Many people are scared about losing a relationship with their adult children once they leave the home, but knowing how to prevent this from happening seems daunting! Parents wonder if the steps they are taking are enough to create relationships with children where they will later decide to remain close! 

In today’s episode, Quinn teaches listeners: 

1. How to handle an adult child cutting you off 

2. The importance of letting our children have a voice 

3. The danger in being obsessed with control over connection 

Mind Renewal Tip: 

When we focus on control over connection, we can logically assume we are making our children crave time away from us when they launch! 

Scripture Renewal Tip: 

But those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31 

Article: 

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/30/psychologist-parents-who-have-close-bonds-with-their-adult-kids-do-7-things.html 

Sometimes in life we get a little stunted as we age. Whether at 35, 55 or 75, we need reminders of the small lessons we know that keep us focused on moving forward and into the place that God wants us.   

In today’s episode, Quinn discusses some important things she would tell the younger version of herself. These important lessons include the understanding that:  

1. One small step at a time will change your life. 

2. Don’t strive for what others have, focus on where God is calling you.  

3. Pain is a part of life. Don’t let it stop you. 

4. Humility and accountability will change every relationship.  

Mind Renewal Tip: 

If we take time to apply the life lessons we’ve learned continually, we will not only get older but truly wiser with joy mixed into that reality.  

Scripture Renewal Tip: 

For God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 

We all want to be mentally healthy but sometimes it’s hard to know what to do in order to keep ourselves there. Understanding the things that hurt us is important but knowing where to put our focus is even more important than that! 

In today’s episode, Quinn teaches listeners some of her top tips for staying mentally vigilant. This list is not exhaustive but gives listeners a chance to understand the importance of habits that keep our mental health strong including:  

1. Staying rooted in Christ 

2. Setting boundaries 

3. Forgiving ourselves and others 

Mind Renewal Tip: 

Not forgiving others is drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. We must forgive in order to be mentally healthy! 

Scripture Renewal Tip: 

Let your yes be yes and your no be no. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one. Matthew 5:37 

In today’s society, disagreeing is a part of culture. But sometimes disagreements among believers or with non-believers seem to take on a tone or style that doesn’t align with Jesus. This leaves believers in a position where they must learn how to disagree in a way that honors Jesus while also being able to be honest with their convictions.  

In today’s episode, Quinn teaches listeners how to model their disagreements after Jesus by: 

1. Examining the tones that Jesus used in fights 

2. Looking at the people he disagreed with and understanding why 

3. Teaching steps to follow when modelling our behavior after him  

Scripture Renewal Tip: 

Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in mind the concerns of God but merely human concerns! 

Mind Renewal Tip: 

When we disagree with others, we need to be mindful that our words and actions reveal Jesus is alive and active within us! 

In today’s final bonus episode of the “What I’m Learning” series, Quinn interviews Sage Leichner, a mother of two teenage sons who is passionate about sharing wisdom with others moms. In the episode, she shares her best wisdom on raising boys with Godly character, strong identity and emotional control.

In the episode, Quinn and Sage discuss ways that moms of boys can:
1. Help them work with their anger in a way that is productive
2. Guide their sons individually with safeguards
3. Show emotionally vulnerability as we seek to teach our sons how to be vulnerable in their own emotions

Mind Renewal Tip:
Fear-based parenting must be replaced with peace and calm when raising boys of character.

Scripture Renewal Tip:
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3

In today’s episode, Quinn and Esther discuss what Esther has learned about raising girls! She shares her passion about becoming their friend in addition to being their parent for long-term connection.

In the episode, Quinn and Danyel discuss:

1. Understanding that even when our circumstances change, God doesn’t.

2. Relying on community when feeling isolated

3. Singing God’s praise during the worst of times

Mind Renewal Tip:

We often think that we will know God best when we see his good but we often know him best when his love and character carries us through hardship.

Scriptural Renewal Tip:

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the Lord. Jeremiah 9:23-24

In today’s “What I’m Learning” episode, Quinn shares four things God has been teaching her lately that have been convicting her and pushing her to grow. She uses this episode to share stories that have happened in her life that are giving her wisdom through hardship.  

In the episode, Quinn discusses:  
1. The power of letting children be who God created them to be 
2. Letting stories be written about you that are not accurate and letting God write them well 
3. The power and need for us to share our faith with others 

Mind Renewal Tip:
Even when others assume the worst, God sees your heart. Trust God that he will fight for you and rest that your character will show over time.  

Scripture Renewal Tip: 
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Luke 6:35 

Before you jump into this episode, we want to let you know that while we’re having honest conversations today, some of the topics we’ll be discussing might not be suitable for all ages.

In today’s episode, Quinn and Esther discuss what Esther has learned about raising girls! She shares her passion about becoming their friend in addition to being their parent for long-term connection.  

Within the episode, Quinn and Esther discuss: 
1. The importance of talking about controversial topics with kids so that you can be their teacher 
2. The value in being relatable so that children feel safe and connected 
3. The need to teach then how to handle hard situations versus assume they will know the right decision to make 

Mind Renewal Tip: 
If you want to have a close relationship and friendship with your daughters, that relationship begins when they are teens not adults.  

Scriptural Renewal Tip: 
You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:5–9 

In today’s episode, Quinn interviews Jarrell Peak, family pastor at Atascocita Community Church and podcast host, and asks him about how he handles staying focused on the things that matter most in the busy seasons of life.  

In the episode, Quinn and Jarrell discuss: 
1. The importance of asking the question, “Does this make me busy or better?” 
2. The value of knowing that God determines the work and our job is to respond. 
3. How to be intentional with children when our time is limited 

Mind Renewal Tip: 
We often quit when things get hard but God often uses those hard moments to teach and refine us into who he has called us to be.  

Scripture Renewal Tip: 
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. Proverbs 16:9 

Wisdom is something we all want, but it’s hard to find. Today’s episode is part two in our “What I’m Learning” series where my 72-year-old friend Brenda Oliver shares some of her best advice in what she’s learned from two failed marriage and finally finding her prince.  

In this week’s episode, Brenda shares some of her favorite lessons she’s learned about: 

     1. What to look for and how long to wait when choosing a mate
2. The Importance of Letting Things Go that Don’t Matter
3. The power of the word helper in thinking of how to help your spouse in marriage 

Mind Renewal Tip:
One of the best lessons with age is learning that not all things need to be taken as seriously as you once thought in your younger years.

Scriptural Renewal Tip:
Genesis 2:18 “And the Lord God said: It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him