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The Almost Empty Nest—Letting Go, Redefined: Parenting Teens and Finding Yourself Again—with Small Jar Coach

Master Coach Jennifer Collins

Are you stuck between wanting to guide your teen or college kid and knowing it’s time to start letting go? Welcome to The Almost Empty Nest Podcast, where moms of teens and college kids reframe what ‘letting go’ really means and stop second-guessing themselves to feel more connected, confident, and at peace in this chapter of motherhood. Each week, you’ll learn how to: • Break free from mindset traps like catastrophizing, mom guilt, and the illusion of control • Build a stronger

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108. Mom Archetype #3 - The Nurturer

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2024/06/29

Small Jar's "mom archetypes" celebrate the many strengths and gifts that we bring to this beautiful and crazy journey of motherhood. We love our kids so much, and we want them to be safe, happy and successful. "The Nurturer" is a mom who loves her children unconditionally. She has a high degree of empathy and provides a safe space for her children. She loves the purpose and fulfillment that comes with this role. There is a Nurturer in all of us, and these strengths have been a gift to our

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107. Mom Archetype #2: The Achiever

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2024/06/22

Small Jar's "mom archetypes" celebrate the many strengths and gifts that we bring to this beautiful and crazy journey of motherhood. We love our kids so much, and we want them to be safe, happy and successful. "The Achiever" is a woman who is committed to helping her child live up to their potential. In so many ways, this has been a gift to her kids. I see the Achiever in all of us moms, and whether you feel successful right now or not, your Achiever mindset has also benefitted you

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106. Trusting Yourself to Move Forward

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2024/06/15

START HERE! This episode is an insider's guide to the Small Jar Podcast to help you get the most out of these tools. I share my perspective on the purpose of this podcast and my work as a master coach, and I'll also tell you about me and how I got here. If you’re a mom, whose kids are growing up and you are navigating the road to the empty nest, this episode will help you on your journey trust yourself as you decide how to move forward - both as a mom and as a women embarking on her next

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105. Overwhelmed by the End of the School Year?

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2024/06/08

Is it just me, or do we moms bear the brunt of the responsibility for the end of year celebrations and our kids' transition to summer? Your kidmight be taking final exams and you're supporting them through that stress.Your child could havejust graduated, and you've planned countless celebrations, hosted family, and attended endless "lasts". Or maybe your college kid is back home and suddenly there's more laundry, more mess, more groceries needed. There is so much to celebrate and look

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104. Mom Archetype #1: The Guardian

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2024/06/01

Last week I shared my own version of "mom archetypes", celebrating the many strengths and gifts that we bring to this beautiful and crazy journey of motherhood. We love our kids so much, and we want them to be safe, happy and successful. At different times and stages, any of us moms could lean on the fearless protective power of what I call "The Guardian." Join me as I explore how there is a Guardian in every one of us as moms, and how that's actually been an incredibly helpful gift--both

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What's Your Mom Archetype?

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2024/05/25

I want to celebrate how beautiful and powerful we are as moms. Butwe are all also unique in how we approach motherhood. So I thought I’d put together a bit of a Myers-Briggs or Enneagram-style view of Mom Archetypes that offers a more holistic view of who we are as moms...not defined by our challenges, but rather by our strengths. With each of these Mom Archetypes, I am taking as a given that every one of these “types” are the kind of mom who loves her kids and tries her best. And like with

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29:52

102. Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner

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2024/05/18

I have learned two incredibly important lessons over the past few years. And these lessons have made my own transition to having a child in college so much easier. Raising teens canfeel challenging. We simply want to help them be safe, happy and successful...and yet, this seems to become increasingly difficult as our teens grow up. But even when our kids don't want our help, or when we recognize that there is little that we can do actually make them happy when they're struggling, it can be

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101. Regret

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2024/05/11

"The only scarier than change is regret." Oof. I don't know who first said this, but for us moms of teens, this hits home. Our lives are constantly changing. Teens growing up. Pulling away. Facing new challenges. We are approaching a time when our kids will no longer be around as much. These changes can be scary. But often, we find ourselves stuck in guilt and regret about the past. Our parenting style and the way we've chosen to raise our kids. Our love lives. Career choices and

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100. The Managed Mindset

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2024/05/04

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99. The Judgment Mindset Type

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2024/04/27

This is the fourth in the series on the Mindset Trap Types that we can fall into as moms navigating life with teens and the transition from motherhood to the empty nest, what I call the empty nest straddle. In this episode, I explore the "JudgmentMindset Type". My friend, we all judge. We judge others, we judge our lives and how we think they "should be", we judge ourselves. And we also judge ourselves for judging all of it! Join me in this episode as I explore what part of judgment is

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98. The Validation-Seeking Mindset Type

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2024/04/20

This is the third in the series on the Mindset Trap Types that we can fall into as moms navigating life with teens and the transition from motherhood to the empty nest, what I call the empty nest straddle. In this episode, I explore the "Validation-SeekingMindset Type". Think controlling, mom-guilt, focusing on the negative, and taking responsibility to fix all of it. There is a reason that we fall into these traps that create frustration, anger, guilt and anxiety for us, and it's not

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97. The L.O.V.E. Technique

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2024/04/13

I wanted to take a big step back to give you a bit of perspective on how I approach the journey of mindset work, both in my own life and in my work with clients. And because I think it can be helpful to think of these things in terms of acronyms, I came up with the LOVE Technique. Here's what it means.L – is to Learn about how your mind creates your emotions and results.O - Observe your own mind in action as the watcher.V - Verify through your own observations the impact of your mindset.E -

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96. The Fix-It Mindset Type

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2024/04/06

I'm back withthe Mindset Trap Types that we can fall into as moms navigating life with teens and the transition from motherhood to the empty nest, what I call the empty nest straddle. In this episode, I explore the "Fix-It Mindset Type". Think controlling, mom-guilt, focusing on the negative, and taking responsibility to fix all of it. There is a reason that we fall into these traps that create frustration, anger, guilt and anxiety for us, and it's not because there's something wrong with

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95. The Worry Mindset Type

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2024/03/30

Join me as I explore the Mindset Trap Types that we can fall into as moms navigating life with teens and the transition from motherhood to the empty nest, what I call the empty nest straddle. In this episode, I explore the "Worry Mindset Type". Think catastrophizing, all or nothing thinking and fear of the unknown. There is a reason that we fall into these traps that create worry and anxiety for us, and it's not because there's something wrong with you! Join me to take a deeper diver into

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94. Mindset Trap Primer

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2024/03/23

Amindset trap is a counter-productive way of thinking motivated by your subconscious desire to seek pleasure, avoid pain, and conserve energy. Of course there are times when it's a really good thing that we are instinctively motivated to avoid pain. But in our modern world, we spend a lot of unconscious mental bandwidth trying to avoid emotional pain...and in our lives as moms of teens, there are serious consequences. Join me in this episode as I get back to basics on mindset traps and

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93. I Am Enough

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2024/03/16

What is "enough"? As moms, it can quite literally feel like what you do is never enough. Of course there's juggling all of life's responsibilities. But then, as you try your best to support your teen, it can feel like you're constantly failing. You want to believe that what you are doing is enough. But deep down inside, sometimes you wonder...am I enough? Join me as I explore this question. What would it look like to decide..."I am enough."

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92. Debunking the Empty Nest Syndrome

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2024/03/09

The empty nest syndrome is a myth. It’s a story we’ve told ourselves to explain a big transitional moment in our lives. And worse, it has the tendency to pathologize our feelings of grief and loss. Whatever you feel as you approach the empty nest – it is not a result of there being something wrong with you….it is simply a function of your perception of what this change means for you. Listen in as I debunk this myth.

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91. Embracing Mindset Traps

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2024/03/02

In our everyday lives, thereare so many opportunities for you to fall into mindset traps. As you learn about these commonmindset traps and the messages start to resonate, it’s so tempting to want to diagnose yourself. Because guess what – ifyou can diagnose the problem, then you can fix it, right? In this episode I explore how, when you actually embrace these traps, it's possible that they will let you go.

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90. Mindset Trap #14 - Illusion of Control

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2024/02/24

This is the LAST in the series on the mindset traps of the Empty Nest Straddle. This trap is by far my favorite…and when I say favorite, I obviously mean the one that challenges me the most. The "illusion of control" is at the heart of the Empty Nest Straddle…when we’re torn between feeling the need to help our kids be safe happy and successful and the powerlessness of actually being able to help them with any of these things. Power. Control. These are not words that we like to associate

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89. Mindset Trap #13 - Overgeneralization

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2024/02/17

I'm back with the last few mindset traps of the Empty Nest Straddle. In this episode, I'm tackling the trap of "Overgeneralization", where our minds draw broad, and often incorrect or at least incomplete, conclusions about the circumstances of our lives. This trap is insidious because we often have no idea we're doing it. In fact, we often think that what we observe is simply the "truth". But when we don't observe and manage this aspect of our minds, it can have disastrous consequences for

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