What if the reason you feel so anxious, frustrated, or exhausted isn’t because your teen is struggling—but because you’re fighting reality every single day?

In this episode, I’m breaking down what radical acceptance actually means when you’re parenting teens or moving through the empty nest. Not acceptance as giving up. Not acceptance as lowering your expectations. But acceptance as a skill that allows you to stop wasting energy on what you can’t control and start reclaiming your power in how you show up.

I walk you through four practical steps that help you move out of emotional reactivity and into steadiness—so you can acknowledge what’s happening, tell the truth about how you feel, work through the pain instead of resisting it, and then decide, with intention, who you want to be in the middle of a hard moment.

If you’re tired of feeling like your peace depends on your teen’s choices or this season being over, this episode will show you how to let go without losing yourself—and how to feel grounded and confident even when parenting gets hard or the empty nest feels heavy.

💡 Interested in learning more about how to create peace, confidence and connection as you raise and launch your teen? Join me for my next free masterclass: https://www.thesmalljar.com/class

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This empowering podcast offers life coaching for moms and parenting support for midlife mothers raising teens as they approach the empty nest, teaching them how to let go of control, stop overthinking, and shift their mindset, while also helping them set boundaries, improve communication, reduce anxiety, release mom guilt, and find purpose in the evolving journey of parenting teens and motherhood.