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Coaching Your Family Relationships
Is your relationship with your adult child strained, distant, or heading toward estrangement?
Do you replay conversations, walk on eggshells, or wonder what you did wrong?
Are you dealing with family conflict, difficult adult children, or toxic in-laws — and feeling powerless to fix it?
You’re not alone.
I’m Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach and Family Life Educator. I help parents move from anxiety, overfunctioning, and emotional reactivity to calm, confident connection — even when their adult child won’t change.
Grounded in Bowen Family Systems theory and nervous system science, this podcast will help you:
1. Understand why stress spreads through a family system
2. Recognize patterns like overfunctioning, fixing, triangles, and emotional cutoff
3. Stop walking on eggshells
4. Navigate adult child conflict without losing yourself
5. Repair strained relationships with your adult child in a healthy way
At the heart of this work is the Differentiated Connection Map — balancing two core needs in every family:
• Closeness and belonging
• Individuality and autonomy
Through my HEAL framework, you’ll learn how to:
Hold onto yourself
Engage with calm clarity
Allow space for difference
Lead with grounded love
You cannot control your adult child.
But you can change your position in the system.
And when one parent becomes steadier, the entire family shifts.
If you’re searching for how to repair your relationship with your adult child and reduce family conflict without losing yourself — you’re in the right place.
Coaching Your Family Relationships
Five Things to Focus on When Your Child Leaves your Faith
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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 episode to know where to put your focus instead.
Listen to the podcast: Processing Emotions
Upcoming Breathing Workshop:
If you are very reactive to the situations and people in your world, if you’re feeling a lot of stress, overwhelm, anxiety, fear, then this workshop will be very helpful for you.
We’ll be working on how to have more control over your emotional responses to life, how to establish a breathing routine every day in just 10 minutes, how to manage stress and anxiety.
One of the reasons we think the way that we do is because we aren’t managing our emotional responses to our lives, and then our brain is going crazy with those thought tornados, which then leads us to feel more stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and then that affects our thoughts, and the cycle continues.
A few minutes of breathing every day can really help.
There are very few body functions we can directly control in order to change how we are feeling. Changing the way we are breathing is one of those. It’s huge. Don’t miss out on this workshop!
The Five Things to Focus on When Your Child Leaves the LDS Church:
5. Be a safe place
4. Move in closer
3. Stay at the tree
2. Focus on the good fruit
1. Deal with yourself first
Tina Gosney is the Family Conflict Coach. She works with parents who have families in conflict to help them become the grounded, confident leaders their family needs.
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Tina is certified in family relationships and a trauma informed coach.
Visit tinagosney.com for more information on coaching services.