When your adult child begins to feel distant, the hurt can reach a very tender place in a mother’s heart.

Maybe they don’t come visit very often. A text goes unanswered. Their tone feels different. You find out about something you weren’t included in. Or maybe nothing dramatic has happened—you can simply feel that the relationship has changed.

In this unedited episode, Marci talks about the emotional pain many mothers experience when connection with an adult child feels uncertain and why that pain can activate protective patterns like overthinking, trying harder, withdrawing, or walking on eggshells.

Through the lens of the Inner Relationship Method™, you’ll learn how to recognize the hurting part underneath the fear, understand what your protective parts may be trying to prevent, and invite your Resourced Self to lead instead.

You’ll explore:

• Why emotional distance from an adult child can hurt so deeply
• What may be underneath walking on eggshells with your adult child
• How fear of losing connection can quietly begin running the relationship
• The difference between your hurting parts, protective parts, and Resourced Self
• How to love your adult child without abandoning yourself
• A simple practice for asking, “How do I want to show up here?”
• What it can mean to lead as the matriarch in this season of motherhood

You cannot control whether your adult child calls, includes you, responds warmly, or relates to you in the way you wish they would.

But you can learn how to care for the parts of you that hurt, bring your emotional power back home, and choose who you want to be in the relationship.

You can love your child deeply without leaving yourself behind.

This episode is also available to watch in video on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

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