Like Judgment: Navigating Connection with our Adult Children

Season 5 Episode 109

What if the words you use to show love are the very ones your adult child hears as judgment? That tension—care that lands as critique—drives so many …

1 year ago

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Vulnerability Without Judgment: Shifting Parent-Adult Child Dynamics

Season 6 Episode 108

Relationship and Friendship expert Shasta Nelson shares powerful insights on transforming parent-adult child relationships and building meaningful co…

1 year ago

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Your Adult Child's Boundaries are not a Rejection of You

Season 6 Episode 107

Have you ever sent an impulsive text when feeling rejected by your adult child? That desperate "What did I do wrong?" message that you later regrette…

1 year, 1 month ago

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When They are Little, They Sit on your Lap: When They are Big, they Sit on Your Heart

Season 6 Episode 106

This is one funny episode.
 
 Today we interview Susan Engel, a professor of psychology at Williams College and the author of the New York Times Articl…

1 year, 1 month ago

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From Helicopter to Helper: Navigating Your Child's College Transition and Beyond

Season 6 Episode 105

Growing up doesn't end at 18—it's just beginning. Dr. Sara Klein, Vice President for Student Affairs at Stevens Institute of Technology, delivers a p…

1 year, 2 months ago

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