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When Our Adult Children Walk Away
Podcasting since 2023 • 44 episodes
When Our Adult Children Walk Away
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Crossed Wires: The Role of Emotional Incest in Estrangement
Premier Content - Subscriber-only EpisodeHi Listeners. I'd love to hear from you. Send an email to Janet@jesteinkamp. It is not possible to respond to your Fan Mail posts directly.This one’s tough—there’s no getting around it. An...
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The Hardest Days: What is a high risk day and how to prepare (Overview) Episode 1 of 5
Some days are more difficult than others. Some days shine a spotlight on our estrangement grief - the silence and loneliness. These are high-risk days. On high-risk days, the silence can be deafening. High-risk days trigger more intense feeling...
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When Mother’s Day Hurts: 10 Reasons Our Kids Pull Away
Mother’s Day can bring up a lot of emotional turmoil, can trigger our grief, and can shine a light on the empty chair at the dinner table - especially when your relationship with your adult child feels broken or distant. In this epi...
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Managing High-Risk Days: How to Protect Your Heart, Mind and Future Relationship
Whether it's a holiday, birthday, or significant life event, high-risk days may – usually do - heighten the pain, loneliness and embarrassment of estrangement. In this episode of When Our Adult Children Walk Away, Dr. Janet Steinkamp o...
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Close But Different: Rejection vs Dejection
If you’re experiencing some degree of estrangement, you have almost certainly experienced the sting of rejection and the emotional gut punch of dejection. When some part of our involvement in our relationship is rejected, we can become overwhel...
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Fan Mail
Thank you for these episodes. I am an adult child reconsidering my relationship with my father who has moved on with a new relationship less than one year after the death of my mother. Your advice is helping me understand the perspective he would have but also emboldens me to really think about my life and what this all means. I appreciate the advice to allow space to do work rather than react with regret.
Denton, Texas