The Estranged Mom Coach™ | Estrangement, Prodigals, Estranged Parent, Biblical Emotional Healing

Hey, friend. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. As Mother’s Day approaches, you might be feeling a sense of sadness or dread. How can you possibly enjoy that day when your son or daughter is estranged from you? Maybe you don’t even know how you’ll get through the day, let alone enjoy it. In this Tea Time Tuesday episode, I’ll tell you 3 ways to navigate being estranged on Mother’s Day wi...

Hey, friend. Are you a member of one or more Facebook support groups for estranged parents? If so, you probably joined those groups looking for ways to connect with other estranged mothers, and maybe to receive some support and guidance, too. In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, I’m going to explain why that estranged parent support group is actually keeping you estranged. Grab your throw...

The apology letter, also known as the amends letter… did you write one, or maybe several, and it didn’t end the estrangement from your child? If you wrote an apology letter that did nothing to bring reconciliation to your estranged relationship with your child, this episode is for you. Welcome to Tea Time Tuesday at the The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In this episode, I’ll lay out 7 reasons your...

Estrangement makes you notice things you may not have paid attention to before. Like the young woman you pass on the sidewalk, talking to a lady who appears to be her mother. They look happy in each other’s company. You read the Facebook post in the estrangement support group about the mother who reconciled with her formerly estranged son, and you notice the emotion coming through the words on the...

Many of us deal with estrangement by turning to social media for information, help and support. Instagram Reels, Tik Tok videos and Facebook groups provide hours of content and lots of opinions where family estrangement is concerned. Social media can be helpful, but it can also wreck your chances of reconciling with your estranged daughter or son. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In th...

As estranged mothers, we can get in a hurry to fix things and get our children back in our lives. It’s easy to want to put the cart before the horse without even realizing that’s what’s happening because you want to reconcile with your estranged child as soon as possible. But if you do not have solid emotional regulation, you won’t be able to do the things that are required to fix the relationship...

When you’re going through estrangement from your child, it can be more of a marathon than a sprint. Sometimes it takes a while before you find the right support to help you repair the relationship. Or maybe you reconcile, but things seem up and down with your child for a while. It can all make you feel weary and it can cause you to doubt whether things will ever work out with your estranged child...

Hey, friend. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In today’s Thursday Thoughts episode, I want to talk to you about Spring cleaning specifically for estranged mothers. I’ll tell you 5 areas to do some Spring cleaning to help you draw closer to God, heal your emotions and build a bridge back to your estranged adult child. Grab a notebook because you’ll probably want to write some things dow...

Have you been thinking about seeing a therapist to help with the estrangement from your adult child? Maybe you already are in therapy to try to reconcile with your child. Before you follow the therapist’s guidance, I hope you’ll listen to this episode. Hi, friend. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In today’s Tea Time Tuesday episode, I’ll tell you about 3 pieces of estrangement therapy...

The estrangement from your adult child hurt you deeper than you may have thought possible. It brought feelings of sadness, anger, confusion and maybe even shame. So much of the work of repairing the relationship centers on your estranged child, and how they feel. You wonder when you get to share your feelings about the estrangement, with your adult child. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcas...

Maybe you’ve been listening to this estrangement podcast for a while, or perhaps this is your first time here. And you want to believe that what I’m telling you is true but perhaps there’s a voice of doubt that reconciliation only happens for “other people”. If you aren’t 100% convinced you believe me yet, meet me inside the episode. I want to talk to you.  . Next Steps: 1) Apply for your FREE con...

When I work with estranged mothers, one of the things they struggle with most is handling their estranged adult child’s accusations, if they know it didn’t happen that way. On one hand, you want to keep the communication open, even if they are accusing you falsely. On the other hand, you don’t want to agree with a lie. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In this Thursday Thoughts episode,...

Have you spent lots of time reading online, engaging with Facebook groups and listening to podcasts and audiobooks, only to still feel stuck about how to end the estrangement from your child? Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. I’m Jenny Good, and in this Tea Time Tuesday episode, I’ll tell you the simple solution for all parental estrangements, and I’ll give you ways to start putting the...

Hello, friend. When your estranged adult child ignores your attempts to reach out to them, it feels like a deep rejection… and that hurts. When they say cutting words or tell you that you need to call ahead of time to ask if you can come over, it can feel like you’re being pushed away. And that hurts, too. How do you deal with the pain while still trying to work things out so that you can see your...

So, it’s almost your estranged daughter or son’s birthday, and you’re wondering if you should send a birthday card. Would it only make things worse, and if you do send it, what should you say in the card? Hey, friend. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In this Tea Time Tuesday episode, I’ll answer these questions and I’ll tell you what to do instead, if you determine that it’s not the ri...

In the course of working with estranged mothers, there’s something I hear that’s especially cruel. And believe it or not, it’s self-inflicted from the moms themselves. You’ve had more than enough pain already, without adding to it by doing the devil’s dirty work against yourself. Sometimes, we don’t even realize we’re coming into agreement with the enemy’s agenda against us. Welcome to The Estrang...

When you’re estranged from your son or daughter, and praying for reconciliation, it can feel like you’re defeated if you see no forward movement. Maybe you’ve been praying for what seems like a long time, and still your estranged adult child has not responded to your efforts to mend the relationship. The devil would love for you to give up, but delay does not mean denial. Welcome to The Estranged...

Maybe you’re considering reaching out to your estranged daughter or son. You miss them, and you want to see if they might be open to talking. You figure, maybe if you could find the right words, they would consider fixing whatever went wrong between you. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast… Before you compose the text, write the letter or make the phone call, listen to this episode. I’m go...

Hey, friend! Thanks for coming by. Do you ever get through the day, managing to stay busy and avoid thinking a lot about the estrangement, only to have it all come crashing in at the end of the day? Maybe you have trouble falling asleep, or you get woken up by anxiety and sad thoughts about your estranged child.  . It’s a lot easier to outrun those hard feelings in the daytime when there are thing...

I believe every family estrangement from an adult child involves a spiritual component. Knowing which weapons of Spiritual warfare to use and how to use them are essential for you if you are an estranged mother. In today’s episode of The Estraged Mom Coach™, I’ll tell you the 4 Spiritual warfare actions King Jehoshaphat took that made him victorious in the battle. These 4 Spiritual warfare actions...

Estranged mothers often harbor a specific fear that causes them to show up poorly. One of my mom’s greatest fears was being abandoned and left alone. She thought if she was needed, she wouldn’t have to worry about that happening to her. So she worked hard to be needed, from a place of fear. And sometimes it created a lot of pain and turmoil between us.  . Looking back, I see how this fear of aband...

In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, I want to talk to you about what “I love you” really means, particularly as it applies to being an estranged mother. You can apply every bit of this to your relationship with your adult child, even if you’re not talking at all right now. I’m going to outline 10 qualities of love as put forth in 1 Corinthians Chapter 13. These qualities of love are Bibli...

One of the most common questions of estranged mothers is “Why did my child go no contact from me?”. You might have asked yourself that question many times, only to draw a blank and be left wondering what caused the estrangement to happen. There is a family estrangement epidemic happening at the time of this podcast episode. One in Four families in the United States are estimated to have a family e...

You think you had a close relationship with your son. Things seemed to be going well… until he met his current girlfriend or wife. And now you are estranged from your son. Your daughter in law says you’re toxic and no matter what you do, you feel like she wants to keep your son away from you, and perhaps your grandchild as well. If that sounds familiar, today’s episode is for you. . Welcome to The...

I’m not sure what happened to cause the estrangement, because my child and I had a great relationship. We were always so close and then they just changed. Things fell apart all of a sudden… If that sounds like your story, this episode is especially for you. Hey, friend. Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In today’s Tea Time Tuesday episode, I’m going to explain how a statement you might...