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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
When Your Child Pulls Away
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They're alive. You could call them right now. But the relationship you had is gone, and no one brought you flowers or started a prayer chain for that kind of loss.
Moms who've lived it call it the same thing: death without a funeral. You carry it alone because unless someone's been there, they can't imagine it. And the grief doesn't follow a straight line. One day you're furious. The next you'd give anything for a hug. One minute you're judging their choices. The next you're ready to fight anyone else who does.
Erica names the silent grief of estrangement and why it's so disorienting. She unpacks why this loss is uniquely complicated: your child is still making choices that can rip the rug out from under your healing without warning. She challenges the secular psychology advice to just let them go, and explains why silence gets twisted into apathy faster than you think.
You'll walk away with one powerful exercise: writing the single thing you'd want your child to know if you only got one shot.
This grief doesn't have a name. But it does have a God who is close to the brokenhearted. And He hasn't stopped working.
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