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Beyond The Nest — 55 episodes

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The "Defensive" Family | Operating Your Family on Offense instead of Defense

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She Raised a Son Alone After Losing Everything... | Jana Alcorn

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Parenting for the Long Term | The "Eyes Up" Philosophy in Parenting & Grandparenting

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How Parents Become Separated from their Kids | Entitlement Deconstructed

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Unlearning bad parenting, church "rules", & doing things different w/Aaron & Jen Sanders

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Becoming the Parent Your Kids Remember | lessons from 25+ years of parenting

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Unhealthy Attachment to Adult Children (keeping relationship after they're grown)

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Why Parents Need to Change their HABITS (becoming adaptable parents to grown children)

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The Psychology of Family Conflict (Preferences v Principles)

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Stop treating your kids all the same, do THIS instead

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Stop treating your kids all the same, do THIS instead

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The Truth About Holiday Drama Nobody Wants to Say

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Control vs Connection: What EVERY Parent Deals with When Kids Grow Up

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The Grandparent Gap: The Side Effects on Kids who grow up without Grandparents

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#41 - Why Do We Take Our Kids’ Failures So Personally?

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#40 - Encouraging Self Reliance in Children (what's their responsibility vs mine)

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#39 - The Drift That Destroys Marriages (and How to Catch It in Time)

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#38 - The Fear Behind Control: Breaking Free for Healthier Relationships.

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#37 - Splitting Household Roles & Chores Evenly (how we created a harmonious home)

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#36 - Parenting That Works: Getting Kids to Listen from Toddlers to Teens

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#35 - The Key to Raising Children Who Believe in Themselves (encouragement, curiosity, and discipline)

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#34 - How Ordinary Parents Build Extraordinary Legacies

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#33 - The Fragility of Family Words (language traps, spiritual boundaries, and tough love)

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#32 - Does Regret Damage Your Relationship With Your Kids?

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#31 - How To Have Family Unity When You Deeply Disagree

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#30 - 10 Invisible Walls Between Parents & Kids (types of estrangement)

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#29 - How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Kids When You Never Had That Yourself

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#28 - The Sandwich Generation (feeling “trapped” as a parent taking care of your own)

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#27 - Parent Guilt Is Real (how to own it, apologize, and move forward)

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#26 - Empty Nest Can Make You Forget Your Purpose (BUT here's how you get it back)

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#25 - Who Am I Without the Kids Home? (healing lost identify after empty nest)

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#24 - The Silent Grief of Empty Nest Mothers | identity loss, depression & the road back

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#23 - How to GUARANTEE a SHALLOW Relationship Between Parents & Kids w/Payton Welch

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#22 - Fixing Yourself, Not Your Kids (parenting & empty nest truths for self awareness)

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#21 - The Path of Reconnecting to your Kids (daily choices, narrow paths, & 2am friends)

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#20 - We Stayed Together for the Kids. Now What?

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#19 - The Trauma Trap in Families | identifying triggers and resolving the past

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#18 - From Parent to Friend (5 Keys of GREAT Relationship with growing kids)

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#17 - Drained Parents = Disengaged Kids (7 symptoms of fatigue & how to fix it)

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#16 - The Battles of Blended Families (remarrying, healing, & forgiveness) w/Jim & Sherry Weedman

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#15 - Treating Marriage like Business (vision, limiting beliefs, and environment)

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#14 - Loving In-Laws You Didn't Choose (family tension, spouses, & bitterness)

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#13 - Disconnects Between Parents & Grown Kids (roles, dependence, & social media)

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#12 - Staying on the same page, pre, during, & post kids

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#11 - Unloading baggage in an empty nest marriage (trauma, healing, & conflict resolution)

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#10 - Confronting Issues with Adult Children (hard conversations & lessons) w/Taylor Welch

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#9 - Creating Emotional Safety in the Family Home (obligations, feedback, & culture)

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#8 - Surviving without your kids at home (empty nest syndrome, move outs & holidays) w/Moms only!

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#7 - Fighting Fair in our marriage (winning arguments & learning from mistakes)

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#6 - Healing family division (loving your kids even when you disagree)

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#5 - Defeating Disappointment in Marriage & After Kids

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#4 - Facing Family Boundaries (Navigating in laws, new relational dynamics)

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#3 - Empowering your kids to change the world (staying great friends with your kids)

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#2 - BEATING Divorce after kids move out (surviving the empty nest phase of marriage)

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#1 - Letting Go of Your Kids (Navigating the difficulties of empty nest)