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Coaching Your Family Relationships: Help for Parents of Adult Children
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.
Coaching Your Family Relationships: Help for Parents of Adult Children
Parenting Adult Children Today with Catherine Hickem
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Episode 206: Parenting Adult Children Today with Catherine Hickem
Are you parenting your adult children with the same mindset you had when they were little? It might be time for a shift.
In this powerful episode, I'm joined by Catherine Hickem, a licensed therapist and founder of Parenting Adult Children Today. We talk about the emotional journey of parenting grown kids and why so many families are experiencing estrangement and emotional disconnection.
Catherine brings decades of experience, both professional and personal, to this conversation. She shares her own heartfelt story of healing with her father, the powerful restoration that took place between them, and why she believes it’s never too late to repair a family relationship.
We cover:
- Why parenting adult children requires a different mindset than parenting younger kids
- How unconscious expectations can damage connection
- The role of fear, disappointment, and emotional reactivity in estrangement
- What it really means to “do your own work” as a parent
- How emotional maturity and self-awareness create safety for adult children
- Practical first steps for shifting how you show up in your relationships
This episode is packed with wisdom and hope. If you’ve ever felt like you “did your best, but your child still won’t talk to you,” or you’re asking, “why won’t my adult child talk to me?” this conversation will speak directly to your heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- Catherine’s work at Parenting Adult Children Today
- The importance of emotional healing and growing self-awareness
- The idea that our success as parents isn’t how our children turn out, it’s how we show up
This is how you know if you need help with this…
- You’re walking on eggshells around your adult child
- You’re carrying guilt, fear, or confusion about what went wrong
- You feel like your adult child is pulling away and you don’t know why
- You want to reconnect but don’t know where to start
- You find yourself stuck in anxiety, reactivity, or resentment
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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If you want support putting what you’re learning into practice, come join The Connection Community in Bridge to Connection. This is the perfect spot where you can learn, connect and get targeted help to start moving your relationship with your adult child in a different direction. Set up a Connection Clarity Call with Tina to see if this is a good fit for you: CLICK HERE TO SET UP A CALL
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Tina is certified in family relationships and a trauma informed coach.
Visit tinagosney.com for more information on coaching services.