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Welcome to the Midlife Worthy Moms, the podcast for Graceful Empty Nesters. I'm Kim Damon, founder of Midlife Discoveries, Worthy Moms. As a certified life and Enneagram coach for moms of adults, I'm here to help you find connection with your adult kids while embarking on your journey as an empty nester mom. Let's create drama remission with your kids, step kids, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law. Build a life based on grace and peace. Tune in each week for practical tips and valuable lessons on connecting with your adult children and living your best life. Together, let's transform our moments of rejection into joy and laughter.
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Ep 135: Pause for purpose, healing, hope, and a big announcement!
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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EP 134: Breaking Down What it Means to Love a Narcissist - Part 2 with Lynn Catalano
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Ep 133: So, You Love a Narcissist? - Part 1 with Lynn Catalano
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Ep 132: Victory Over Shame with Latoya Mathews
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Ep 131 Leaving Pain Behind & Carrying Progress Forward
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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EP 130: Finding Magic in Christmas Again
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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EP 129: Why We Hold Onto Pain (And How to Finally Let Go)
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Ep 128: From Walking on Eggshells to Peaceful Parenting with Karen Carlson
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Ep 127: When Anxiety Hijacks Your Mom Heart: Finding Peace with Dr. Robyn Graham
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Ep 126: When Different Beliefs Divide Your Family
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Ep 125: Mom Guilt and Social Media: Finding Peace this Holiday Season
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Ep 124: When the Glass Breaks - Letting Go to Let God with Ruth Walton
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Ep 123: Ruth Walton's Story of Healing & Faith
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Ep 122: The Thought Trap - Why Your Mind Might Be Making Things Worse
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Ep 121: Stop Waiting for Change, Start Modeling the Relationship You Want
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Ep 120: Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Ep 119: Beyond Conditional Love: How to Love Your Adult Child Without Expecting Anything Back
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Ep 118: The Hidden Shame: Breaking Free From The No/Low Contact Stigma
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Ep 117: The Biblical Truth About Loving The Hard-to-Love Family
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Ep 116: Why Retelling Your Story Can Keep You Stuck
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Ep 115: Breaking the Cycle: How I Healed Estrangement Across Two Generations
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Ep 114: The Fear That's Keeping You From Your Grown Child
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Ep 113: The Epidemic of Estrangement and Hope
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Ep 112: An Honest Conversation With My First Love - My Son (Part 2)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Ep 111: An Honest Conversation With My First Love - My Son (Part 1)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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EP 110: Navigating The Seven Stages of Loss
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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EP 109: Kindness Isn't Code for How to Give In
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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EP 108: The Sneaky Emotions That Keep You Stuck (And How to Break Free)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Ep 107: It's Not What They Do - It's How You Think About It: The Power of Subjective Thoughts
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Ep 106: The Two Sides of Validation: Why One Pushes Them Away, And The Other Draws Them Closer
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Ep 105: The Secret to Being a Team With Dad
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Ep 104: The Detective Mom: Why We Find Only What We Are Looking For (And How to Change It)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Ep 103: The Mission & Core Values to Transform Your Relationships
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May 30, 2025 |
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Ep: 102 Stop Feeding the Fire: How Your Anger is Eating You Alive
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May 23, 2025 |
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Ep 101: An Honest Conversation With Mini-Me (Part 2)
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May 16, 2025 |
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Ep 100: An Honest Conversation With Mini-Me (Part 1)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Ep 99: Embracing Your Midlife Power
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May 02, 2025 |
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Ep 98: Breaking Free - Why Anger Holds You Hostage
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Ep 97: The L.O.V.E. M.E.N.D.S. Framework: Your Path from Heartache to Healing with Your Adult Child
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Ep 96: Your Worth Isn't Determined by Others
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Ep 95: The Comparison Trap
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Ep 94: Silencing Your Inner Mean Girl
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Ep 93: Letters from the Heart: Reconnecting with Your Grown Child
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Ep 92: When Your Inner Child Meets Your Adult Children
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Ep 91: Consistency Rebuilds Trust With Your Adult Children
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Ep 90: Your Midlife Matters - Finding Compassion When Everything is Changing
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Ep 89: Moving Beyond Anger to Restore Connection
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Ep 88: Emotional Walls to Open Hearts - The Journey of Reconnection
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Ep 87: Turning Powerless Into Powerful - Reclaim Your Worth as an Empty Nester Mom
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Ep 86: The Silent Storm - Why Avoiding Conflict Creates More Distance
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Ep 85: Why Progress Matters More Than Your Ideal Family
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Ep 84: The Truth About Family Division
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Ep 83: When Your Adult Child Chooses Silence
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Ep 82: How Your Old Beliefs Can Block Your Relationships
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Ep 81: Healing Hearts: Your 2025 Roadmap to a Better Relationship
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Ep 80: Finding Peace in Family Moments: Strategies for Events & Celebrations
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Ep 79: Untangling Holiday Heartache
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Ep 78: The Surprising Truth About Your Thoughts
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Ep 77: Break Free From Triggers
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Ep 76: Finding Gratitude When Thanksgiving Feels Hard
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Ep 75: The Perfect Apology: Why 'Sorry' Isn't Always Enough
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Ep 74: The Power of Facing Your What Ifs
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Ep 73: Emotional Layers: The key to understanding Complex Emotions
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Ep 72: The Hidden Cost of Avoiding Your Pain
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Ep 71: It's Never Too Late to Create a Growth Mindset
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Ep 70: Unlocking the Growth Mindset
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Ep 69: Rebuilding Relationships: The Power of Accountability
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Ep 68: Silencing the Inner Critic
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Ep 67: The Many Ways Moms Handle Conflict
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Ep 66: Building Your Ladder to Reconnection - Part II
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Ep 65: The Ladder To Connection
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Ep 64: How the Enneagram Creates Understanding & Connection
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Ep 63: The Unexpected Joy of No Expectations
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Ep 62: A Fresh Approach to Connection - Dating Your Kids
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Ep 61: Healing Your Anger Towards Your Adult Children
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Ep 60: From Explosion to Connection
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Ep 59: Conversation Starters
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Ep 58 Why We Remember It Differently Than Our Grown Kids
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Ep 57: Layers of Loss
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Ep 56: Loving The Rough & Tough In Our Lives
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Ep 55: Believing The Impossible
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Ep 54: The 'Flying Monkeys' Metaphor & What You Need to Know
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Ep 53: Celebrating Growth and Transformation in Midlife Motherhood
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Ep: 52 Our Body Language
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Ep 51: The 'Let Them' Movement
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May 31, 2024 |
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Ep 50: Envy for the Shiny Family
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May 24, 2024 |
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Ep 49: Emotional Triggers
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May 17, 2024 |
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Ep 48: Planning Ahead of Time
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May 10, 2024 |
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Ep 47: The 80/20 Ruling Our Lives
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May 03, 2024 |
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Ep 46: The Queen Bee (our right of passage)!
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Ep 45: Why Our Kid's Don't Call Us
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Ep 44: Believing It Can Change
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Ep 43: Boundaries - Part II (The boundaries placed on parents)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Ep 42: Boundaries (Part I) Setting a loving boundary without calling it a boundary
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Ep 41: The Perfect Family
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Ep 40: Wedding Drama: Navigating the Emotional Journey
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Ep 39: Asking Yourself Why?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Ep 38: Well-Intended or Just Nosy?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Ep 37: Stuck in the Middle
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Ep 36: The Argument In Our Minds
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Ep 35: Indulging in Worry
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Ep 34: Changing Your Grown Child's Behavior
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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E 33: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Ep 32: Why is this happening to us?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Ep 31: Black and White Thinking in Relationships
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Ep 30: Mom Stress
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Ep 29: Balancing Contrast in Relationships
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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EP 28: Building Trust
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Ep 27: The In-Laws (or Out-Laws)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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EP 26: Quiet Quitting in Families
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Ep 25: Navigating the 7 Stages of Loss in Relationships
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Ep 24 Emotional Buffering
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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EP 23: Family Feast & Frustration
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Ep 22: The Military Mom
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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EP 21: Gaslighting, The New Family Buzz Phrase
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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EP 20: Venting and Complaining
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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EP 19: Embracing Failure
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Ep 18: Finding Gratitude
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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EP 17: Finding the Evidence
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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EP 16: Emotional Mom Fatigue
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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EP 15: Our Lovability
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Ep 14: Our Emotional Triggers
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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EP 13: The Difference Between Criticism & Feedback
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Ep 12: The Drama Loop
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Ep 11: Getting Relationship Results
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Ep 10: What Our Personalities Reveal About Us
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Ep 9: Guiding with Love Through Adult Kid Challenges
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Ep 8: The Strong Emotion of Rejection
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Ep 7: The Pursuit of Mom Happiness
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Ep 6: Giving Your Adult Child Advice
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Ep 5: Mom vs Dad in Conflict with Adult Children
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Ep 4: Negotiating Fairness with Your Adult Children
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Ep 3: Supervising Your Brain
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Ep 2: People Pleasing Moms
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Ep 1: Midlife Worthy Moms Podcast for the Graceful Empty Nester
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Jun 17, 2023 |