Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 23 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today Rachel and I are going to

answer a question. It's going to take the whole session to answer this question

because it's a big one. In fact, we could probably do two

podcasts on this one, but we'll see if we can get it all done in one. So the

question, we're going to play the question and then Rachel and I are going to

dig in. Here we go.

Hi, I just wanted to see if you could do a podcast on parenting and or co-parenting

dealing after separation from an abusive person and any advice on how to help the children

through this process, and especially when they might have a loted amount of time to go with dad and

Just his houses run very differently than mine and maybe if you had I don't know if you

had children or not but how you went through that and how you encourage your kids

through this process, especially when there's times when, you know,

overnights whenever they're not with you and you're not sure what's going on, but yet you see how hard it is on them.

And yeah, any advice or resources would be great.

Thank you.

Rachel, do you want to, do you have any initial thoughts?

Well, I think the biggest thing here is just the overall attitude I think as we tackle this challenge of trying to be

there in the way that our kids need us is just having empathy with them.

Being in this journey with them,

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