Momentum Podcast with Erica Wiggenhorn

Send Erica a text You're not fighting. That might be the problem. You share a house, a calendar, and a bed, and somehow you've become roommates running a household instead of two people who actually see each other. The parenting stress did this. The late nights, the disagreements over what to do about your kid, the exhaustion that leaves nothing left for anyone else. But Erica has good n...

Send Erica a text You disagree about consequences. You disagree about money. You disagree about how much help is too much. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, you stopped feeling like teammates and started feeling like roommates who happen to share a kid. Maybe you're carrying it alone. Maybe you feel criticized. Too soft, too harsh, never quite right. And you're doing all of this...

Send Erica a text You wrote the check again. You said yes again. And the whole time you were doing it, you knew. This isn't help anymore. This is the same crisis on a different Tuesday. You want to stop. You just don't know how to stop without it feeling like you've stopped loving them. Erica walks you through the exact framework she uses to help an adult child without enabling them...

Send Erica a text They need gas money. They need rent money. They need you to fix the thing they broke because of the choice you told them not to make. And if you say no, you're the worst mom alive. If you say yes, nothing changes. You've been on this ride before. You know how it ends. Erica gets painfully honest about the day she kicked her son out of the house and what she got wrong in...

Send Erica a text You've thought about sending the text a hundred times. You've typed it, deleted it, typed it again. You're terrified of silence. But you're also terrified of saying the wrong thing and losing whatever thread of connection might still be there. So you do nothing. And the distance just keeps growing. Erica walks through three practical steps for standing in fait...

Send Erica a text 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...

Send Erica a text If you let them go to the mall, they might get kidnapped. If you let them drive to a friend's house, they might wrap the car around a tree. You can get to worst-case scenario in under three seconds, and your kid knows it. That's why they think every conversation about freedom is pointless before it starts. Erica walks through what happened when she realized her fear was...

Send Erica a text 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 j...

Send Erica a text 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&a...

Send Erica a text If every conversation with your teen ends in a slammed door or dead silence, you've probably told yourself the same thing: Tomorrow will be better. And then tomorrow isn't. You weren't trying to start a fight. You asked a simple question. And somehow you're standing in the hallway wondering how you became the person you swore you wouldn't be. Erica names...