The Almost Empty Nest—For Moms of Teens Redefining What “Letting Go” Really Means—with Small Jar Coach
Helping moms of teens and college kids set boundaries, release anxiety, and build connection—with your big kid and yourself—so you can feel calm, confident and fulfilled in this season of motherhood.
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Mindset Trap #9 - Emotional Reasoning | Ep. 74
Emotional reasoning is when we use our feelings as evidence that there’s a problem. I actually think this mindset trap is one of the most insidious thought errors we can fall into. Unlike some of the others that I’ve...
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Mindset Trap #8 - Identity Crisis | Ep. 73
Becoming a mother has been the most important role that I’ve ever taken on. The importance and worthiness of caring for these humans being has eclipsed every other priority of my life. Being a mother has become my...
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Conversation with Ali Flynn - Mindset of Raising Teen Girls vs. Boys | Ep. 72
I'm excited to welcome Ali Flynn, founder of Hang in There, Mama, to the Small Jar Podcast this week. Ali and I share a mission of wanting to support women as they manage the ever-evolving relationship they have with...
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Mindset Trap #7 - Personalization (aka Mom Guilt) | Ep. 71
I’ve been exploring this series on mindset traps, and I bet you didn’t know that “guilt” was one of them. Let’s be honest, if there was a state of being that many of us moms face, it’s the state of feeling guilty. The...
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Mindset Trap #6 - Perfectionism | Ep. 70
There are some among us who would call ourselves “perfectionists” and maybe others of us who wouldn’t. But what do you think the oppositive of being a perfectionist is? Have you ever thought about that? In this...
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Mindset Trap #5 - All or Nothing Thinking | Ep. 69
"All-or-nothing thinking" is a mindset trap where we can view situations in extremes. For example we think things are entirely good, or entirely bad, with no middle ground. Now, you can imagine why this type of...
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Mindset Trap #4 - Comparison | Ep. 68
We are hard-wired we are to compare ourselves to others. We don't like to admit it, because we think judging others is "bad", and we know it doesn’t feel good when others are judging us. But the reality is that this...
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Mindset Trap #3 - Validation Seeking | Ep. 67
Over the past few episodes of the Small Jar podcast, we have bene exploring the mindset traps of life with teens and the empty nest. We've covered confirmation bias and catastrophizing. This week, we explore...
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Mindset Trap #2 - Catastrophizing | Ep. 66
This is the second in a new series on the Small Jar Podcast about the mindset traps that keep us stuck in anxiety, sadness, and an inability to move forward. In this episode, I explore the trap of catastrophizing, or...
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Mindset Trap #1 - Confirmation Bias | Ep. 65
Mindset traps are available to all of us, at all stages of our lives. But for those of us navigating life with teens and the transition to the empty nest, we can fall prey to these traps in a way that keeps us stuck...
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Running Out of Time | Ep. 64
Have you heard the statistic that by the time your child is 18 that you'll have spent 90% of the time that you'll ever spend with them in your life? This is the kind of information that can not only cause us to think...
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Your Vision for Success as a Mom | Ep. 63
Have you ever stopped to think about how you define your success as a mom? What does success look like to you? And how do you measure it? Whether you realize it or not, you have in your mind a vision for success,...
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