Empty Nester Therapy

Rich & Amy talk about not worrying about people reaching out to them, but then being the ones that reach out first! No strings attached!

You can feel as an empty nester that sitting on the couch and watching TV is not being productive. Maybe it’s exactly what you need? This episode unpacks this idea!

Rich and Amy talk about where they want to be in 15years! How can you start thinking about the future and what needs to change to get there

Rich & Amy talk about what giving back can look like in this phase of life!

Review of a spa in Portland, and talk about how we evolve as we grow older and hopefully wiser

Rich & Amy are back with a new season of Empty Nester Therapy! Where have they been and what you can look forward to in this season!

Rich & Amy talk about looking at the mirror at an older version of themselves! Embracing your place in life is a good thing!

Amy and Rich talk about more people that they know are passing away. People younger, and the same age go on without us and we need to embrace every moment!

Rich & Amy talk about shuffling the rooms in the house to be what they want because the kids are gone!

Amy and Rich talk about self-care and keeping routines is important!

Rich & Amy talk about the idea of an “Open Nest”… Create a space for your kids to be welcomed home is important, but it’s different.

Rich & Amy talk about the last of the yard projects and how they enjoy doing these projects together!

Rich and Amy talk about grief and how we grieve many stages in life

Rich and Amy talk about using your gifts and talents to help and serve others! Weddings are their love language!

Amy and Rich talk about the ways empty nesters are renovating everything!

Rich & Amy talk about TV shows and taking care of your bodies now that you’re not taking care of other humans!

Rich & Amy talk about how fun it is to spend money and time on what they want to!

Rich & Amy talk about faith, how God has been faithful and looking back and celebrating the faithfulness of God!

Rich & Amy talk about raising children and how they grow up. There is not a formula to produce perfect kids.

Rich & Amy talk openly about not being in a good place in their life and marriage and the need to work to be intentionally connected as a couple

Rich and Amy talk about the adults get old and we become the ones in charge. Also loving family that’s not family!

Rich and Amy talk about getting to know each other and find new ways of doing life after the nest is empty.

Rich and Amy talk more about the passage way to be parents that don’t parent their children.

Amy opens the podcast with a new weekly “what are we watching?” The question of why we have kids is on the table.

Rich & Amy start a new season and talk about the ups and downs of doing life without kids! New journeys finding life together!

Rich & Amy talk about 2024 and what’s on the agenda for 2025

Rich & Amy talk about Christmas and skiing as a family hobby

Rich and Amy talk about thanksgiving in California Ave how they are learning to let go of expectations and just let go

Time, Talent and treasure are all big parts of life. How are we supposed to manage them in your stage of life!

Rich & Amy just returned from Scotland and talk about all the Amazing things they did and saw in this amazing country

Rich and Amy talk about how expectations of our families and what they will be when we are in the empty nester life is tough to predict and accept sometimes!

Rich and Amy talk about houses and life before kids . The good stuff and the hard stuff

Amy and Rich talk about change is only thing that is constant and how we can be grounded inside the chaos of change

Rich & Amy talk about the meaning of community and how important it is to have people that walk life with you!

Rich and Amy talk about the 16 years in Tri-Cities and the start of Eastlake TC

Hospitality and how it is not about us!

Amy and Rich talk about the days and moments that changed their life and the trajectory of things to come.

Amy and Rich talk about weddings and how much fun they love to help couples have the best day of their life!

As empty nesters and parents of adult children it is important to remember that words matter! It is vital to understand to pause and communicate well!

Rich & Amy talk about the recent events of travel for work, boating and E-biking together in Portland Oregon!

Rich & Amy talk about the fall and going back to school and how empty nest couples have a different life than they did for years!

Rich spends a week with 250 Middle Schoolers! And has some bad luck along the way! Rich and Amy share about what they are learning!

Rich and Amy talk about buying a boat and how to live out the days of being Empty Nesters

Rich and Amy talk about Malibu a Young Life camp in Canada and the Olympics!

Rich & Amy start season IV with a fun fact about the Olympics and real conversations with friends as empty nesters!

Amy and Rich talk about the recent events of hard situations and needing community to make it through it

Rich & Amy talk about electric cars and all the technology that they have seen over the years!

Rich & Amy talk about seasons of life and how to step in not knowing what to take with you.

Empty nesters Rich and Amy talk about aging with honesty

Amy and Rich talk through an interesting topic of enneagram numbers and how they drive