Coaching Your Family Relationships

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 125 Finding the Progress in Your Life This is part 4 in a 4-part series on setting relationship goals. You can accomplish less than you think you’re supposed to in the short-term and much more than you think you can in the long-term. Relationships are not sprints; they are marathons. Let time work on your side but s...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 124 The What, How, and Why of Setting a Relationship Goal This is part 3 in a 4-part series on setting relationship goals. This episode gets down to the nitty-gritty of what to focus on, how to create a system that works, and how to stay focused on what you want to create and why.  James Clear, author of “Atomic Hab...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 123 Who You Think You Are Determines What You Do This is part 2 in a 4-part series on setting relationship goals. This episode is all about using your identity – who you believe you are – to help you make the changes you want vs. trying to force yourself to behave differently than you have in the past.  Working to c...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 122 - Setting a Relationship Goal with a Healthy Mindset This is part 1 of a 4 part series on setting relationship goals. We often set goals from a place of lack or of feeling like we are not enough just as we are. This makes the journey to achieving the goal feel terrible, and we often get discouraged, give up, and...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Finding Joy Through Generosity - Most popular episodes of 2023 This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded earlier this year in the "Finding Joy" series, which aired in April and May 2023. This episode came in as the most popular episode of 2023 – Finding Joy through Generosity. Want more balance and peace in you...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Finding Joy Through Compassion - Most popular episodes of 2023 This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded earlier this year in the "Finding Joy" series, which aired in April and May 2023. This episode came in 2nd in the most popular episodes of 2023 – Finding Joy through Compassion. Want more balance and peace i...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 119 This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded earlier this year with Clarice Paulson and Caleb Price. It was part of the Know, Love, Grow series that aired January, February, March 2023. This episode came in 3rd in the most popular episodes of 2023 – Knowing your Young Adult, with Caleb Price and Clarice Paulson...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 118 This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded earlier this year with Leah Davidson. It was part of the Know, Love, Grow series that aired January, February, March 2023.  This episode came in 4th in the most popular episodes of 2023 – Expectations and Your Family Members, with Leah Davidson Want more balance and p...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 117 This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded earlier this year with Aimee Gianni. It was part of the Know, Love, Grow series that aired January, February, March 2023.  This episode came in 5th in the most popular episodes of 2023 – Finding Love for Who You Are, with Aimee Gianni Want more balance and peace in yo...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 116: How to stop yelling; When other people are offended; My mother is mean – Ask Me Anything Series Another “Ask Me Anything” podcast where listeners send in their questions to be answered on the podcast.  Here are the questions asked and answered this week: Question 1: You talk a lot about slowing down and I’m hav...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 115 - Improving Your Relationship with Your Spouse, Being Afraid for Your Kids - Part 3 of the Ask Me Anything Series Today’s questions: Question 1: What does “Clean up your own side of the street” mean. You say this a lot and I’m not sure what you mean or how to do it.  Question 2:  If I were going to do one thing...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode #114 - Parenting Problems and Cleaning Up Your Own Side of the Street, Ask Me Anything Series Today’s podcast consists of questions sent in by listeners. I answer 2 parenting questions: Question #1 My son is 18 and has challenges with alcohol and nicotine. He is masking his challenges and feelings by checking out of...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 113 – Expectation Frustration and Processing Emotions In today’s podcast, I’ll be answering the following questions: 1.       I’m so disappointed in my wife. She is so disorganized and I feel like I’m picking up the slack when I get home from work. If she would be better about having the stuff like the laundry done,...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast 112: Boundaries – When, What, How? Boundaries are tricky. We are afraid to make them because we don’t want to risk the relationship, but we’re so angry, resentful, fearful, that we’re doing damage to the relationship by not setting them. Listen to this episode for the when, what, and how of boundaries to help you out.  Do y...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast 111 - Five Things to Focus on When Your Child Leaves your Faith When your child leaves the faith you raised them in, it is easy to get caught up in the emotions of fear, worry, sadness, or even anger. None of these emotions will be helpful for you to build and nurture your relationship with your child. Listen to this episod...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #110 Focus on Planting Relationship Seeds the Give You Good Fruit This is the 4th episode in the series for parents who have a child that has left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Every single day you are planting relationship seeds that you will some day harvest. You’re planting these relationship seeds wi...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 109 - Fear of Your Child Leaving Your Faith When you see your child leaving the church, feeling fear is normal, but not helpful. This is the third in a series of what happens for parents when their child leaves the church.  When you are afraid, you are not responding and acting with your higher thinking brain, you a...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #108 The Wholehearted Parenting Manifest by Brene Brown Are you as big of a Brene Brown fan as I am? When I found this manifesto on her website, I knew I needed to share it with my audience. As I begin this series into helping parents who have a child that has left the LDS church, please keep this manifesto in mind. As we w...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #107 - Differentiating Yourself from Your Adult Child When They Leave Your Faith This is the first in a series of episodes for parents who have adult children leaving the faith of their parents.   Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a well-respected therapist who focuses on creating healthy, mature relationships. Her insight on...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #106 Why It's Important to Work on Your Relationship with Yourself First You want your relationships to be different. If that other person would just be different, everything would be so much easier.  You don’t have any control over that other person, so this leaves you stuck.  When you work on yourself – how you are s...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #105 - A Good Question Leads to a Quality Answer Most of the questions you ask yourself are probably judgements of yourself or others. At the least, they are low-quality questions. We should have a required class in high school that teaches us to ask ourselves better questions, because the better your questions are, the mor...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 104 - How to Help Your Single Young Adult Child, an Interview with Julie Balkman Young adults are staying single longer than they did just a decade or two ago. Most people I coach have at least one child who they thought would be married by now. I’ve noticed most parents don’t know what to do to help their child mov...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #103 Stinkin Thinkin and Metacognition You have the ability to think about your own thinking. And you should! Because the way you are thinking affects your relationships with others, with yourself, and with the world around you. This summer I became a certified positivity practitioner with Dr. Paul Jenkins, and one of the t...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast #102 – Take Radical Responsibility for Your Relationships If you’re like most people, when you’re struggling in a relationship, you fall into either blaming another person for how they are making you feel, or you’re trying to get them to be different so you can feel better. Maybe you’re doing both! What if you didn’t have t...

Ask a question, send us a message, or let us know how you like the podcast Episode 101 - Finding Joy part 8 - Generosity Generosity is the 8th and final pillar of joy. It is a culmination of all the other pillars. When you can see with perspective, humility and humor, when you accept reality and not fight against it, when you can forgive yourself and others, be grateful for all you’ve been given,...