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Coaching Your Family Relationships: Help for Parents of Adult Children is a podcast for parents who want a healthier, more connected relationship with their adult children, especially when that relationship has become strained, distant, or difficult.
Hosted by Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach and Parent Educator, the podcast takes a whole-family approach to parent-adult child relationships. Rather than focusing only on what your adult child is doing, Tina helps you understand the larger relationship system: the patterns, emotional reactions, expectations, communication habits, nervous system responses, and family dynamics that influence how everyone shows up.
Each episode brings family science out of the textbook and into real life, helping parents understand not only what is happening in their relationships, but why it is happening and what they can do differently.
Whether your adult child has become distant, set boundaries you don’t understand, stopped communicating, or your relationship simply isn’t what you hoped it would be, this podcast will help you look at the entire relationship differently.
Because changing a family relationship doesn’t always require everyone to change. Sometimes, changing the way you participate in the relationship can change the entire system.
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My Adult Child Keeps Bringing Up the Past. What Should I Do?
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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Why So Many Families Are Falling Apart Right Now
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Failure to Launch: How to Help Your Young Adult Move Forward, with Colin and Hayley from Not Therapy
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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How to Repair Your Relationship with Your Adult Child After Hurt or Conflict: Helpful Therapy Words, part 3
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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How to Help Your Adult Child Feel Heard and Emotionally Safe: Helpful Therapy Words, part 2
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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How to Let Go of Control Without Losing Connection: Helpful Therapy Words, Part 1
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Your Adult Child Calls You a Narcissist: What Are They Really Trying to Say?
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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My Adult Child Says I Trigger Them: What Should I Do?
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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My Adult Child Says I Traumatized Them: What Should I Do?
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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My Adult Child Says I'm Gaslighting Them. What Do I Do?
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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My Adult Child Said I was Toxic. What Do I Do With That?
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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What Does It Mean When Your Adult Child Says You Don’t Respect Their Boundaries?
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Why Adult Children Go No Contact: Understanding Family Estrangement, with Dr. Rin Reczek
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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When Someone You Love Hurts You: How to Regain Emotional Stability
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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When Love Feels Like Pressure: The Hidden Conflict in Helping Too Much
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Hidden Conflict: Why Your Family Feels Tense Even When No One Is Fighting
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Grandfatherhood and Legacy: How to Be Involved Without Interfering
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Fatherhood After Your Kids Grow Up: Who Are You to Them Now?
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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How to Focus on What You Can Control When Family Relationships Are Hard
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May 25, 2026 |
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Lazy or Stuck? Why Your Adult Child Avoids Life and How to Respond
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May 19, 2026 |
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Boundaries with Your Adult Child: Stepping Back When You're Used to Being Needed
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May 12, 2026 |
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When Mother's Day Isn't Happy: Naming the Grief No One Sees
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May 05, 2026 |
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When Your Adult Child Chooses Their Spouse Over You: How to Stay Grounded
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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You Can't Fix Your Adult Child's Marriage: When You Feel Powerless, part 4
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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When Your Adult Child's Spouse is Controlling, Critical, or Cold — This Is What's Actually Happening
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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When Your Adult Child’s Spouse Misunderstands You: Stop Defending Yourself and Stay Calm (Part 3)
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Stop Blaming Yourself: When Your Adult Child’s Spouse is Anxious or Difficult, part 2
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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How to Deal with Your Adult Child’s Difficult Spouse, part 1
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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When “Good Behavior” Comes at a Cost: How Behavior-Focused Parenting Disconnects Families
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Family Reactivity and Anxiety: Why Your Relationship Feels Stuck
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Parenting Adult Children Today with Catherine Hickem
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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How to Reconnect with an Estranged Adult Child by Calming Your Righting Reflex
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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"Why Won't My Adult Child Talk to Me?" An Unhelpful Question
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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"Why Won’t My Adult Child Talk to Me?" The False Comfort of AI Answers
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Don't Wait Until They're Gone: Seeing the Sacred in the People Right in Front of You
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Powerful Lessons to Carry Into the New Year - Listener Favorites from 2025
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Why Gratitude Changes Everything: Abundance, Joy, and Healing in Family Life
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Two Communication Habits that Hurt Your Family Relationships
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Why Needing to Be Right and Staying in Control Are Hurting Your Relationship with Your Adult Child
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Raising Confident Kids Without Hovering, with Kepler Knott
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Emotionally Immature Things We Say (And Why They Don’t Work)
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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3 Shifts to Begin Solving Family Conflict – Even if You’re the Only One Trying
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Do I Have to Choose Between Peace and Honesty in My Family?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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From Victim to Empowered — How to Reclaim Agency and Accountability in Family Relationships
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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From Triggered to Centered: Tools to Rewire Your Reactions and Restore Family Peace
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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When Conflict or Silence Feels Like Love: What Fighting and Avoidance Say About Your Family
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Why Taking Care of Yourself Isn’t Selfish: How Wise Selfishness Strengthens Family Relationships
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Why Strategies Aren’t Enough to Heal Family Disconnection (And What Actually Works)
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Creating Connection in Families Facing Suicide and Addiction
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Stress: What Happens to Your Brain and Body (And How to Stay Grounded)
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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How to Rebuild Emotional Connection in Marriage with EFT Attachment Questions
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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How to Set Boundaries without Damaging the Relationship
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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How Attachment Styles Affect Your Partner Relationship and Your Whole Family
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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When It Comes Out of Nowhere: The Emotional Gut Punch
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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When Family Hurts: Why Pulling Back Isn’t Selfish—It’s Part of Healing
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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When Love Becomes Control: How Enmeshment Keeps Mothers Stuck
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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How Your Nervous System Shapes Reactions, Relationships, and Resilience with Leah Davidson
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Break the Cycle and Lead Your Family with Calm, Loving Energy and Personal Integrity
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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You’re Not Broken—You’re Becoming: What to Expect This Season
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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What Your Young Adult Child Wants You to Know
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Break Free from Perfectionism: Overcome Shame, Embrace Imperfection and Boost Self-Esteem
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Truth About Mom Guilt: Why You Feel It and How to Let It Go
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Communicate While Minimizing Conflict - 7 Keys to Staying Grounded
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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How to Stop Walking on Eggshells and Create a Healthier Relationship
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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How to Rebuild a Relationship with Your Adult Child - 5 Essential Steps
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The Power of Courage: Transforming Your Family Relationships
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Mother/Daughter Estrangement with Jodi Larae Cunningham
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Navigating Estrangement: How to Reconnect with Your Adult Child
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Why Family Drama Keeps Repeating - and How to Break the Cycle
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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The Most Common Ways Families Handle Stress
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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**Bonus Episode - Get to Know Your Host, Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Moving Through Family Conflict - Most Popular Episode of 2024
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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What's In Your Control and What Isn't - Most Popular Episodes of 2024
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Being Defensive is a Losing Strategy - Most Popular Episodes of 2024
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Unseen Mental Load of the Holidays
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Moving Through Family Conflict part 2
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Moving Through Family Conflict
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Break Free from Negativity
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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How to Ride the Waves of Life Without Drowning
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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What is in Your Control. What is Not in Your Control
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Giving Your Full Focus and Attention to Create Connection
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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How to Take a Time Out That Really Works
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Respond to Your Family Members Intentionally, Don’t React from Automatic Programming
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The One Decision that will Change Everything
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The Benefits of Going Beyond a Surface Level Relationship
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Be an Agent in Your Family
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Your Relationships are Your Response-ability
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Questions from Listeners about Establishing Healthy Boundaries
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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The One Virtue You Can Cultivate That Will Change the Foundation of Your Relationships
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Perfectionism is Damaging Our Self-esteem and Cripples Our Growth
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Why Your Self-esteem Has Such a Big Impact on Your Relationships
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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How to Connect in a Healthier Way with Your Family Through Proper Boundaries
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Moving Out of Co-dependency and into a More Mature Relationship
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Navigating Conflict within Marriage - Listeners' Questions Answered
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Dealing with Uncertainty and the Anxiety it Creates
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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How to Stop Polluting the Ecosystem of Your Relationship
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Best Way to Share Your Self-development Journey with Others
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Ask Me Anything - Listeners' Questions Answered
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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7 Common Emotional Mistakes
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May 30, 2024 |
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What's the Difference between Coaching and Therapy?
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May 21, 2024 |
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Having a Difficult Conversation without Your Emotions Taking Over
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May 14, 2024 |
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A Different View on Forgiveness
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May 07, 2024 |
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Developing Differentiation with Gina - Client Spotlight
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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How to Not Take Your Hard Week Out on Your Family
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Is it Conflict or Contention?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Defensiveness - Losing Strategy #7
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Resentful and Costly Accommodation - Losing Strategy #6
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Withdrawing from a Relationship - Losing Strategy #5
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Punishment and Retaliation - Losing Relationship Strategy #4
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Unbridled Self-expression, Losing Strategy #3
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Sneaky Ways You are Trying to Control Other People, Losing Strategy #2
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Needing to Be Right - Losing Strategy #1
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Finding Progress in Your Life
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The What, How, and Why of Setting a Relationship Goal
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Who You Think You Are Determines What You Do
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Setting a Relationship Goal with a Healthy Mindset
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Finding Joy Through Generosity - Most popular episodes of 2023
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Finding Joy Through Compassion - Most popular episodes of 2023
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Know Your Young Adult, with Caleb Price and Clarice Paulson - most popular episodes 2023
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Managing Expectations of Family Members, most popular episodes of 2023
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Finding Love For Who You Are, with Aimee Gianni, (most popular episodes of 2023
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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How to stop yelling; When other people are offended; My mother is mean – Ask me anything series
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Improving Your Relationship with Your Spouse, Being Afraid for Your Kids - Ask Me Anything Series
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Parenting Problems and Cleaning Up Your Own Side of the Street, Ask Me Anything Series
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Expectation Frustration and Processing Emotions - Ask Me Anything series
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Boundaries - When, What, How?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Five Things to Focus on When Your Child Leaves your Faith
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Focus on Planting Relationship Seeds that Give You Good Fruit
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Fear of Your Child Leaving Your Faith
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto by Brene Brown
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife - Differentiating Yourself from Your Adult Child When They Leave your Faith
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Why It's Important to Work on Your Relationship with Yourself First
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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A Good Question Leads to a Quality Answer
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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How to Help Your Single Young Adult Child, an Interview with Julie Balkman
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Stinkin Thinkin and Metacognition
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Take Radical Responsibility for Your Relationships
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 8 - Generosity
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May 30, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 7 - Compassion
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May 18, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 6 - Gratitude
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May 11, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 5 - Forgiveness
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May 04, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 4 - Acceptance
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Finding Joy part 3 - Humor
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Finding Joy, part 2 - Humility
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Finding Joy, part 1 - Perspective
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Your Journey through the Know, Love, Grow Model
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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GROW recap
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Growth Through Developing Emotional Maturity, GROW part 4
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Growing Through Conflict, with Crystal Hansen, GROW part 3
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Growing from Scarcity or Growing from Abundance, GROW part 2
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Personal and Relational Growth, with Aimee Gianni, GROW part 1
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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LOVE Recap
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Developing Love and Acceptance through Self-Compassion and Curiosity, LOVE part 4
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Loving Yourself Takes Courage, LOVE part 3
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Acceptance, Rejection, Resignation - LOVE part 2
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Finding Love For Who You Are, with Aimee Gianni (LOVE part 1)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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KNOW recap
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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KNOW part 4, Knowing Yourself Through Self-Confrontation
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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KNOW part 3, How Parents are Making Their Young Adults' Lives Harder, with Clarice Paulson and Caleb Price
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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KNOW part 2 - Expectations and Your Family Members, with Leah Davidson
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Coming to KNOW Who You Are, with Aimee Gianni
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Top 5 Lessons Learned in 2022, with Micah Gosney
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Let's talk about "Original Grace" by Adam Miller, with Micah Gosney
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Strengthening Your Marriage in Times of Stress, with Aimee Gianni
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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The Pyramid of Influence, What Other People Hear, with Brent Bartel - part 5 of 5
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Being an LGBTQ+ Family at Church with Allison Dayton from Lift + Love
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Giving and Receiving Gratitute
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Navigating the Holidays with a Mixed-Faith Family, with Jennifer Barnhart
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Pyramid of Influence - What Other People Feel, part 4 of 5
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The Pyramid of Influence - What Other People Feel, part 3 of 5
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Mastering the Pause Button
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Learning from Failure
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Pyramid of Influence with Brent Bartel, part 1 of 5
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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The Pyramid of Influence with Brent Bartel, part 2 of 5
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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The Way Other People Treat You Gives You Information
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Processing Emotions
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Let People Tell You Things You Don't Want to Hear
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Slow Down and Stop Being So Reactionary
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Stop Beating Yourself Up for Not Being Better in the Past
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Family Vacations and Reunions: Wanting Everyone to Get Along and Have a Good Time
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Four Relationship Killers and What to Do With Them
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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W.A.I.T. Before You Talk
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Creating the Relationship You Want to Have
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Forgiveness as a Path to Personal Healing
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Bonus episode - the "How to Have a Hard Family Conversation without the Overwhelm" workshop
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Apologizing Will Help Repair and Strengthen a Relationship
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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"Do I Like the Person I'm Being in This Relationship?" A question to ask yourself.
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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When Life's Storms Hit, What Are You Going to Do?
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Is My Child Identifying as LGBTQ a Phase? A Conversation with Heather Frazier
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Doing Hard Things Makes Life Easier
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May 26, 2022 |
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Recognizing Grief and How it Shows Up, with Stephanie Pickle
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May 19, 2022 |
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Conditional vs Unconditional Love
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May 12, 2022 |
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Mothers - Stop Setting Yourself Up for Failure
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May 05, 2022 |
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Investing in the Mother is Vital to the Health of the Family
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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3 Reasons You Are Struggling Because of Unmet Expectations
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Let's Talk About "All Things New" by Fiona and Terryl Givens
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Stop Reacting and Start Responding
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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The Power of Curiosity
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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What the Heck is Trauma at Church?! A conversation with Lindsay Poelman
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Exhausting Yourself with Worry About Your Child
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Kids
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Saying Things You Wish You Never Would Have Said
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Love and Peace with Your LGBTQ+ Child, with Meagan Skidmore
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Barriers That Get in the Way of Us Loving Others
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Finding Unconditional Love No Matter What
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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When Parenting Brings up Shame
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Sara Brewer and Overcoming Pornography
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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What Being Emotionally Mature Looks Like in Your Life
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Most Efficient and Effective Way to Help Your Family in 2022
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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What to Do When You and Your Spouse Disagree About Your Child
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Finding Joy in the Middle of Really Difficult Circumstances
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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How Parenting Detours Affect Your Marriage, with Aimee Gianni
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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When you say, "It's all my fault"
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Comparing Yourself to Others and Coming Up Short
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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The Importance of Gratitude
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Allowing Your Child to Write Their Own Story
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Show Up as Your Best Self During the Holidays
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Expecting Other People to Be Different Than They Are
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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How to Have a Hard Conversation
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Parents' Hardest Questions Answered
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Bridging the LGBTQ Gap in the LDS Church
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Why Your Thoughts are So Important
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Showing Unconditional Love to Your Child
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Crystal Hansen - Helping Your Family Member with Addiction
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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When You Tell Yourself You Don't Know What to Do
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Viewing Your Parenting Role with a Stewardship Lens
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Dealing with Difficult People Part 2
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Dealing with Difficult People, part 1
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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The Importance of Allowing Yourself to Grieve
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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How to Stop Feeling Like a Failure
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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What to Do When You're Offended
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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How to Find Emotional Resilience
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Tom Christofferson - Finding Connection and Understanding with your LGBTQ Child
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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The Most Important Relationship in Your Life
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Jul 06, 2021 |