How to Cope When Big Kids Leave Home

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

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Are you going through a time of hard change? Whether your son is still small and starting kindergarten or your daughter is leaving home to go to college, motherhood is a series of opportunities to give thanks and let go. I’m sharing some coping strategies to get us through!

Takeaways

* Allow yourself to feel the emotions associated with your children leaving home, but avoid getting stuck in negativity.

* Be gentle with yourself and create margins in your daily life to process emotions and adjust to the change.

* Give yourself grace and acknowledge the need for rest and relaxation during this time.

* Embrace new opportunities and start something new that brings joy and purpose to your life.

* Practice gratitude and give thanks for the blessings and experiences of motherhood.

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0:00.0	Are you a Catholic woman in business? Do you long to be, but you aren't sure how to balance work
0:04.6	in your faith and family life? Over at Catholic Women in Business.com, they have a membership
0:09.3	community that includes monthly mastermind meetings facilitated by a Catholic woman business leader,
0:14.8	a private slack workspace, and access to motivation code group coaching from a Catholic coach.
0:20.6	Also, coming in November from Ave Maria Press is the first book by Catholic Women in
0:25.2	Business Presidents, Taryn DeLong, and Elise Crawford Gallagher.
0:29.0	They've written this together.
0:29.9	It's called Holy Ambition, Thriving as a Catholic woman at work and at home, and it's
0:34.7	available for pre-order now.
0:36.4	Go check out all of the amazing resources
0:38.6	and opportunities that are available for you at Catholic Women in Business.com. Girlfriends,
0:45.0	episode number 437, How to Cope When Big Kids Leave Home.
0:58.4	Hello and welcome to girlfriends.
0:59.7	I'm Danielle Bean.
1:02.8	I'm a wife and a mom, and I'm on a mission to help you.
1:06.7	Know your worth is a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy, and family living.
1:11.7	This week we are talking about those hard times of change, how to cope when big kids leave home,
1:14.9	but really how to get through any hard time of change.
1:16.2	This applies to all of us.
1:18.9	Can't wait to have this important heartfelt conversation.
1:19.6	Let's get started.
1:46.2	Hey, girlfriend, how are you? I promised you we were going to take on this topic. And now here I am to do it on the other side of leaving our seventh child. My fourth son, Raffley, left him down in Florida. He's going to be starting school there. And all of you were very much in my heart and on my mind as I was going through this experience yet again with a child who's leaving home
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