Learning to Calm the Storm Inside

In this episode, Heather sits down with coach Brooke Oniki to explore the ins and outs of parenting adult children. Brooke shares her expertise in helping women navigate the transition from having children at home to building meaningful relationships with adult children. Together, they discuss the importance of shifting one’s mindset from trying to control outcomes to supporting and loving children unconditionally, regardless of their life choices. Brooke emphasizes the power of embracing the journey, letting go of expectations, and finding peace amidst uncertainty. They explore how seeing the goodness in your children and walking the road with them can lead to deeper, more fulfilling connections.  

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Honoring Our Adult Children’s Choices

Young parents get a lot of empathy and understanding from others when they are in the thick of the often physically demanding job of being a parent to small energetic children. Parents of teenagers also get empathy for what can often be a taxing emotional season of parentings, but an often overlooked group of parents are those whose children have left the home and how these parents are learning to adjust their parenting style of being full-time caregivers to more of a mentor role that sometimes their children appreciate and sometimes they don’t.

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Operating From Abundance with Your Adult Children

We all have dreams and expectations of the relationships we will have with our children when they become adults. But far too often, they don’t follow the script we have for those dreams and we find ourselves feeling like the relationships we have with them are out of control and lacking in so many ways. Coach Brooke Oniki is on the podcast today to share how the relationships we have with our adult children can be abundant, full, and better than we ever dreamed in the first place. We just have to relax and be patient. We have to have faith in the relationship we built with them when they lived with us.

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Horizontal Relationships

Every invested parent hopes to have a lasting relationship with their children once they grow and leave the house but transitioning from having your children at home to adult children can often be difficult. Coach Brooke Oniki is a proponent of making sure the relationship between parent and child is a horizontal one. When a horizontal relationship is achieved parents become more trusted and they can exist as a collaborator in their adult children’s lives. There is a lot covered on today's episode and Brooke discusses so much about the importance of horizontal relationships and how they will benefit your life in so many ways. 

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