Loving On Purpose
Are you loving your adult child on purpose? Are you choosing love over judgement of them? If you want to know what is getting in the way of improving your relationship with your adult children, in this podcast I will teach what the real problem is keeping you from accomplishing this goal. I am the mother of five children and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know the struggle that comes with navigating a relationship with an adult child. I have learned how to choose to love my children exactly the way they are.
Episodes
119 episodes
How to Enjoy Mother's Day
The most dreaded day of the year for many Mothers. My heart goes out to those who could never be a mother whether it be from not getting married to infertility problems.Any enjoyment we get from life is generated by our thoughts. &nbs...
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Episode 120
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43:25
Being Willing to Wait for a Better Connection With an Adult Child
Have you given up hope on actualizing a better relationship with an adult child?This episode is for YOU! Our biggest roadblock is not being willing to wait for them to want a connection with us. And it does happen. I share...
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Episode 119
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28:02
Creating the Life You Want to Live
Are you feeling unimportant because your child don't call you or invite you out to dinner? Are you frustrated because you always have to reach out to them? Are you disappointed on your birthday because they didn't plan a celebration...
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Episode 118
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17:12
Is God Disappointed in Me? - An interview with Kurt Francom
I'm interviewing my good friend Kurt Francom who is the founder and executive director of the non-profit organization , Leading Saints. He also has a weekly podcast by the same name, which I highly recommend. His mission is to help ...
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Episode 117
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36:11
How To Solve Any Problem
What you think is the problem between you and your adult children is probably not what you think it is. We were raised to believe that the way they behave toward us causes us to feel a certain way. If they have very little contact w...
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37:31
Different Groupings of Family Members Can Cause Different Results
Isn't it great when all of your family members can gather together? We all have different opinions as to why or maybe even why not. I am sharing some of my observations in navigating life with adult children of how different topics ...
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Episode 115
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32:37
Fulfilling Your Own Needs Through Friends
Many of us had expectations of when we had adult children what life would be like. We thought we would be involved in their lives. When this expectation or need is not fulfilled we often feel unimportant and unloved. As an adu...
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Episode 114
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38:38
When You Dislike Your Adult Child
All of us have people in our lives that we dislike. It seems especially painful when we dislike and finally own that we really don't like one our adult children. Sometimes we try to move too fast out of feeling this way instead of "being"...
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Episode 113
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27:28
Emotional Self-Care
The freedom to be free of non-serving emotions, feelings that don't help us live emotionally healthy lives, can happen in our lives when we are trained in how to have thoughts that empower us and give us permission to be ourselves. First,...
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Episode 112
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36:51
Marriage
Our relationship with our spouse is probably the relationship we should be spending the most time strengthening. I believe families can be together forever, even after we die. But I have millions of ancestors and could potentially h...
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Episode 111
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45:28
Fear of Losing Our Relationship with an Adult Child
Do you fear your adult children may cut you off from having any contact with their family and your grandchildren if you disappoint them? Feeling this way does not help in building a good relationship with them. And feeling fearful is one ...
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Episode 110
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32:17
When Your Adult Children Are Disappointed In You
It's wonderful all the adult opinions there are out there in the world. When we collaborate we have come up with some amazing creations, inventions, advancements in medicine and technology. But we humans often struggle in our relati...
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Episode 109
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23:11
How To Create the Results You Want in Your Life
We are the creators of our experiences in our lives. If you don't like the results of the circumstances or happenings in your life, you can change them by changing how you want to feel, or contribute, or be in response to your circumstanc...
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Episode 108
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39:02
Miracles Happen
I share in this episode three stories of past clients who loved their estranged children enough to wait until their children were ready to heal the relationship. I recieved three emails within a month from these past clients exclaiming th...
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Episode 107
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22:42
Our Feelings Determine How We Show Up Around Our Adult Children
What causes us to not always act like the kind, loving parent we want to be to our adult children? No. It's not because they are unkind and unloving. It's because you may think you are feeling love for your child but perhaps y...
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Episode 106
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27:44
How Cleaning Out Your Mind Can Improve Your Relationship With an Adult Child
We clean our houses more than we clean out our minds. When we practice getting rid of some of the harmful thoughts we hang onto in our minds we free ourselves to choose thoughts that serve us and help us to see things from a more benefici...
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Episode 505
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20:26
When Our Adult Children Don't Fulfill Our Needs
Not many parents talk about their relationships with their adult children especially if they are struggling in it. Nobody told us we would be expecting our needs would be met at this time in our lives by our involvement with our adult kid...
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Episode 104
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44:23
Faith
Faith to me is knowing God conspirers in my favor. Faith is knowing that God knows what's best for us and has a plan to get His children back to Him. Faith causes me to not give up on my adult children. Faith is knowing ...
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Episode 103
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23:06
How To Stop Judging
We know we judge others, especially our adult children, too often but we don't know how to stop. Even knowing that we don't like how we feel when we're judging them doesn't making us stop. We think we have some control over them li...
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Episode 102
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23:43
How I Teach People to Solve Their Problems with Their Adult Children Using the Teachings of Jesus Christ
I can help people solve any problem with their adult child but that's not entirely true. The teachings of Jesus Christ show us the way to solve any problem. What I do is show people how to apply the teachings in their lives and wher...
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Episode 101
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22:04
100 Ways to Show Your Adult Children You Love Them
No excuses now. I offer you 100 ways you can show your adult children you love them even if they don't share their love back with you. Love is always a choice. Love just loves. Love will always feel best.
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Episode 100
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23:28
Gratitude Revisited
This is a replay of a podcast I published a year ago but I felt it worth rebroadcasting it.The most healthiest emotion we can have is gratitude. When we are thankful for all the good things in life we enjoy we have a better connection...
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Episode 99
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31:51
How to Interrupt a Negative Thought Cycle
Are there times you feel consumed by the thoughts ruminating in your head over how you're being treated by your adult children? And then these thoughts start impacting other relationships that are important to you. You feel mise...
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Episode 98
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21:37
When You are Being Emotionally Abused by Your Adult Children
Do you really want to show up at Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner when you know you're going to be emotionally abused? The better question to ask is do you know you have a choice? What is the reason you'd be going? Do you like...
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Episode 97
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40:16
Start taking Action To Show Your Love
We usually use the Model to get a result we want in our lives by focusing on the feeling we want to feel and change our thoughts to cause that feeling. In this episode I'm giving attention to the action line of the model and how changing ...
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Episode 96
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24:50