Parallel Parenting Part One [311]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we’re diving into the topic of parallel parenting—what it means, why it matters, and how it can empower you as a mother to create a home filled with love and stability, even when co-parenting feels like a battlefield.
We explore how to rise above emotional manipulation, operate from a place of peace and truth, and model resilience for your children. Whether you’re navigating parallel parenting or seeking emotional clarity, this episode is full of practical wisdom and hope.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free |
| 0:10.0 | Podcast, a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome to episode 311 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | I have Diana with me here again today, which Diana, you heard a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:35.2 | Actually, yeah, I think it was maybe a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:35.9 | She came on. And we had so much fun that I said, |
| 0:38.9 | do you want to come on again? And let's talk about. So Diana and I, I think we could say that we are in |
| 0:44.6 | real life friends now, don't you think? We are. Definitely. We are in real life friends. And we actually |
| 0:51.2 | Marco Polo back and forth when we're in the mood to just, you know, gab about |
| 0:56.1 | different things. And we were gabbing one day about parallel parenting and just what that's like. |
| 1:04.0 | And I said, do you want to do a podcast about this? And she said, yeah, let's do it. So I put in the |
| 1:09.3 | forum, our private forum for flying free. |
| 1:12.1 | And if you're interested in flying free or flying higher, you can go to join flying free for more info or join flying higher for more info. |
| 1:18.6 | But we have this private forum and sometimes I'll pose questions. Usually members are posing questions for us. |
| 1:26.2 | Diana is a coach inside of flying free as well. So, |
| 1:30.4 | but this time we posed a question for them and we just said, hey, what are some of your challenges |
| 1:34.9 | with parallel parenting? Those of you who are either separated from your husband or even, |
| 1:40.0 | you might even still be married to your husband, but you have very different approaches to parenting. |
| 1:44.7 | And then some of you are divorced. So give us all your questions about that. And we're going to do a |
| 1:48.9 | podcast about it. Well, we got tons and tons of questions. And that is what this episode is going to be |
| 1:54.4 | about. And I think it's going to be so long that we might end up dividing it into two. So if this |
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