Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

Eps 447: Viewing parenting challenges as invitations with Andrea Owen


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My guest today is Andrea Owen. Andrea and I connect over our love of coaching and keeping things real and authentic (and our matching ‘surrender’ tattoos!). Andrea shares what she’s working on with her own two teenagers right now, and I ask how we can shift our perspective to view parenting challenges as invitations instead of just focusing on problems. We talk about how we can trust that things will work out okay, and Andrea shares what questions she asks people to help them discover their values and why value work is important. We dig into how we don’t know the impacts of our parenting, how our kids experience it, or how we will all remember what happened. Lastly, I ask Andrea how she coaches parents to move into a more present way of being in their relationship.


Takeaways from the show

  • How our own teenage years impact our parenting 
  • Viewing challenges as invitations 
  • Trusting that things are going to be okay 
  • Defining your values: What’s important to you? What’s important about the way you live your life? 
  • Values change over time 
  • “Sending our kids to therapy with a carry-on bag, not a U-haul truck”

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