Parenting young adults can feel like walking a tightrope. You’re not fully in charge anymore, but your influence still matters deeply. So how do you walk alongside them well?
Helpful, but not controlling? Wise, but still letting them make their own decisions? Loving, but with healthy boundaries?
In this first episode of a two-part series, we dive into the art of parenting post-childhood:
✅ Building their confidence without overstepping
✅ Practicing healthy emotional detachment
✅ Equipping them with the practical life skills they actually need
✅ Offering the kind of timeless advice that sticks
Whether you’re guiding a high school senior, a college student, or a 20-something finding their way, this conversation will both ground and encourage you.
A FEW THINGS MENTIONED
Tyler Lafferty Episode-PART 1: Helping Your Young Adult Find Their Career Path with Tyler Lafferty
Tyler Lafferty Episode-PART 2: Helping Your Young Adult Find Their Career Path with Tyler Lafferty
Donald Miller Great advice- Instagram Reel
QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE
- In what way can you practice healthy attachment with your young adult?
- As an exercise make a list of "You Are" statements that are true of your young adult that you can offer them or with the young person in your life, help them make a list of "I Am" statements that they can use when they need to fall back on remembering what is true of them no matter what.
- What practical coaching can you give around one of the practical life skills that we discussed earlier?
- Where do you need to offer yourself grace, maybe for a past response or maybe a place where you can grow into a new way of responding?
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We often hear the first half of life is about building and the second half of life is about facing limitations. That can be true. What is also true is that many women spend much of their lives investing in others, that the life trajectories we often hear talked about reflect a traditional career path that don't exactly capture a female career path.
The same is true for discussions around lifetime spiritual journeys. The people who have written many of the books we follow about spiritual journeys have been men and so naturally their teachings reflect their experiences. Bekah Stewart, author of the new book Permission to Matter, is a spiritual director who has been considering the spiritual journey of women.
In midlife many of us are waking up to parts of ourselves that have laid dormant for a long time. This has sometimes been out of survival, other times simply out of our caretaking roles. What would it look like if our spiritual path included reimagining life to its fullest NOW? What if we are to reawaken or rediscover parts of us that have been sleeping for a while?
This conversation may bring up some questions for you about the direction you are headed and how God is available to you. Your spiritual journey may be at an exciting juncture as you consider what it means to wake up and stand up. It is our time to rise after all.
FIND MORE ABOUT BEKAH STEWART
Bekah Stewart – Website and Instagram
Bekah Stewart Book- Permission to Matter
FEW THINGS MENTIONED
Caretakers of Our Common House- Carol Lakey Hess
QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE
- Which of the two paths she laid out do you resonate with most? The one of ascent and descent or the one of self-abnegation.
- What is one feature you can identify of your false self? How has it worked to protect you over time?
- How might you wake up and stand up to hidden parts of yourself?
- Who has authority over your decisions over your life, how might you offer God the most authority?
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It’s hard enough dealing with our own grief, but helping children, teens, and young adults navigate grief and loss is another level of hard, one that we often avoid or find ourselves lacking, not knowing how to do it.
Grief is never one-size-fits-all—especially for kids, teens, and young adults who are still learning how to make sense of the world.
In this conversation, we welcome Clarissa Moll—author, speaker, and widow—who vulnerably shares her personal journey of loss after her husband’s sudden death and what it’s looked like to walk alongside her own children through grief.
Together, we explore how to navigate conversations about death and loss with honesty and care, the unique ways children and adolescents express sorrow, and how presence—more than perfection—is what young hearts need most. From the role of trusted adults to creative outlets for grief expression, Clarissa offers wisdom for every stage of growing up with grief.
Whether you’re parenting a grieving child, mentoring a teen, or supporting a young adult facing deep loss, this episode is filled with practical tools and hopeful truth. Clarissa reminds us: it’s never too late to show up with compassion, courage, and connection.
FIND MORE ABOUT CLARISSA MOLL
Clarissa Moll's – Website and Instagram
Clarissa Moll's Podcast- Surprised by Grief Podcast
Clarissa Moll's Book- Hope Comes to Stay
A FEW THINGS MENTIONED
Clarissa's More Books
Till We Have Faces-Cs Lewis
Grieving Resources
QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE
- How did you experience grief as a child?
- How does that inform how you talk about grief with your own children?
- Is there a child in your sphere, maybe not your own child, that you could be a trusted adult for?
- No matter how long it's been, is there a conversation around grief that you need to have with someone in your life?
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FIND MORE ABOUT ALLIE MARIE SMITH
Allie Marie Smith's – Website and Instagram
Allie Marie's Podcast- Wonderfully Made Podcast
Allie Marie Smith's Book- Social Media Reset
A FEW THINGS MENTIONED
Allie's More Books
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE
- What do you want your legacy to be?
- How does social media serve you, and where is it positive in your life?
- In what way might social media be harming you?
- What opportunities would a social media fast provide?
- What boundaries can you set up to proactively prevent phubbing? (Phubbing means paying more attention to your phone than the person Infront of you)
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Holy Spirit feel familiar? Intimidating? Confusing? This part of the Trinity can be mysterious. And yet the Spirit is an integral part to living a life of faith. Author Margaret Feinberg joins the podcast to talk about the nature of Holy Spirit, how we can engage and access this delightful part of our Christian experience.
What have you been taught about Holy Spirit? What questions do you have? How might a life that dances in accordance with the Spirit bring you closer to God and to Jesus? These are questions we can walk through our days without considering, but when we do we discover there is more to our spiritual life than we often access. Let's do this together!
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Does Holy Spirit feel familiar? Intimidating? Confusing? This part of the Trinity can be mysterious. And yet the Spirit is an integral part to living a life of faith. Author Margaret Feinberg joins the podcast to talk about the nature of Holy Spirit, how we can engage and access this delightful part of our Christian experience.
What have you been taught about Holy Spirit? What questions do you have? How might a life that dances in accordance with the Spirit bring you closer to God and to Jesus? These are questions we can walk through our days without considering, but when we do we discover there is more to our spiritual life than we often access. Let's do this together!
FIND MORE ABOUT MARGARET FEINBERG
Margaret Feinberg's – Website, Instagram and Facebook
Margaret Feinberg Book's- The God You Need to Know
Margaret Feinberg's Podcast- The JoyCast
A FEW THINGS MENTIONED
Margaret's More Books
-Tohu Wahovu-representative of watery abyss( large body of water)
Five Prompting from Holy Spirit
- Is the prompting consistent with the scripture and the word of God?
- Does the prompting cause me to love God and love others?
- Does the prompting leave me with deep sense of peace, the shalom?
- Will the prompting yield the fruit of the Holy Spirit?
- Does wise counsel affirm this prompting?
QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU RISE
- What has been your experience with Holy Spirit?
- What would it look like for you to pay more attention to the spirit in your life?
- What is a journal prompt you can use to help you listen for Holy Spirit to speak?
- What question can you use to help you discern if what you're hearing is from Holy Spirit?
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