Best Reconciling Estranged Relationships Podcasts (2025)

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Should You Reach Out During Serious Family Illness? 12:30

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1d ago12:30

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When serious illness strikes a family member, the heartache of estrangement becomes even heavier. Do you reach out to your child? What do you say—or not say—when emotions are raw and time feels short? In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, I walk you through how to navigate these tender moments with grace, clarity and God’s peace. You’ll lear…

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Estrangement Recovery: How To Respond To False Accusations 12:33

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I remember my child telling me that I had done something that I literally had no recollection of at all. Was I insane? Had I blocked it all out? Was he being dishonest? All those thoughts swirled through my mind, and it felt terrible. I wanted to defend myself. But I also didn’t want to shut down the communication altogether. In today’s episode of …

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Reclaiming Your Happiness During Estrangement 13:21

8d ago13:21

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When you’re estranged from your adult child, happiness can feel out of reach, as if everything good is on pause until reconciliation happens. But God has not pressed pause on your life. In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, I want to talk to you about reclaiming happiness during estrangement… About how to allow moments of happiness without g…

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49: How God Works for you in Estrangement 7:46

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Do you wonder how God works for you in estrangement or whether he is even aware or cares? You feel like you are in the crucible with pressures mounting, emotions melting and triggers exploding. And you wonder how God could allow something so painful to linger with this person that you love. Why is …

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Reconciliation Truth: The Labels Do Not Matter 12:01

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Hello, sister Mom. I want to share something that’s been stirring in my heart about estrangement and labels. I believe you need to hear today’s episode. . I saw a supposed estrangement expert talking about estrangement in a way that piles on labels, and creates more complication in the already complex challenge of estrangement. . And while labels c…

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Release Worldly Advice On Estrangement: Release Series Lesson 6 12:34

15d ago12:34

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When you’re estranged from your child, the pain can feel like a constant void in your heart. We’ve been in the Release series here on the podcast. Release is a free audio class I’ve been putting out on Tuesdays, and it has been about letting go of what’s blocking you from feeling better, and from increasing your odds of reconciling with your child.…

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How To Work On Reconciliation When Your Child Will Not Talk To You 16:45

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Estrangement can feel like such a lonely place… when there are no texts, no calls and no conversations, you miss your estranged child and your heart aches for reconciliation. If you have grandchildren that you don’t get to see, your heart mourns missing their milestones and special days. You want to reconcile, but you don’t know how to fix things i…

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Releasing Fear In Family Estrangement: Release Series Lesson 5 13:17

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If you’re walking through estrangement, you know how fear can slip in and take hold. It curls in your stomach, gives your chest a sick feeling and whispers terrifying what-ifs. Fear has a way of filling in the silence with stories that aren’t true. In this Tea Time Tuesday episode, we’re in Lesson 5 of the Release series… we’re leaning into what it…

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48: Move on in Estrangement 10:28

23d ago10:28

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Move on - how many times have you heard that phrase? Wouldn’t it be easy if we could just flip a switch and close the door on hurtful relationships? For so many, the estranged relationship involves a family member, and it isn’t so easy to just walk away and close the door. So, how do you move on? I…

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Emotional Healing With Autumn Colors 13:03

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Estrangement can make the world feel drained of color, as if everything has gone gray and monotone. But then autumn arrives… trees dressed in crimson and gold - and it’s as though God Himself is painting reminders across the sky that beauty still exists. In today’s episode of The Estranged Mom Coach, I want to tell you how these autumn hues are mor…

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Freedom From Estrangement Guilt: Release Series Lesson 4 14:45

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When I was estranged from my child, one of the absolute hardest parts of it was the intense guilt I felt. And until I was able to release the guilt, the attempts to reassume my role as a mother fell short. In today’s episode, we’re in Lesson 4 of the Release series. We’re talking about estrangement guilt. The kind that replays your past like a brok…

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Tell Hell You Are Getting Off The Floor 13:06

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Estrangement knocks you down. Way down. Maybe you’ve been on the floor for a while now. I’m talking about the kind of floor where your spirit lays still… bruised by estrangement, weighted by the ache of being cut off by your estranged son or daughter. You stare at the ceiling, wondering if you’ll ever have the strength to get up. . But here’s the t…

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Not Allowing Anger To Consume You During Estrangement: Release Series Lesson 3 14:19

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By Jenny Good | Christian Certified Family Estrangement Coach, Parental Estrangement Expert

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47: Impacts of Estrangement 12:43

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Have you ever considered the impacts of estrangement in your life? Sure, you feel disappointed, resentful, angry even. You miss the person with whom you are estranged. Feeling deeply wounded, you struggle to find your footing some days. Seeking to follow God, you try to forgive only to be reminded …

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Considering Reaching Out To Your Estranged Child? 6 Steps To Take BEFORE You Do It! 15:46

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Estranged mothers carry so much heartache. And if you’ve found yourself wearing the label of a mom whose child went no contact, you know that ache all too well. Perhaps you also know about the longing to reach out to your estranged child… and the gripping fear that you’ll get it wrong. If you’ve ever wondered when the “right time” is to contact you…

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Release The Pain Of Estrangement: Release Series Lesson 2 13:09

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Welcome to Lesson 2 of the Release Series. A free audio class series to help estranged mothers release what’s standing between them and feeling better and reconciling with their children. Trying to heal a relationship with your estranged child before you heal from the pain is like trying to fix a car while it’s barreling down the freeway at 100 mil…

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Your Child Went No Contact? 3 Misconceptions About Relationship Recovery. 13:23

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If you’ve ever laid awake wondering how you became an estranged mother… if you’ve typed and re-typed a message to your estranged child, only to hit delete… if your heart is weary from navigating conflicting advice about estrangement… let me talk to you. In today’s episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™ Podcast, I’m walking you through three common—and…

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Release The Urgency To Fix It Now: Release Series Lesson 1 13:24

2M ago13:24

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As you navigate estrangement from your adult child, you’re probably focusing on what you need to do differently. What things you need to learn, start doing and so forth - so that your estranged child will open the door to communication with you. But you might be overlooking a big part of the equation. What you need to release is just as important a…

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46: Surrender and Cooperation in Estrangement 9:05

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Surrender and cooperation are two words that helped me discover the peace I was seeking as I experienced estrangement in a relationship. Admittedly, these are not two words we readily think about. Surrender conjures up the thought of giving up control. Cooperation may not be as fearful depending on…

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Estrangement Recovery: The 5 Part Heart Posture Of The Medicine Matriarch 16:15

2M ago16:15

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Reaction mode. When you’re estranged, it seems like you’re constantly reacting to your estranged child’s choices… Like a spectator in your own life story, waiting on the other shoe to drop and hoping this nightmare of estrangement will end soon. If you vacillate between hope and hurt, and peace and panic, this episode is for you. We’re talking abou…

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Sending A Birthday Card To Your Estranged Child? Avoid These 3 Common Mistakes! 12:06

2M ago12:06

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Hey, friend. Come in and sit with me a while. If your estranged child’s birthday is coming up and you’re wondering… “Do I send a card or not?” - you are not alone. Like many other estranged mothers, you don’t want your child to think you’ve stopped caring, but you also don’t want to ignore their request for space. And really, how you handle seeming…

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10 Ways The spirit Of Offense Manipulates You (And What To Do About It) 13:57

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When you’re dealing with family estrangement from your child, offense can sneak in quietly. It feels like justified self-protection — like drawing a line to keep yourself from being hurt again. But offense isn’t a shield. It’s a trap. In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast, we’re getting into how the devil uses the spirit of offense to…

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45: Healing your Emotions 13:45

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Healing your emotions is critical when you are estranged. And its hard work that will take time and commitment. Take a moment to think about the emotions you’ve experienced in the last few days when you think about the person with whom you are estranged. Do you feel disappointed? Sadness? Anger? Re…

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Stuck In Estrangement Trauma? Break Free With These 4 Emotional Regulation Tips. 13:39

2M ago13:39

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When estrangement from your child happens, it doesn’t just hurt your heart… it rattles your whole nervous system. Estrangement from your child is a trauma, and too often, that part of the conversation often gets left out. You find yourself stuck in cycles of overthinking and physical symptoms… checking your phone with hope and dread in the same bre…

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5 Biblical Truths To Speak Over Yourself For Emotional Healing From Estrangement 11:40

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When you’re an estranged mother, the silence can echo louder than even their hurtful words. It’s tempting to harden your heart, to protect yourself by pulling away or adopting the world’s advice—that message that says: Let them go. Move on. Don’t look back. But as a Christian mother, you’re called to handle estrangement from your child differently.…

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4 Estrangement Reconciliation Actions The devil Wants You To Ignore 12:52

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Experiencing estrangement from your child can feel like living in an old movie reel. You replay things repeatedly, searching for the scene that explains why your estranged child turned away. Figuring out why feels like something you should be doing… after all, don’t good mothers try to figure it out and fix it? . In this episode of The Estranged Mo…

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That Is Not What Happened! False Memories In Family Estrangement 16:18

3M ago16:18

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As an estranged mother, you may know the heartbreak of hearing your child recount a memory that feels completely foreign to your own experience… sometimes even flat-out untrue. It can feel like they’re rewriting the story, and the sting of being misunderstood cuts deep. In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast, we’re exploring the emotio…

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44: Why You're Struggling with Forgiveness 11:27

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? If you’re struggling with forgiveness, you aren’t alone. The truth is most everyone does. Oh, you may give lip service like I did and say you forgive, but the emotions linger. The pain comes and goes. You replay the hurt over and over so much the record is warped and scratched. Yet you really want …

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Going To Spiritual Battle In Family Estrangement: Declare And Decree 18:14

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Estrangement isn’t just an emotional wound—it’s a spiritual battleground. The silence, the unanswered messages, the distance that keeps growing… it’s easy to feel powerless. The enemy wants you to believe you have no power in this estrangement from your child, but the enemy is a liar. In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, you’ll learn the di…

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The Often Misunderstood Family Estrangement Solution 16:25

3M ago16:25

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Forgiveness and radical love are the medicine that heals estrangement. Most people overlook it because it doesn’t roar. And it requires some stretching on your part. It holds steady when you want to lash out. It softens you when the world tells you to self-protect. And it opens the gates for reconciliation with your estranged child in ways that wor…

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Allowing Reconciliation To Feel Impossibly Slow 14:36

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Within estrangement, there’s a grief that sits with you in the silence… when your phone stays quiet, when holidays pass unacknowledged, when you feel like you’ve been punched in the gut in a deep, deep way. You wrestle with the ache of not knowing when… or if… the reconciliation will come. I know how much you want to fix this. To reach for them. To…

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43: Learning to be Vulnerable in Estrangement 12:25

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Learning to be vulnerable is daunting in the best of circumstances. But when you have estranged relationships, it can be downright paralyzing. Vulnerability is akin to giving someone access to your innermost thoughts and emotions. And for good reasons, it isn’t wise to give everyone that privilege.…

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Tending To The Heart Of An Estranged Mother: 3 Ways To Heal 13:58

3M ago13:58

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When your adult child chooses estrangement, it doesn’t just break your heart — it breaks something deep in your sense of identity. It’s a trauma laced with rejection, abandonment and the aching confusion of ambiguous loss. And yet, many mothers push their pain aside and try to hold everything together, focusing only on what their child thinks, feel…

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42: Blended Families and Estrangement 11:14

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Blended families and estrangement often go hand in hand. But are they more prone to estranged relationships? Research says not necessarily. However, they do face more unique challenges and that can morph into estrangement. Are you part of a blended family that is facing difficulties and even amid e…

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Estrangement Hurts: Let Me Speak To The Wounded Part Of You 11:34

3M ago11:34

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When your child went no contact, your first instinct was to fix it. To hold the relationship together, even as it shattered in your hands and ran through your fingers. But all the while, you were getting a message that your pain didn’t matter much. You learned to walk with an emotional limp and get the boxes checked off day to day… even though insi…

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Newly Estranged Mother: What To Focus On First 15:22

3M ago15:22

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Estranged mother. Your mind is still trying to grasp that this title has become something that describes you. How can that be happening? Maybe you’re only a few days, weeks or months into the estrangement, and everything in you wants to fix it. You want to reach out, to explain, to try and make it right. But if you're honest, your nervous system fe…

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When Estrangement Is Not New: Where To Start 14:28

3M ago14:28

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Welcome to The Estranged Mom Coach™ podcast. In today’s conversation, I want to speak straight to the estranged mother who’s been dealing with no contact with her adult child for a while now. The one who has walked this estrangement road long enough to feel the wear in her bones, and in her soul. We’re going to talk about what to do in the invisibl…

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Estrangement Coaching: 5 Signs You Are Ready To Be Coached 14:29

3M ago14:29

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Since becoming estranged from your adult child, you’ve wondered how to repair the relationship. You’ve spent so much time going over what could have gone wrong, and how to fix it. You’ve tried all the things to get your child to talk to you. … The carefully worded messages. … The tearful apologies. … The waiting. The reading. The researching. . And…

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If You Want To Reconcile Avoid These 2 Reach Outs 15:42

4M ago15:42

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As an estranged mother, you’ve probably wondered more times than you can count: Should I reach out to my estranged child? And if so... how? Especially if they blocked you. How can you get a message to them? Maybe you just want to know they’re okay. . Maybe you thought about going through someone else… your child’s in-law, or a friend of theirs —hop…

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Being Estranged Too Long To Reconcile Is Not A Thing 11:53

4M ago11:53

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If you’ve been estranged from your child for some time, maybe you’ve heard that whisper in your mind: “It’s been too long. Too much time has passed. Maybe reconciliation just isn’t possible anymore.” I want to burn that lie down today. . Because being estranged “too long” to reconcile? That’s not a thing. It’s just one more tactic the enemy uses to…

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Many Estranged Mothers Are Also HSPs: You Need To Know About This 12:49

4M ago12:49

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In this episode of The Estranged Mom Coach™, I want to talk to the estranged mothers who are deep feelers. The ones who wear their heart on their sleeve, who feel things so deeply it sometimes aches, who love fiercely and sometimes feel like they’re a little too much. . If what I just said describes you, you might be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)…

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41: Limiting Core Beliefs and Estrangement 10:55

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Limiting core beliefs affects your mindset and your overall health. And these core beliefs in estrangement can keep you stuck and unable to get into a healthy place. Think in terms of whether I can’t, I will never, or I should. When you are in an estranged relationship it’s easy to let your mind go…

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Biblical Emotional Healing For The Chronically Disappointed Estranged Mother 13:07

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Dear estranged mother… have you been carrying the weight of disappointment when your estranged child does things you would never do to your mom? Maybe you’ve caught yourself thinking, “If they loved me, they’d never do this - or they’d have done such and such if they cared.” . You have an idea of what they should be doing, and every time they don’t…

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8 Priorities That Do Not Revolve Around Your Estranged Child 15:23

4M ago15:23

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You think about your estranged adult child often. You’ve cried, prayed, questioned yourself and wondered if they will ever come back. It can feel like being an estranged mother consumes your identity. But what if, even for a little while, we shift the focus? What if God is gently calling you to remember the parts of your life that aren’t about the …

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40: Who You Are Becoming is More Important than What You Do 11:08

4M ago11:08

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? Who you are becoming is vital in discovering peace in estranged relationships. And estrangement can lock you in a mental prison so that at times you don’t even know who you are anymore. Triggers create a response that you later regret and you are mired in guilt. At times it feels as though you take…

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You Are Doing the Reconciliation Work But It Feels One Sided 13:32

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You’ve read the family estrangement books, listened to the estrangement podcasts and taken a hard look in the mirror - You know that reconciliation will require some deep inner work on your part. . And you’re willing. You want to heal. You want to feel better, love better… be better. You long for your estranged child to be back in your life. . But …

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39: Top 3 Causes of Estrangement 11:28

4M ago11:28

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Send me a text…what topics would you like to hear? The top 3 causes of estrangement based on research studies help you understand not only why it happens but the impact on relationships. Estrangement is something that many just don’t talk about. You may perceive it as a stigma as many do. The concept of family evokes illusions of happy times, gathe…

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Do Not Fall For The "Let Them" Trend 13:25

4M ago13:25

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In the family estrangement space, you’ve probably heard it: “Just let them.” Let them walk away. Let them misjudge you. Let them stay gone. . And maybe for a minute, it gave you a sense of relief. A little space to breathe. But if you’re honest? That ache for your child didn’t go anywhere. . This episode isn’t a takedown of boundaries or a commenta…

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Spiritual Warfare: 6 Prayers You Need To Know About 16:18

4M ago16:18

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The world that wants to offer surface-level solutions to the family estrangement from your child, but you need God in the center of your answer. . You know estrangement is more than meets the eye. You know you need to be engaging in Spiritual warfare, and you do pray about the estrangement. Though sometimes you wonder “how” to pray for this situati…

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How To Be An Impossible Target To A Toxic Daughter-In-Law 15:10

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There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that comes when you find yourself estranged from your son… not because of something you said, not because of some unforgivable moment, but because a toxic daughter-in-law has strategically driven a wedge between you. You worry that you’ll never get your estranged son back in your life as long as your daughter…