About this episode

Tina Gilbertson revisits the topic of estrangement and discusses how time can be a friend to parents seeking to reconnect with their adult children.

Episode 1 Redux Most parents who are unwillingly estranged from their adult children worry about time passing while they're estranged. They know life is short. Grandchildren grow up fast. Time is not unlimited. This makes parents anxious to reconnect, which is understandable. But acting on anxiety too often leads to ineffective behaviors. In this revitalization of a classic episode, RC Podcast host Tina Gilbertson, LPC, offers thoughts on why Time can be a friend to parents in pain over estrangement. She names five different gifts that Time can bestow, and suggests how parents can make use of them while estranged. This soothing episode will help listeners treat the time they have as truly precious, encouraging them not to lose opportunities by helplessly longing for change. For evidence-based information and tools to repair your relationship with your estranged adult child(ren), read Tina's book, Reconnecting With Your Estranged Adult Child (Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2ZhetMe ) Club members can discuss this and every episode in the General Discussion forum inside the Reconnection Club at https://reconnectionclub.com/community/forum/general. Not a member yet? Learn more and join…

People in this episode

Host: Tina Gilbertson

Topics covered

• estrangement
• parenting
• time management
• reconnection
• mental health

Keywords

• estrangement
• adult children
• reconnection
• time
• parenting
• anxiety
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Reconnection Club, Substack

Books & works: Reconnecting With Your Estranged Adult Child

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