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

Imagine your dream, initially, as something that exists outside of you. It’s separate from you and offers an imagined possibility for you or your future. It’s not yet who you are, and you don’t yet know how to get there. But before you can even start, you have to be willing to dream. To imagine the possibilities of what COULD be. Sometimes we are caught up in not know the "how" of pursuing our goals. In this episode, we explore why focusing on the how is often the reason we are not

One of the hard parts about feeling emotionally overwhelmed is that it feels like it’s happening to you. In our effort to feel better, we often end up creating more pain for ourselves and then judging ourselves for not handling it better. In this episode, we explore how to hold space for our pain.

Whether married (happily or unhappily), divorced (happily or unhappily) or single (happily or unhappily)…the grass isn’t greener. So if these circumstances don’t guarantee love or happiness, then how can we ever actually find love and happiness?

It seems like a fact that in order to accomplish any goal you have to be motivated. But what happens when we don’t feel motivated? In this episode we explore how the way we think about motivation can sometimes hold us back.

We want our children to be happy, healthy, safe and successful. But as our children grow up to be teens, we realize that the way they pursue their own potential, even the way they fulfill their basic needs, may be at odds with what we want for them. In this episode, we explore how to bridge the gap.

As mothers, in our 40s and 50s, we face so many circumstances out of our control and so many of them feel like loss. Preparing to send our children to college, letting go of our youth, saying goodbye to relationships with our partner or others in our lives...this space between motherhood and the empty nest feels like a long goodbye. In this episode, we explore how to begin to write a new story where we get to decide who we are and what we want to create.