Strengthening the Relationship with Your Adult Child :: Kathy Cunningham [Ep 543]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kathy Cunningham, a Christian counselor, ordained minister, coach, and inner healing ministry leader shares her deeply personal journey of healing, transformation, and restored connection with her adult children. Kathy went through a journey with both of her kids and started to see more and more parent child estrangement in her counseling practice. This led her to start a ministry that helps parents grow and be a cheerleader instead of controlling their adult kids. Here is some of what we cover:
- Why your own healing journey is key to restoring connection
- Setting healthy boundaries in your home while honoring your child’s independence
- What to do when your child has cut off contact
- Radical acceptance: creating space for disagreement without division
- Moms whose identity has been wrapped up in parenting find themselves feeling lost and unsure of who they are once their kids leave home- what to do next
- Website: Grace For The Journey
- Facebook: A Seed of Hope
- Instagram: Katherine L Cunningham (@kathycunningham717)
- Doing Life with Your Adult Children: By Jim Burns
- Parents of Addicted Loved Ones | Support Group for Parents, Spouses, Family of Addicted Loved One
- FREE resources for parents to reconnect with adult children
- Grace Restored Membership
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm your host, Heather McFadion, and this is the place where I want to walk alongside you |
| 0:15.0 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:20.5 | And in this episode number 543, I'm welcoming |
| 0:24.4 | to the show, Kathy Cunningham. We try to control it all, right? Especially as moms. Well, the basis of |
| 0:31.8 | control often is fear. And I think fear is the biggest driver. And I get that. I've been there. We're afraid |
| 0:39.9 | they're going to fail. We're afraid they're going to get hurt. We're afraid they're going to make |
| 0:43.4 | bad decisions. And the reality is, many of those things can happen. But we really cannot control |
| 0:50.5 | it as much as we think we can. And the more we try, the more we actually push them away |
| 0:56.3 | and often push them a little bit into those situations. So when we can pull back and we can do |
| 1:03.3 | more listening and hearing and this is the biggest thing that we want to create, we want to create |
| 1:09.2 | safety. |
| 1:16.3 | Kathy is a Christian counselor, ordained minister, coach, an inner healing ministry leader. |
| 1:21.0 | And not only is she going to guide us today, she's going to share personally her journey of healing, transformation, and restored connection with her adult children. |
| 1:25.9 | We're going to talk about what do you do when your children |
| 1:28.4 | are walking through addiction in their teen and young adult years. What about the ever-growing |
| 1:33.8 | situation of parent and child estrangement that so many are walking through that she sees |
| 1:39.5 | in her counseling practice? And why our own healing journey is the key to restoring connection. |
| 1:47.4 | If you are looking for help with your adult children, I'm just thrilled that I get to connect |
| 1:52.2 | you with Kathy. |
| 1:53.9 | She's such a kind voice in this area. |
| 1:56.4 | She has a lot of free resources on her website. |
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