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Coaching Your Family Relationships

Is your relationship with your adult child strained, distant, or heading toward estrangement?


Do you replay conversations, walk on eggshells, or wonder what you did wrong?
Are you dealing with family conflict, difficult adult children, or toxic in-laws — and feeling powerless to fix it?

You’re not alone.

I’m Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach and Family Life Educator. I help parents move from anxiety, overfunctioning, and emotional reactivity to calm, confident connection — even when their adult child won’t change.

Grounded in Bowen Family Systems theory and nervous system science, this podcast will help you:

1. Understand why stress spreads through a family system

2. Recognize patterns like overfunctioning, fixing, triangles, and emotional cutoff

3. Stop walking on eggshells

4. Navigate adult child conflict without losing yourself

5. Repair strained relationships with your adult child in a healthy way

At the heart of this work is the Differentiated Connection Map — balancing two core needs in every family:

• Closeness and belonging
• Individuality and autonomy

Through my HEAL framework, you’ll learn how to:

Hold onto yourself
Engage with calm clarity
Allow space for difference
Lead with grounded love

You cannot control your adult child.
But you can change your position in the system.

And when one parent becomes steadier, the entire family shifts.

If you’re searching for how to repair your relationship with your adult child and reduce family conflict without losing yourself — you’re in the right place.

Coaching Your Family Relationships

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hi, I am trying to download the tools for conflict with your adult child and it's not working. Please help!! I have a conflict between my sister and parents that is awful. I'm a therapist who feels helpless . Looking for help. Thank you, Susan

Portland, Maine