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Momentum Podcast with Erica Wiggenhorn
When your child pulls away, pushes back, or makes choices that break your heart, motherhood can feel like a weight of fear, guilt, and grief you carry alone. The silence at the dinner table. The text that never gets returned. The argument that erupts out of nowhere. These moments can quietly convince you that you've failed.
The Momentum Podcast is where host Erica Wiggenhorn meets moms in that painful space with honest conversation, practical tools, and biblical truth that actually holds weight in the hard moments. Drawing from her own raw experiences, current research, and her book Loving Your Wayward Child, Erica walks through the real challenges of parenting teens, young adults, and estranged children, from navigating volatile conversations to setting boundaries without severing connection.
This isn't a podcast that rushes past your pain with easy answers. It's one that helps you move closer to Jesus so He can move your family closer together, one faithful step at a time.
Momentum Podcast with Erica Wiggenhorn
How to Stay in the Conversation Without Losing It
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Your kid finally tells you something real. Something vulnerable. And before you even realize it, you've explained why they're wrong, justified the other person, and offered three solutions they didn't ask for.
Now they're shut down. Again. And you're replaying it at midnight wondering why they never talk to you anymore.
Erica breaks down why silence isn't the peacekeeper you think it is — and why lectures only convince your teen that you don't trust them to think. Then she teaches the Reflect Then Ask method: a simple conversation technique her own mom used that keeps defenses down and connection open, even when what your kid is saying makes your brain short-circuit.
You'll learn the one question that turns a brewing fight into an actual conversation, why collaborative decision-making builds more respect than laying down the law, and what research from UCLA says about why connection — not control — is what actually protects your teen.
Your influence isn't gone. But the way you've been using it might be pushing them further away. There's a better way — and it starts with fewer words and better questions.
Grab your free EBook on Prayers to Pray for your Hardest Motherhood Moments + From Despair to Repair: Your Personal Podcast Companion Journal
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