Empty Nesting: Transitioning Well
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
I think all parents approach the empty nesting years with mixed emotions, but don’t realize how much we are in control of how they go. What if the kids don’t want to come to holiday dinners? Why don’t they call me back? Where do I fit in now? Let’s talk about what that can look like when we transition well. We can thrive as empty nesters and become great friends with our kids!
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| 0:00.0 | If you've gotten to the end of your parenting years or if you're nearing the end or maybe you're a parent with young children and you're just wondering what it might be like to look ahead to the empty nest years I'm going to talk a little bit about it today. How do we |
| 0:14.3 | survive the empty nest and move forward with joy? If this is your season of life or |
| 0:18.8 | if you like to know more about how to handle the season when it approaches stick around I think you're |
| 0:24.2 | going to be encouraged. |
| 0:27.0 | Well hey everybody. I hope you guys are doing great today. Thanks for tuning into the |
| 0:38.3 | off-the-bench podcast. This is Heidi St. John. I'm glad that you guys have |
| 0:42.0 | taken just a little bit of your day and spend it with me. I appreciate that. I get asked all the time about parenting adult children, about walking through the season of really just grieving having your kids leave |
| 0:58.5 | your home and the change that happens as a result of that and so I thought this was a good time of year |
| 1:04.0 | to just take a moment because I think it's more painful |
| 1:07.4 | during the holidays, certainly, |
| 1:09.8 | than almost any other time of the year. |
| 1:12.3 | This empty nest syndrome. almost any other time of the year this this this |
| 1:13.4 | empty nest syndrome that we sort of feel this this longing |
| 1:18.0 | for what used to be and I've written about this on my blog in fact |
| 1:22.2 | I'll link back to some of those articles in the show |
| 1:24.6 | notes today. I wrote about the season of life that I went through nearly 12, 13 years ago now when I |
| 1:30.8 | realized that we had had our last daughter. Some of you have heard me talk about the |
| 1:35.1 | fact that I had to have a hysterectomy, which was something that I did not want, but it became |
| 1:40.0 | medically necessary. And I grieved the passage of time. |
| 1:47.6 | This idea that I wasn't gonna be young forever |
| 1:50.2 | that we wouldn't always be able to have children and it really hits you when you |
| 1:54.4 | when you either make the decision not to have more children or that decision is made |
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