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Coaching Your Family Relationships: Help for Parents of Adult Children
Coaching Your Family Relationships: Help for Parents of Adult Children is a podcast for parents who want a healthier, more connected relationship with their adult children, especially when that relationship has become strained, distant, or difficult.
Hosted by Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach and Parent Educator, the podcast takes a whole-family approach to parent-adult child relationships. Rather than focusing only on what your adult child is doing, Tina helps you understand the larger relationship system: the patterns, emotional reactions, expectations, communication habits, nervous system responses, and family dynamics that influence how everyone shows up.
Each episode brings family science out of the textbook and into real life, helping parents understand not only what is happening in their relationships, but why it is happening and what they can do differently.
Whether your adult child has become distant, set boundaries you don’t understand, stopped communicating, or your relationship simply isn’t what you hoped it would be, this podcast will help you look at the entire relationship differently.
Because changing a family relationship doesn’t always require everyone to change. Sometimes, changing the way you participate in the relationship can change the entire system.
Episodes
226 episodes
My Adult Child Says I Trigger Them: What Should I Do?
Episode 229: My Adult Child Says I Trigger Them: What Should I Do?What does it mean when your adult child says, “You’re triggering me”?For many parents, hearing this word can feel confusing, painful, and disorienting. You m...
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My Adult Child Says I Traumatized Them: What Should I Do?
Episode 228: My Adult Child Says I Traumatized Them: What Should I Do?When your adult child says you traumatized them, it can feel like a judgment on your entire history as a parent. You may feel confused, defensive, ashamed, angr...
My Adult Child Says I'm Gaslighting Them. What Do I Do?
Episode 227: My Adult Child Says I'm Gaslighting Them. What Do I Do?When your adult child says you are gaslighting them, it can feel like an accusation against your entire character as a parent.You may immediately want to d...
My Adult Child Said I was Toxic. What Do I Do With That?
Episode 226: My Adult Child Said I was Toxic. What Do I Do With That?Hearing your adult child describe you, your parenting, or your family as “toxic” can feel like a complete rejection of who you are. You may immediately want to d...
What Does It Mean When Your Adult Child Says You Don’t Respect Their Boundaries?
Episode 225: What Does It Mean When Your Adult Child Says You Don’t Respect Their Boundaries?Has your adult child ever told you that you crossed a boundary or that you do not respect their boundaries and left you feeling confused, hurt, ...
Why Adult Children Go No Contact: Understanding Family Estrangement, with Dr. Rin Reczek
Episode 224 - Why Adult Children Go No Contact: Understanding Family Estrangement, with Dr. Rin ReczekAre you wondering why your adult child went no contact, pulled away, or says they need space from the family? This episode will ...
When Someone You Love Hurts You: How to Regain Emotional Stability
Episode 223: When Someone You Love Hurts You: How to Regain Emotional StabilityHave you ever been doing something completely ordinary—loading the dishwasher, making dinner, driving home—and then one text, one comment, one moment o...
When Love Feels Like Pressure: The Hidden Conflict in Helping Too Much
Episode 222: When Love Feels Like Pressure: The Hidden Conflict in Helping Too Much What if the very thing you are doing to keep the relationship close is the thing creating more distance?As parents, we often hel...
Hidden Conflict: Why Your Family Feels Tense Even When No One Is Fighting
Episode 221 - Hidden Conflict: Why Your Family Feels Tense Even When No One is FightingWhat if your family relationship feels tense, distant, or uncomfortable, but you can’t point to one big argument or obvious conflict?
Grandfatherhood and Legacy: How to Be Involved Without Interfering
Episode 220: Grandfatherhood and Legacy: How to Be Involved Without InterferingWhat kind of presence do you bring into your family?When you walk into a room, do people relax, or do they brace? Do your adult children ...
Fatherhood After Your Kids Grow Up: Who Are You to Them Now?
Episode 219: Fatherhood After Your Kids Grow Up: Who Are You to Them Now?What happens to fatherhood after your children grow up?When your adult child has a hard day, who do they call? Do they call you, or do they tur...
How to Focus on What You Can Control When Family Relationships Are Hard
Episode 218: How to Focus on What You Can Control When Family Relationships Are HardWhen a relationship is strained, it’s so tempting to think: If I say it the right way… if I do enough… if I stay kind enough… then they’ll fin...
Lazy or Stuck? Why Your Adult Child Avoids Life and How to Respond
Episode 127 - Lazy or Stuck? Why Your Adult Child Avoids Life and How to RespondIf you’re staring at a “failure to launch” situation and thinking, “Are they lazy… or are they stuck?” — you’re not alone. When an adult chil...
Boundaries with Your Adult Child: Stepping Back When You're Used to Being Needed
Episode 216 - Boundaries with Your Adult Child: Stepping Back When You're Used to Being NeededIf you're a parent of an adult child and you're still worrying, managing, advising, and rescuing — this episode is for you. Today we're diving ...
When Mother's Day Isn't Happy: Naming the Grief No One Sees
When Mother’s Day Isn’t Happy: Naming the Grief No One SeesMother’s Day is everywhere. Flowers at the grocery store, brunch photos, smiling cards, and you are doing your best to hold it together while something inside you feels he...
When Your Adult Child Chooses Their Spouse Over You: How to Stay Grounded
Episode 214: When Your Adult Child Chooses Their Spouse Over You: How to Stay GroundedPart 5 in the Series: How To Deal with Your Adult Child's Difficult SpouseWhat if the goal was never to fix your family… but to become st...
You Can't Fix Your Adult Child's Marriage: When You Feel Powerless, part 4
Episode 213 - You Can't Fix Your Adult Child's Marriage: When You Feel Powerless, part 4 of the series about your adult child's difficult spouse.If you’ve tried everything—rewriting texts, walking on eggshells, apologizing for things you...
When Your Adult Child's Spouse is Controlling, Critical, or Cold — This Is What's Actually Happening
Episode 212: When Your Adult Child's Spouse is Controlling, Critical, or Cold - This is What's Actually HappeningAnxiety doesn't always look like worry and stress. In families, it will often look like controlling, critical, or col...
When Your Adult Child’s Spouse Misunderstands You: Stop Defending Yourself and Stay Calm (Part 3)
When Your Adult Child’s Spouse Misunderstands You: Stop Defending Yourself and Stay Calm (Part 3)You read the message… and your chest tightens.“That’s not what I meant.”You start typing. Explaining. Replaying the mom...
Stop Blaming Yourself: When Your Adult Child’s Spouse is Anxious or Difficult, part 2
Episode 210 - Stop Blaming Yourself: When Your Adult Child’s Spouse is Anxious or Difficult, part 2 Have you ever left a visit with your adult child and their spouse thinking, “Nothing big happened… so why do I feel awful?”...
How to Deal with Your Adult Child’s Difficult Spouse, part 1
Episode 209 - How to Deal with Your Adult Child's Difficult Spouse, part 1When your adult child marries someone who brings a lot of anxiety into the family system, everything can start to feel… tense. Gatherings feel loaded. Conve...
When “Good Behavior” Comes at a Cost: How Behavior-Focused Parenting Disconnects Families
Episode 208: When “Good Behavior” Comes at a Cost: How Behavior-Focused Parenting Disconnects FamiliesAre you wondering why your adult child won’t talk to you—even though they always seemed like the “easy one” growing up?...
Family Reactivity and Anxiety: Why Your Relationship Feels Stuck
Episode 207 - Family Reactivity and Anxiety: Why Your Relationship Feels Stuck Do you feel stuck in painful cycles of family conflict and emotional reactions? Maybe you feel like you are walking on eggshells around...