My kids all started school this week and I received the paperwork with the demands for scheduling and parent volunteer hours this semester in order for them to participate. It’s much more hectic than I anticipated and the craziness already began this week. As they are entering a busier and more demanding phase in their lives, I’m realizing I must enter a new phase in mine to be the support I want to be for them.

After calendaring my new schedule and having a family meeting this week, I realized I won’t have the bandwidth to provide you all with a podcast I can be proud of. I’m choosing to put my kids and my sanity above the podcast for the next few months. I hope to be back in January, but what lies ahead is still unknown.

Live Wednesday calls will continue for the time being because we all like conversing so much. If you’d like to be included, with or without a donation, email me at teri@emancipatedcoaching.com.

Thank you for a wonderful 2 1/2 years so far and I hope we’ll get to continue sometime in the future.

The primary developmental task your teen will go through, whether they grew up in high demand religion or not, is differentiation. Differentiation is a process all humans go through to establish an individual identity separate from their parents and authority figures. It is a process whereby we discover our values, our beliefs, our desires, and our boundaries.

The process our teens are going through is very similar to the one we experienced after leaving high demand religion. Now we get to apply the skills we learned from our own experience to support our teens in self discovery.

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Creating a sense of emotional safety in your home after high demand religion with teens is a little different than starting with young children. You’ve likely already established relationship patterns. And if it feels like your teen is closed off or won’t share their feelings and thoughts freely with you, there’s likely some work needed to heal those old patterns.

In this episode, we talk about some steps you can take now to create that safety for your teens and young adults if it’s already been damaged a bit in the past. _________________________________________________________________________________

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Monthly donors to the podcast receive weekly supplemental emails with additional exercises as well as access to a live weekly discussion call every Wednesday at 6:30pm MT. If you want the additional support from both Teri and our growing community of subscribers, go to www.emancipateyourmind.org and choose any monthly donation amount under “support the podcast and give a gift”.

New donors will be automatically added to the email list every month on the 5th with links to the discussions, exclusive exercises and tools to help you recover faster, and invitations to attend any additional workshops this year for free. To be added to the email list more quickly, please email us at teri@emancipatedcoaching.com right after making your donation and you’ll be added to the list within 24-48 hours.