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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
The Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto by Brene Brown
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#108 The Wholehearted Parenting Manifest by Brene Brown
Are you as big of a Brene Brown fan as I am? When I found this manifesto on her website, I knew I needed to share it with my audience. As I begin this series into helping parents who have a child that has left the LDS church, please keep this manifesto in mind. As we work on differentiating ourselves from our children, spouse, and others, we need to keep in mind that living a wholehearted life is equal parts head work and heart work. When you don’t know what to do or what to focus on, look at this manifesto to remind you this is just as much about you showing up and living in a wholehearted way as it is anything else.
Download the free Wholehearted parenting Manifesto written by Brene Brown. Great to print off so you can have a visual reminder of what living a wholehearted life looks like from the parenting perspective.
Download the Wholehearted Parenting Manifesto by Brene Brown
Link to The Gifts of Imperfection
Tina Gosney is the Family Conflict Coach. She works with parents who have families in conflict to help them become the grounded, confident leaders their family needs.
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Tina is certified in family relationships and a trauma informed coach.
Visit tinagosney.com for more information on coaching services.