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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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88. Relationship Goals: True Love

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2024/02/10

In honor of Valentine’s Day I thought I would dedicate this podcast to the goal of finding or creating more romantic love in our lives. This episode is for you no matter whether you are with someone right now or not. Whether you are with someone, getting over the pain of the end of being with someone, or just looking for someone to start a new relationship with…this conversation applies to all of us. What does it mean to find true love and what, specifically, are you looking for? In this

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87. Relationship Goals: Connection and Friendship

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2024/02/03

We need connection in our life, but we've been busy raising kids and managing hectic lives...it hasn't been easy to focus on friendship. And now that we look ahead to the empty nest, some of us find that this aspect of our lives is missing. Join me as I explore the goal of finding connection and friendship.

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86. Relationship Goals: Connecting with your teen

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2024/01/27

For most of us moms, there isn't any more important relationship in our lives than the one we have with our children. Since they came into our lives, they have been our highest priority. And for a long time, we have also been the center of our kids' lives. When did that change? In this episode I explore the goals we have around connecting with and strengthening the relationship we have with our teens. I know you are trying your best, but are you truly living into being the woman who creates

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85. The Empty Nest Straddle

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2024/01/20

As moms, we start to grapple with the loss of purpose of being a mom well before our children leave the nest…even as early as middle school.But this is what can happen...we create our own pain whenour need to hold onto our purpose of keeping our children safe, happy and successful starts to conflict with our teens’ need for independence. Join me in this episode where I explore how to stop holding on, without ever needing to let go.

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84. Habit Goals

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2024/01/13

Do you have a habit you want to change? Whether it's starting something new, or letting go of habits aren't working for you anymore, join me in this podcast as I get curious about why it's often so hard to change our habits. This is the second episode in a mini-series on themindset aspects of achieving goals. This week I'm focusing onhabit goals - this could be anything from getting more exercise to snacking, drinking or procrastinating less. This is a bit different from my typical focus on

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83. Body Goals

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2024/01/06

This is NOT another New Years podcast about losing weight or working out. As a master life coach, I am never going to tell you what you should do. You have enough of those "shoulds" in your life already. This podcast isn't about how to lose weight or get fit...this is about accessing the curiosity to understand how you are showing up in your life and how that is helping you move toward your goals or keeping you stuck. I am going to explore the mindset aspects of a number of different goals

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82. Who Will You Be in 2024?

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2023/12/30

Another new year is upon us. This year, I want to invite you to drop the same-old New Year's resolutions. Whatever your goals - whether it be to improve your relationship with your teens, find new purpose, drop bad habits, or just feel better - it's not about what you do, it's about who you decide to become. As you enter into 2024, you have the opportunity to live into thatversion ofyourself who is capable of looking at this next chapter of your life with excitement. How many times have you

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81. 12 Traps of the Holidays

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2023/12/23

The holidays bring the possibility of happiness and joy as we spend time with the people we love. For us moms, the holidays also seem to bring feelings of overwhelm, resentment and disappointment. Join me as I explore 12 of the mindset traps we can fall into during the holidays, and how to find true peace...no matter what's going on around us.

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80. Trap #12 - Mind reading

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2023/12/16

Trap #12 - Brought to you from the parking lot of the University of Delaware. Our mind's ability to interpret the facial expressions and behaviors of others is a beautiful asset, and also a terrible trap. Join me in this episode to discover why.

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79. Trap # 11 - Fear of the Unknown

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2023/12/09

One of the most universal comments I’ve heard from many of my clients is, “I don’t know what my life’s going to look like after…my kid leaves home… or because of this or that circumstance." In truth, we don’t ever know what our life is going to look like. But our minds like to be certain. They like to be able to predict the future so that we can either relax or prepare for the worst. While we can beat ourselves up for looking into the future with dread, as if there's something wrong with us

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78. Trap #10 - Labeling

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2023/12/02

I'm back with another episode on the mindset traps we face as moms with teens, as we approach the empty nest. This week, I tackle "labeling". This trap refers to our brains subconscious tendency to want to assign a simple, generalized judgment to describe characteristics of personality or behavior. On the face of it, it doesn't seem like a huge problem until we explore the unintended consequences. Words do matter. Join me as I explore how.

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77. Being Present - Part II

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2023/11/25

We often think "being present" means that we are able to cultivatea sense of peace and happiness in our lives. As much as we might want to be present, particularly during the holidays, this can be much harder than it seems. Last week, I explored the concept of holiday ambivalence - both loving and hating the holidays - and how this creates, rather than peace, a conflict in our mind as we beat ourselves up for not being more grateful and happy. I invited you to accept this concept of

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76. Being Present - Part I

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2023/11/18

When I think about holidays, I feel, on the one hand, an incredible sense of excitement and joy just by thinking about the celebratory days ahead…but I also feel a sense of overwhelm, and if I’m honest, sometimes a little dread. I often try to approach these special times by reminding myself that I want to “stay present”…enjoy every precious moment. But somehow, every year, I get sucked in by the overwhelm, dread, frustration, and honestly a little disappointment that I wasn’t able to stay

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75. The College Visit

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2023/11/11

In the span of one weekend, I went on college admissions tours at two schools with my youngest, who is a junior in high school, and then I went to Parents Weekend to visit my oldest, who is a freshman in college. These moments with our kids can carry so much emotion - pride, joy, and excitement mixed with anxiety, sadness, dread and insecurity. Join me as I reflect on my college visits - both this time and back when my oldest was going through the process - and how much I have grown and

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74. Trap #9 - Ruled by Emotion

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2023/11/04

Emotional reasoning is when we use our feelings as evidence that there’s a problem. I actually think this mindset trap is one of the most insidious thought errors we can fall into. Unlike some of the others that I’ve been exploring in this series on mindset traps we fall into as moms of teens as we approach the empty nest, this is a trap we don’t hear much about. When we engage in emotional reasoning, the reason this is such a challenging trap is that we often think we're just observing the

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73. Trap #8 - Identity Crisis

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2023/10/28

Becoming a mother has been the most important role that I’ve ever taken on. The importance and worthiness of caring for these humans being has eclipsed every other priority of my life. Being a mother has become my “identity.” But even when we have strong relationships with our kids, it’s normal for them to want to pull away as they approach college. Their desire for independence and autonomy is a normal part of the developmental process. So here we are, as moms…facing an identity crisis

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72. Conversation with Ali Flynn - Mindset of Raising...

The Almost Empty Nest—Letting Go, Redefined:... ·

2023/10/21

I'm excited to welcome Ali Flynn, founder of Hang in There, Mama, to the Small Jar Podcast this week. Ali and I share a mission of wanting to support women as they manage the ever-evolving relationship they have with their teens, and themselves, as their kids grow up. We approached this conversation from a place of curiosity, wanting to explore the different ways we have approached raising our kids - Ali a mother a four girls and me a mom of two boys. Our goal is not to provide advice, but

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71. Trap #7 - Guilt

The Almost Empty Nest—Letting Go, Redefined:... ·

2023/10/14

I’ve been exploring this series on mindset traps, and I bet you didn’t know that “guilt” was one of them. Let’s be honest, if there was a state of being that many of us moms face, it’s the state of feeling guilty.The technical term for the trap I’m exploring today is called “personalization.” Now I’ve titled this trap “guilt” for simplicity, because I am quite sure many of us identify with that word much more easily than the word “personalization”, which is the thought error, or the

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70. Trap #6 - Perfectionism

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2023/10/07

There are some among us who would call ourselves “perfectionists” and maybe others of us who wouldn’t. But what do you think the oppositive of being a perfectionist is? Have you ever thought about that? In this episode, we explore the mindset trap ofperfectionism and how it relates to our lives as moms with teens as we approach the empty nest. Here's a teaser - did you know that perfectionism actually gives us the illusion of safety. Listen to learn more.

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69. Trap #5 - All or Nothing

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2023/09/30

"All-or-nothing thinking" is a mindset trap where we can view situations in extremes. For example we think things are entirely good, or entirely bad, with no middle ground. Now, you can imagine why this type of thinking isn’t always helpful, but as with the other mindset traps, I actually think it’s more important to recognize WHY our brains engage in this type of thinking in the first place. Because again, as with the other traps, it’s perfectly normal that our brains do this. Let's

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