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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
Afraid of What I Can’t Control
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You checked their location three times before lunch. You scrolled their social media from a fake account. You asked another mom to casually find out what's going on. And the whole time, you were telling your kid how important it is to be open and honest with you.
You see the problem.
Fear doesn't announce itself. It disguises itself as vigilance, as good parenting, as just being careful. But underneath, it's running the show — whispering worst-case scenarios at 2 a.m. and convincing you that if you don't control everything, everything will fall apart.
Erica gets honest about her own season of secret surveillance and catastrophic thinking — and why it backfired. She walks through the story of Cain and Abel and the detail most people miss: God didn't abandon the rebellious son. He marked him with protection. And He's doing the same thing for your child right now.
You'll learn a daily practice for naming your fear out loud instead of letting it fester, the ACTS prayer framework for when anxiety has you paralyzed, and a 15-minute conversation to have with your teen that builds trust without surrendering your authority.
Fear tells you to clamp down or you'll lose them. But the tighter you grip, the faster they pull away. There's a braver way forward — and it starts with trusting the God you keep telling your kids to trust.
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