You can do the inner work. You can read the books, see the therapist, write the memoir. And then you become a parent — and the work starts all over again, just with smaller people watching.

This episode is a conversation with James Moffitt of the Parenting Adult Children podcast, and it's for anyone who thought healing was something you finished — and then discovered it's actually something you practice, relationship by relationship, season by season.

What We Talk About In This Episode

• Why leaving a rising career in TV news turned out to be the beginning of the real work, not the end of it
• External validation: how the need to be seen can quietly become the thing running your life
• What Angie noticed the moment she became a parent, and how quickly her own unfinished healing showed up
• The idea of "emptying out" — why your kids (and your partner) can't really hear you until they feel heard first
• How Angie's oldest son shifted when she told him the truth: I've never been the parent of someone your age before. I'm figuring this out too.
• The tightrope of launching adult children—being a safe place without becoming a safety net
• What losing her mom taught Angie about what she had needed from that relationship all along—and what she's trying to do differently with her own kids

Guest Links

ABCs of Parenting Adult Children podcast with James Moffitt:

Website: https://www.parentingadultchildren.org/

Instagram: @parentingadultchildren125

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