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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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30. When Our Kids Come Home for the Holidays

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2022/12/04

Most of us can’t wait for our kids to come home. We’ve missed them so much. Their empty room is finally filled again. We get to revisit all of our beloved traditions. We fill the refrigerator with their favorite foods. We envision the joy of spending time with them. The relief of having them safe under our roof again. It’s amazing. Except….when it isn’t. Don’t get me wrong….we love our kids. We’re so happy to have them home….but…we also findourselves feeling…. disappointed, frustrated,

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29. Creating Purpose from Pain

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2022/11/25

One of the interesting aspects of being in this time of life in our 40s and 50s…is that there is such an incredible opportunity in front of us…to create something new for our lives, but that it often feels incredibly difficult for many of us to move toward this opportunity for a variety of reasons. We might call it lack of motivation, anxiety, worry about our children... In this episode, I talk about how to move through the emotional pain that we can experience during this transitional time

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28. Early Decision Anxiety

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2022/10/30

The college process is complex, competitive and stressful. We want desperately to support them and help them be successful through the process, but somehow we are left feeling anxious and frustrated. In this episode we explore how the way we and our children view this process can often leave us at odds...and how we can begin to make the process a little easier on our children...and ourselves.

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27. Feeling Better about the Worst Case Scenario

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2022/10/24

As your child leaves the nest, it's not uncommon for us as mothers to feel anxious about the worst case scenario. No matter how many times you try to tell yourself it will all turn out ok, it’s often hard for our brains to accept that possibility with any degree of comfort.In this episode, we explore new ways of thinking about our anxiety so that we can begin to move toward acceptance and living in the present moment of the reality of what is.

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23:52

26. Making Room for Joy

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2022/09/26

There are times in life when it feels easy to find joy...and other times, where joy and peace seem to allude us. We try to capture joy by doing things that make us happy. But this doesn't work in the long run. We also try to change the circumstances of our lives, particularly other people, to try and feel better. This also rarely works. In this episode, we explore the three ways to create room for joy, even in the midst of pain.

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25. Allowing Pain

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2022/09/18

When you are in emotional pain, it is so hard to find the energy to focus on your goals and move forward. There are so many reasons that we might be in pain. I can’t possibly do justice to all of them in one episode. In this episode, rather than focusing on any one emotion of pain, we address how we respond to our pain…and also, why it’s so hard to find the lessons that our pain might be teaching us.

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24. Letting Go So Your Child Can Fly

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2022/09/05

As our kids become young adults, there is so much new territory for US as parents to navigate. Where is the rule book? Please, someone give me a strategy that works without fail. Because look, we’re all human. And even experts must struggle in the relationships they have with their own teens and young adults. Because it’s one thing to execute a strategy when there’s no emotion. When you don’t have skin in the game. But these are our kids. Our life’s work. The perceived stakes of “doing it

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23:28

23. Reframing the Side Hustle

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2022/08/10

It's not just about the money. The "side hustle" is an incredible opportunity to pursue something you are really passionate about. As we contemplate the empty nest, so often we rush to fill our time so that we don't feel so...Empty. Stuck. Bored.Frustrated. Resentful. But have you considered that the possibilities in front of you are infinite? It's not just about getting a job. Or changing jobs. In this episode we explorehowopening your mind up to the possibilities of your life may unveil

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24:13

22. College Move-In Day

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2022/08/01

It doesn’t matter if the college drop off will happen in a few weeks or a few years….it doesn’t matter if it’s your oldest or your youngest…there is something about the college move-in day that can fill us—as mothers—with absolute dread. As you imagine standing on the green, about to say goodbye. What comes up for you? Most likely pride, love and excitement. But also potentially overwhelm, anxiety, and sadness. In this episode we explore the many emotions that challenge us as we think about

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21:50

21. Peace & Loneliness in the Empty Nest

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2022/07/17

So often over the past 17+ years, I have longed for more peace in my life.There is something about having children that makes you wonder what you even spent your time doing before you had kids. Given how overwhelming and busy our lives have been for the past 15, 20, 30 years of raising kids…one would think that we would fully embrace the moment when circumstances of our lives became still and we could breathe.But then…there is the reality of the day when your kids are no longer at home. And

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23:11

20. Job Satisfaction

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2022/07/10

As our children grow up and leave the nest, we have an opportunity to re-focus on our professional careers. But when we think about job satisfaction, we tend to focus more on what we don't like about particular jobs rather than really taking a step back to understand what job satisfaction really means for us. In this episode, we take a look at how to create job satisfaction for ourselves--and perhaps even more important, how to create opportunities for personal growth and emotional

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17:54

19. Fear of What Ifs

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2022/06/30

When it comes to our children...the people we love...we often can’t help ourselves but think endlessly of all of the terrible things that might happen. The What Ifs. As our children become adults, we have less ability to protect them from the dangers out there waiting for them. So we imagine these dangers and bring the PAIN of that projected danger into our present moment. In this episode, we talk about why our minds think this worry is so important, and how we can begin to see the "What

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18. Finding Love

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2022/06/20

Whether you are already in a relationship, wondering whether you should stay in a relationship, or looking for love…this one’s for you. How do you find love? Here's the thing about love…we’re frequently looking for somebody else to create the feeling of love for us. But if somebody else is responsible for how I feel, that’s a pretty helpless and powerless place to be. And I think that’s why love can be so painful so much of the time. Because if we don’t receive love in the way we want to

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17. Filling the Empty Nest

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2022/06/13

The empty nest. Think about the visual image of what is implied by the phrase, the "empty nest." The nest is a home, and its purpose is to keep eggs and baby birds safe until they are ready to fly off on their own. But what happens then? After the adorable baby birds grow up and leave the nest? In my head, I conjure up an image of a literal empty nest. Barren cold. Lonely. Without purpose. Empty. Now, not all of us look at the empty nest in such a negative light. But even the concept of the

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16. When Your Best Isn't Good Enough

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2022/06/02

Have you ever found yourself saying, “I am literally doing the best I can….and it’s not enough.” We are trying our best. We have the best intentions. We think we have done everything that we could have done. And yet…things go wrong. Our kids get into trouble. People get angry at us. We disappoint ourselves... In this episode we explore feelings of powerlessness related to things that have happened in the past that make us feel frustrated, guilty, and even ashamed. These emotions can feel

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22:45

15. Powerlessness. When Your Child Pulls Away.

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2022/05/15

As we watchourchildrengrow up, we experience so many beautiful emotions. But we can also experience a wide range of challenging emotions—like worry, fear, anxiety, and frustration. When we worry or feel fear, we are typically imagining a negative future outcome that we want to avoid. And when we feel frustration—we are typically looking at a situation and thinking of all of the ways it should be different. And when we feel this way, we try to control our children. We try to convince them

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14. Mom, CEO of Home Inc.

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2022/05/07

Moms are the CEO of Home Inc. Now, I want to be clear…I’m not saying this to be cute or cheeky. I certainly do not want to in any way come across as belittling stay-at-home moms. In fact, I believe that being a stay-at-home mom is a full-time (or more than full-time) job for which we are not paid. Although I am sure we as mothers could all agree that raising a family is important work, we sometimes tend to discount the work in our minds because it’s not quote/unquote “professional.” In this

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13. Judging Ourselves

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2022/05/01

80% of the thoughts we have each day are negative--and many of these thoughts are judgments about ourselves. You have probably heard that the best way to combat negative self-talk is with mindfulness, gratitude, and just "loving yourself." But it's difficult to change your mind when you have been thinking the same negative thoughts about yourself for as long as you can remember. In this episode we explore how our thoughts about our bodies and the view we have about ourselves as

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12. If They Would Just Do What We Want

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2022/04/17

Is there someone in your life who just doesn't listen? Who never does what you want them to do? A husband or ex-husband? A boss? Your child? Your mother?? When people disagree with us or do things we thing are just wrong, we get angry and frustrated. We feel helpless, because no matter what we do, no matter how much we argue and explain to them why they are wrong, they don't change. In this episode we explore how to take ownership of our emotional life in a way that is no longer dependent

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11. Having It All

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2022/04/10

What does “having it all” even mean? Although we tend to think of it as having some perfect balance of career, family, love, friendship and wellness, I think we have to be clear that, “having it all” is in the eye of the beholder. There is absolutely no one way to pursue the game of life as a woman. In this episode, we explore some of the ways women in their 40s and 50s have felt it is impossible to have it all.In your life today…how are you still constraining your choices? What is holding

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