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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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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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68. Trap #4 - Comparison

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2023/09/23

We are hard-wired we are to compare ourselves to others. We don't like to admit it, because we think judging others is "bad", and we know it doesn’t feel good when others are judging us. But the reality is that this activity of our brain is subconscious and automatic. In fact, like the other mindset traps I've been exploring in this series, the "comparison trap" is our brain's way of keeping us safe and comfortable. But if we allow our brain to fall into this trap without supervision, we

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67. Trap #3 - Validation Seeking

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2023/09/16

Over the past few episodes of the Small Jar podcast, we have bene exploring the mindset traps of life with teens and the empty nest. We've covered confirmation bias and catastrophizing. This week, we explore validation seeking, orlooking for external validation, approval, or recognition from others. Feeling good when others give us love or praise is natural. The question we include in this episode is why do we sometimes feel like we need this external validation in order to feel what we

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66. Trap #2 - Catastrophizing

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2023/09/09

This is the second in a new series on the Small Jar Podcast about the mindset traps that keep us stuck in anxiety, sadness, and an inability to move forward. In this episode, I explore the trap of catastrophizing, or ruminating in the worst case scenario. While this mindset trap keeps us cycling in worry, there are reasons that our minds engage in this type of thinking. The key to overcoming catastrophizingis to understand how it helps us, and how it does not.

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65. Trap #1 - Confirmation Bias

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2023/09/02

Mindset traps are available to all of us, at all stages of our lives. But for those of us navigating life with teens and the transition to the empty nest, we can fall prey to these traps in a way that keeps us stuck in anxiety, sadness, and an inability to move forward. In this episode, I explore the trap of confirmation bias, and how this tendency of our brains toreinforce our own view of the world can create results that are the opposite of what we really want. This is the first in a new

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64. Running Out of Time

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2023/08/26

Have you heard the statistic that by the time your child is 18 that you'll have spent 90% of the time that you'll ever spend with them in your life? This is the kind of information that can not only cause us to think that we've wasted some of the most precious years of our kids' lives, but also make us think that we have very little time left. Cue regret, sadness and anxiety! In this episode I explore a different perspective on time, and how to embrace the remaining "10%".

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63. Your Vision for Success as a Mom

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2023/08/19

Have you ever stopped to think about how you define your success as a mom? What does success look like to you? And how do you measure it? Whether you realize it or not, you have in your mind a vision for success, and your mind is constantly evaluating whether or not you meet the mark. In this episode, we explore how to take ownership of this vision so that we are not only intentional about what we want for ourselves as moms and for our kids, but also so we can find compassion and love for

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62. Lifelong Connection with Your Big Kids - Special...

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2023/08/12

I was honored to have author, influencer, connector and founder of Moms of Bigs, Esther Joy Goetz join me to talk about the lifelong journey of being a mom and how to create a lifelong connection with your children. Esther's motte is to "give our BIG KIDS (teens and young adults) the roots of love and the wings of freedom to be completely themselves." In our conversation, we explored how to do this, but even more, how to find love and compassion for ourselves in the process. Motherhood is

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61. Why You Can't Let Yourself Off the Hook

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2023/08/05

As women, as moms, we're really hard on ourselves. Like...so hard. There are so many ways we talk down to ourselves, and we're so used to it that we don't even realize we're doing it any more. But it can also feel like letting ourselves off the hook and giving ourselves some grace feels like giving up. This is particularly true when it comes to what we want for our kids and how hard we're willing to fight to help them be happy, healthy and successful. In this episode, I explore why it's so

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60. Preparing for College Move-In Day

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2023/07/29

College move-in day is looming and so many of us moms are feeling sad, and beating ourselves up for it. In this episode, I explore the shame we can feel as we compare the way we are handling this transition as we compare ourselves to other moms. Our emotional experience is entirely valid based on our own unique perspective. But that emotional experience also impacts how we show up. And in this moment as both we and our children face once of the biggest transitions of our lives, we have the

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59. The Dream Teen Checklist: Special Group Coaching...

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2023/07/22

Join me for a sneak peak into one of Small Jar's recent Group Coaching Workshops, where we explore the topic of relationships, particularly the dream relationship we want with our teenager. In coaching, almost any topic we explore often comes down to relationships...those we have with others, and also the one we have with ourselves. In this episode, I have omitted the individual coaching to respect the privacy of those brave enough to get coached in front of the group, but this episode

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58. Thinking Happy Thoughts

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2023/07/15

Just telling yourself to think happy thoughts just doesn't work. How many times has a well-meaning friend tried to offer you a different perspective on a problem and you’ve felt completely frustrated or discounted. Look, if it was so easy to just change our minds, then we would all be walking around feeling happy all the time, right? But that’s just not reality.In this episode, I explore the alternative to just thinking happy thoughts if you really want to find peace.

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57. Being Alone with Yourself

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2023/07/08

When our kids are leaving the nest, it seems so obvious that the solution is to find new purpose. But the real problem isn’t that we can’t find purpose, it’s that we’re afraid of being alone with ourselves. We think that we can’t find joy or purpose without something outside of us to create it for us. I want to invite you to consider that the most important purpose you have right now is to create a deeper relationship with yourself…one where you don’t need anything outside of yourself to

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56. What You Really Want

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2023/07/01

As moms, we want our kids to be happy, safe and successful. And we are willing to do anything and everything we can to help them achieve this. Only, during the teen years, these goals seem next to impossible to accomplish sometimes. We're left feeling angry and anxious. In this episode, I explore how to get what you really want.

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55. Redefining Your Purpose in the Empty Nest

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2023/06/24

When we think about purpose, we so often think about doing something. After being busy parents for so long, it might seem like the biggest challenge we face after our kids leave is figuring out how to fill our time. Similar to the reason some of us might have chosen to become parents in the first place—we don’t want to feel bored…or guilty that we’re not doing something meaningful or important. In this episode, I explore what it might really look like to redefine our purpose.

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54. Resentment

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2023/06/17

There are some feelings we don't want to feel so much we can find ourselves eating, drinking and distracting ourselves just to feel better. For me, resentment is one of those emotions. In this episode, I explore the many reasons we moms can feel resentment...and how to let it go.

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53. When Kids Return to the Nest

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2023/06/11

They leave...and then they come back! Sometimes for the summer, but increasingly they return home after college graduation, or stay after high school graduation. As much as we love our kids, and as hard as it is when they leave, it can be challenging for many reasons when they come home. In this episode, we explore why having our kids back in the nest is so hard.

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52. Getting Your Teen to Listen

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2023/06/03

We desperately want a positive relationship with our teens,but when we think that our relationship is challenging and not what it used to be….this brings us so much pain. We try everything to fix the relationship, repair our communication with them….resolve the conflict…get them to listen! We just want to feel close to them again. We want them to be safe and move in the right direction. Everything we want….we KNOW it’s for their own good. They’ll be happier if only…And so it’s interesting

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51. Graduation Day

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2023/05/28

This is it. Graduation Day. A day that brings so much celebration and promise...but also a day that brings us moms nostalgia, fear, regret, sadness...In this episode I work through my own emotions as I prepare to celebrate my own son's graduation. Join me in venturing into a world of endless possibilities.

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50. You Can't Afford NOT to Invest in Yourself

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2023/05/21

Everyone is WORTHY. Period. Everyone is valuable. Period. And everyone deserves to have support when they need it. The people we love mean well, but they have their own opinions about what we should do. Sometimes what we need is an unbiased, listening ear, who can help us see the truth inside ourselves that we can't see. In this episode, I explore the ways life coaching and therapy can help us find peace and our own truth. Your well-being is priceless. And your life is waiting for you to

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