The Coaching Your Family Relationships Podcast
156 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDoes it feel like your family is falling apart and you're powerless to do anything about it?
Are you trying to get someone in your family to do better/be better/act better so that you can feel better?
Do you feel disconnected from your spouse and find yourself caught up in repeating the same unhealthy relationship scenarios over and over again?
Is your relationship with your adult children struggling? Are they mad at you? Setting boundaries? Telling you they want you to be different?
If you're feeling frustrated, confused, sad, and powerless in your family relationships, this is your podcast.
I'm Tina Gosney, a Certified, Trauma-informed, Master Relationship Coach. I've worked with hundred of clients just like you, who are struggling and don't know where to turn.
I understand you, because I was you. I was stuck right where you are - trying to get everyone else and everything else around me to change so that I could feel better. I felt completely powerless and hopeless in my own life.
Coaching was the vehicle that changed it all for me, and I know it can help you too.
Your life and family don't have to be this way. You are not powerless and there is hope. And there's work for you to do.
That's what we'll be doing in this podcast - getting down to the work of helping you to find hope and discover the agency in your own life.
The greatest gift you can give your family is to offer them a person who is at peace with themselves. Let's start creating that peace.
Want to contact me? Visit https://www.tinagosney.com/
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Episodes
Recognizing Grief and How it Shows Up, with Stephanie Pickle
May 19, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB#049 – Recognizing Grief and How it Shows Up, with Stephanie Pickle Grief comes when you lose something that was important to you. It doesn’t just come when someone we love dies, it shows up at other times in our lives when we lose something we value or when our life takes a different turn than we expected, and we lose the life we thought we would have. In this episode, Stephanie and I talk about what grief looks like, how to recognize it in yourself and others, and the importance of lettin...
Conditional vs Unconditional Love
May 12, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB#48 - Conditional vs Unconditional Love Most people think they know how to unconditionally love the people in their lives. They think they know what that looks like. But, most people have never received unconditional love from anyone in their life, so they don’t actually know what it looks like. This episode details the difference between conditional and unconditional love and some signs that will signal to you that you are giving conditional love episode 22: Showing Up as Your Best Self D...
Mothers - Stop Setting Yourself Up for Failure
May 05, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB#047 - Mothers - Stop Setting Yourself Up for Failure This is the second episode in a two part series. Listen to part 1: Episode 46 - Investing in the Mother is Vital to the Health of the Family Mother’s Day is only a couple of days away, and if you’re like most mothers, you’re NOT looking forward to it. Maybe Mother’s Day reminds you of all the ways you think you have come up short and failed. It can be a really painful day when you are caught in the negativity your brain will want to gi...
Investing in the Mother is Vital to the Health of the Family
April 28, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB#046 - Investing in the Mother is Vital to the Health of the Family Are you a mother who prioritizes everyone and everything before yourself? If you’re feeling the effects of perfectionism, mom guilt, identity crisis, or burnout, this episode will help you learn why you want to begin putting yourself on the priority list. Putting yourself as a priority is NOT selfish, it is vital to the health of the family. You will be able to love better, serve more, and have more joy in your life when yo...
3 Reasons You Are Struggling Because of Unmet Expectations
April 21, 2022 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB#045 - 3 Reasons You Are Struggling Because of Unmet Expectations The #1 one thing I hear in my coaching sessions is that my clients have unmet expectations in their relationships and they feel terrible because of it. Emotions like: frustration, disappointment, anger, sadness and they get stuck feeling those emotions because the other person is not changing, and then feel terrible. It doesn’t have to be this way. You CAN let go of the negative emotions around those expectations AND you can ...
Let's Talk About "All Things New" by Fiona and Terryl Givens
April 14, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB#044 - Let's Talk About "All Things New" by Fiona and Terryl Givens Language is important. The meanings of words are important. This book by the Givens explains how many of the words we use at church do not mean what we traditionally think they mean. The words we use are wounding many members, especially our children as the words they are hearing at church do not feel spiritually in alignment for them. Let’s get back to the true meanings of words like: forgiveness, sin, atonement, heaven, s...
Stop Reacting and Start Responding
April 07, 2022 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB#043 - Stop Reacting and Start Responding When you react from a really emotional state, you can do some damage to the people around you, and then you end up regretting how you showed up. In this episode with Micah Gosney, we'll show you some ways we have reacted and flipped our lids and how we show up differently now by responding on purpose. If you are really reactionary or have a very reactionary person in your family, this episode is for you. Learn the techniques we use to ground ourselv...
The Power of Curiosity
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MB#042—The Power of Curiosity Having trouble not being reactive to the people in your life? Do you find it hard to find patience and love for others when they are not showing you patience and love? When it’s hard to find love, it can be easier to find and hold the emotion of curiosity. This undervalued and underestimated emotion is a super powerful one. In this episode, learn what curiosity looks like and how it can help you become less reactive and a victim of your own nervous system. I’ll...
What the Heck is Trauma at Church?! A conversation with Lindsay Poelman
March 24, 2022 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MB#041 – What the Heck is Trauma at Church?! A conversation with Lindsay Poelman As I have recently learned about how trauma shows up in our lives, in many different ways, and how it affects the ways we then interact with our world, I began to see how trauma has showed up in my life, and in my family members’ lives. I have also had several people tell me their teen, young adult, and adult children have been telling me their child has told them they were traumatized at church. And, the parents...
Exhausting Yourself with Worry About Your Child
March 17, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MB#040 - Exhausting Yourself with Worry About Your Child Are you a parent who spends lots of time and mental and emotional energy worrying about your children? Worrying is a useless emotion and does nothing but cause problems. It causes parents to show up dismissive, controlling, disapproving, and disagreeable. Showing up this way doesn’t create an atmosphere where you child even wants to be around you, so you end up knowing even less about their life. Listen to this episode for some ideas ab...
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Kids
March 10, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB#039 – Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Kids The healthiest relationships have the strongest boundaries. If you are a parent who has trouble establishing boundaries with your adult children, this is your podcast. It can be hard to set a boundary, and then it can also be hard to uphold a boundary once you set it. Often, we are setting boundaries incorrectly and don’t really understand their purpose and how to set a boundary that protects you and eventually strengthens the relationship. Thi...
Saying Things You Wish You Never Would Have Said
March 03, 2022 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB#038 – Saying Things You Wish You Never Would Have Said We’ve all had times when we said something very unkind in the heat of the moment, and it causes damage to a relationship. Sometimes it just seems so hard to control the words that come out of our mouths, and then we have such a terrible feeling afterwards, thinking, “I never should have said that.” This episode addresses why it’s so hard to control ourselves in moments of heated emotions and how you can begin showing up differently at ...
Love and Peace with Your LGBTQ+ Child, with Meagan Skidmore
February 24, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MB#037- Love and Peace with Your LGBTQ+ Child, with Meagan Skidmore If you are the parent of an LGBTQ+ child, chances are, that there has been a time when you have felt like your entire world has crumbled and you're trying to put the pieces back together. Or, maybe you're in the middle of that right now, and don't know what to do. Meagan Skidmore and I have been there, and are past that point in our lives and have been able to find peace and a tremendous amount of increased love for our lives...
Barriers That Get in the Way of Us Loving Others
February 17, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB#036 - Barriers that Get in the Way of Us Loving Others Your ability to love others will directly affect the quality of the relationship you have with them. There are barriers to feeling loving feelings, and those are common across the board. In this episode I’ll give you 3 of the main barriers to love and why you will want to work on being aware when they are becoming barriers in your relationships. To begin working on developing better relationships with others, join my beta test for a n...
Finding Unconditional Love No Matter What
February 10, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB#035 - Unconditional Love No Matter What Sometimes it's hard to find love for other people. Sometimes those people who are hard to love are in our own families. This episode is all about finding unconditional love for others, from family members to complete strangers. Loving other people is much more about where you are in your own life, and much less about where someone else is in their life. You CAN love anyone. It is possible for you to think loving thoughts and feel loving feelings towar...
Finding Love and Connection with Your Adult Child, with Bonnie Lyman
February 03, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MB#034 - Finding Love and Connection with Your Adult Child, with Bonnie Lyman No one tells you when you have teenagers that having adult children will be just as tough, often tougher. It's not something anyone with young children or teenagers wants to hear! But, it is true. Having adult children is not easier, it's just a different type of hard. Listen to this episode as I have a discussion with Bonnie Lyman about how she has found love and connection with her adult children, even when, and es...
When Parenting Brings up Shame
January 27, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB#033 – When Parenting Brings up Shame Even the best of parents has a hard time not allowing their child’s choices to define something about themselves—good or bad. We all get caught up to some degree in Parenting Comparisonitis. The truth is, when your child makes choices you like, you can’t take all the responsibility for that. And when your child makes choices you don’t like, you can’t take all the credit then either. There are so many opportunities as a parent to live in shame and think ...
Sara Brewer and Overcoming Pornography
January 20, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB#032 - Sara Brewer and Overcoming Pornography It's hard to find a person in the church that hasn't been affected by pornography in one form or another. It's part of the world we live in, and it's infecting our families in so many ways. Sara Brewer, a fellow life coach, is doing so much good in this area right now with her program, "Overcome Pornography for Good." She addresses overcoming a pornography habit in a much different way than you have probably heard before. And she's getting amazin...
What Being Emotionally Mature Looks Like in Your Life
January 13, 2022 12:00 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MB#031 - What Being Emotionally Mature Looks Like in Your Life It’s really easy to be reactionary with your family members. We have patterned ways of dealing with problems and with each other and breaking those patterns can be difficult. One of the problems the patterns provide us is that we get stuck not allowing ourselves or the relationship to mature emotionally into a healthier way of addressing issues. This podcast episode addresses what it looks like when you take responsibility for you...
The Most Efficient and Effective Way to Help Your Family in 2022
January 06, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB#030 – The Most Efficient and Effective Way to Help Your Family in 2022 The way we usually try to help people is not usually the most effective way to help them, and we don’t even realize there is a better way. In this episode, I’ll talk about a more effective way to help them, and to have influence on the people you love. By prioritizing yourself and developing you, you will bring more of those things you want, like love, peace, understanding, and joy into your life and into your home. S...
What to Do When You and Your Spouse Disagree About Your Child
December 30, 2021 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB#029 What to Do When You and Your Spouse Disagree About Your Child This episode is taken from a class I taught earlier in 2021 because I saw so many of my clients coming to their sessions and talking about how the disagreements they were having with their spouse when it came to decisions about how to handle parenting issues. This episode is the audio from an online class, so you will hear me refer to some of the visual aids in the class. Tina Gosney is a certified life and relationship co...
Finding Joy in the Middle of Really Difficult Circumstances
December 23, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB#028--Finding Joy in the Middle of Really Difficult Circumstances When life gets hard, it’s difficult to find any joy in it. I see more and more people going through very difficult circumstances, and I don’t see them getting any easier, so let’s figure out how to have joy in the middle of those hard things. You don’t need to wait to find joy, you can feel it right now, no matter what. Tune into this episode to learn the 8 pillars of joy and how to cultivate those in your life. Episode #00...
How Parenting Detours Affect Your Marriage, with Aimee Gianni
December 16, 2021 17:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB#027 - How Parenting Detours Affect Your Marriage, with Aimee Gianni Sometimes the parenting road is pretty smooth and easy, and sometimes it gets really rocky. It can almost feel like there’s no road at all and you have to pave a new path in some uncharted territory. When that happens, there’s bound to be some differing opinions about which direction to head and how to get there, and that can put a lot of strain on a marriage. Tune into this episode with Aimee Gianni, LMFT and Master Coach ...
When you say, "It's all my fault"
December 09, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MB#026 – When you say, "It's All My Fault” If there’s one universal thing I hear clients say, it’s, “This is all my fault,” as they list all the ways they think they have failed their child. It’s not helpful to think this way and thinking this way doesn’t lead you to any resolution, it just keeps you stuck right where you are. This episode will address this thinking pattern and show you ways to begin questioning the thoughts you are having as you begin to get unstuck and move forward. Relati...
Comparing Yourself to Others and Coming Up Short
December 02, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB#025-- Comparing Yourself to Others and Coming Up Short It’s human nature to look around at other people and compare ourselves to them to see how we measure up. It’s also human nature for us to see how we fall short when we get stuck in comparison. The “compare and despair” mindset is real! Even though it’s natural for us to compare, it doesn’t help us to find love and acceptance for our own life’s circumstances and it can hurt the relationships we have in our own families. Join my Relati...
The Importance of Gratitude
November 25, 2021 13:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB#024 – The Importance of Gratitude – “Every day, think as you wake up, ‘I’m fortunate to be alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it.’” Dalai Lama. I’ve been reading “The Book of Joy” by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu. I highly recommend this book if you are looking to find more joy in your life! One of the pillars of joy is gratitude—of course! On this Thanksgiving Day, I’m dedicating this podcast to finding joy through cultivating gratitude in our lives. I’m shar...
Allowing Your Child to Write Their Own Story
November 18, 2021 15:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB#023—Allowing Your Child to Write Their Own Story – One of the hardest things to do is to let go of what you thought your child’s life was going to look like and allow them to take a different path, especially when the stakes feel really high. It feels like you’re living in the Twilight Zone because this was never supposed to happen. You can do a lot of damage to a relationship with your child by not allowing them to make their own choices. Listen to this episode for some insight on this to...
Show Up as Your Best Self During the Holidays
November 11, 2021 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB#022—Show Up As Your Best Self During the Holidays The holidays are coming, and that means lots of extra activities, entertaining, get-togethers, and lots of added stress. Emotions can get high when we factor in the added stress factor. You don’t need to let your emotions take over during this time of year, and you don’t need to let other peoples’ emotions dictate whether or not you enjoy the holidays. You have a choice in how you want to feel and show up during the holidays. Listen to this...
Expecting Other People to Be Different Than They Are
November 04, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB#021 – Expecting Other People to Be Different Than They Are The topic this week is one that gets all of us in trouble – when we expect other people to be different than they are. It can cause frustration, anger, resentment, and a whole lot of other emotions. Listen to this episode to find out the 3 reasons why you want to drop the expectations in order to have a better relationship. If you want to learn more about how to adjust your expectations of other people, come to my November 17 Mas...
How to Have a Hard Conversation
October 28, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBEpisode #20 - How to Have a Difficult Conversation Are you avoiding having important conversations with people you love because it feels too difficult? Listen to this episode to learn how to prepare yourself and come up with a plan that will help you feel confident to move forward. Need more help with handling difficult conversations? Come to my November Masterclass! Managing Difficult Relationships November 17, 2:00-3:00 pm MT CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Tina Gosney is a certified life and ...
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Parents' Hardest Questions Answered
October 14, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB#019 - Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Parents' Hardest Questions Answered This is part 2 of my discussion with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife. I asked a group of parents what their hardest situations are with their young adult children and what they would ask Dr. Finlayson-Fife if they had the chance. She answers questions ranging from how to help the child who experiencing trauma at church to knowing how to encourage your children to talk about their feelings about the gospel. Come to my N...
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Bridging the LGBTQ Gap in the LDS Church
October 07, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB#018 - Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and Bridging the LGBTQ Gap in the LDS Church Dr. Finlayson-Fife and I talk about the growing divide in the LDS church over LGBTQ issues. The divide has grown even deeper and wider after Elder Holland's BYU address. How do we begin to bridge the gap and become one in the church? How do we find empathy and compassion for someone who is feeling unheard, unseen, and unwanted in our faith community? What does actually loving someone with this reality in their l...
Why Your Thoughts are So Important
September 30, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MB#017—Why Your Thoughts Are So Important So many parents want their child to do something different or be different than they are. They tell me they just don’t understand why their child has made some of the choices they have made. I tell them they are focusing on the wrong thing. The things you are focusing on are the symptom of a bigger issue, and in this podcast episode, I’ll talk about that issue – their thoughts. Register for my October Masterclass! How to Show Unconditional Love to...
Showing Unconditional Love to Your Child
September 23, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB#016 - Showing Unconditional Love to Your Child Micah is back for this episode where we talk about what unconditional love looks like for us. Micah is a natural at showing people love no matter where they are, so I knew he needed to be a participant in this discussion. Stay tuned for registration for the upcoming Masterclass: How to Unconditionally Love Your Child October 14, 11:00-12:00 pm MT Registration opens October 1. The class will be live on Zoom, and you will have a chance to ask...
Crystal Hansen - Helping Your Family Member with Addiction
September 16, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MB#015 - Crystal Hansen - Helping your Family Member with Addiction Crystal Hansen is a coach who works with people who have a family member in active addiction. She has a lot of first hand experience in her own life with the topic and has so many great things to share with parents who find themselves in this position. You can find her on Instagram @crystalhansen_ Tina Gosney is a certified life and relationship coach. She helps her clients strengthen themselves so they can survive and thr...
When You Tell Yourself You Don't Know What to Do
September 09, 2021 22:00 - 14 minutes - 9.89 MBEpisode #014 – When you say, “I don’t know what to do” I often coach people on their thought of, “I don’t know what to do.” Seems like a normal thing to say to yourself, right? It might seem reasonable, but it isn’t useful, and it literally puts a red light on your brain’s ability to come up with solutions. This episode will help you find a better way to solve problems that can be confusing. Tina Gosney is a certified life and relationship coach. She helps her clients strengthen themselve...
Stewardship vs Ownership
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MB#013 - Stewardship vs Ownership This concept of stewardship vs ownership was introduced to me by Ganel-Lyn Condie, who is currently writing a book on the subject. When I heard it for the first time, my mind was blown and I couldn’t wait to share it on the podcast. Viewing every single circumstance in our life through a stewardship lens will not just change the way you think about your life, but the way you show up around the people in your life and how you experience your life’s circumstance...
Viewing Your Parenting Role with a Stewardship Lens
September 02, 2021 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MB#013 - Stewardship vs Ownership This concept of stewardship vs ownership was introduced to me by Ganel-Lyn Condie, who is currently writing a book on the subject. When I heard it for the first time, my mind was blown and I couldn’t wait to share it on the podcast. Viewing every single circumstance in our life through a stewardship lens will not just change the way you think about your life, but the way you show up around the people in your life and how you experience your life’s circumstance...
What is it Like to Be the Parents of a Gay Son? A discussion with Micah Gosney
August 28, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBWith the recent talk at BYU from Elder Holland, we have seen a lot of social media posting, most of which has been very polarizing, creating a lot of discord around the LGBTQ policy of the LDS church. When you hear stories of real people, in real situations, you begin to understand where another person is coming from and what their experience has been, and a policy can become more humanized. For this purpose, Micah Gosney (my awesome husband) and I discuss just a small part of our experienc...
Difficult People Part 2
August 19, 2021 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB#011—Difficult People pt 2 – Family Relationships Do you have a “difficult” person in your life? Sometimes (pretty frequently) we find those “difficult” people in our own families. So often, you will want dread being around that person because they are so hard to deal with or it feels like you can’t win and get along with them, no matter what. This episode is all about how to release that dread and anger and find peace within yourself. *Disclaimer* if you have someone in your life that is ...
Dealing with Difficult People Part 2
August 19, 2021 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB#011—Difficult People pt 2 – Family Relationships Do you have a “difficult” person in your life? Sometimes (pretty frequently) we find those “difficult” people in our own families. So often, you will want dread being around that person because they are so hard to deal with or it feels like you can’t win and get along with them, no matter what. This episode is all about how to release that dread and anger and find peace within yourself. *Disclaimer* if you have someone in your life that is ...
Dealing with Difficult People, part 1
August 12, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB#010 -- Difficult People, part 1 Do you have a “difficult” person in your life? We all encounter difficult people, and it can be so frustrating. So often, you will want to cut these people out of our lives because they are too hard to deal with or it feels like you can’t win and get along with them, no matter what. This episode is all about why you DON’T want to eliminate these people from your life and why they are important characters in your life journey. *Disclaimer* if you have someone...
Difficult People, part 1
August 12, 2021 12:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MB#010 -- Difficult People, part 1 Do you have a “difficult” person in your life? We all encounter difficult people, and it can be so frustrating. So often, you will want to cut these people out of our lives because they are too hard to deal with or it feels like you can’t win and get along with them, no matter what. This episode is all about why you DON’T want to eliminate these people from your life and why they are important characters in your life journey. *Disclaimer* if you have someone...
The Importance of Allowing Yourself to Grieve
August 06, 2021 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB#009- Grief Grief is a natural reaction to loss. We tend to think we only grieve when someone dies, and that isn’t the only time we experience grief. Anytime you have had expectations that were left unfulfilled and unrealized, you will have grief. But, you might not recognize it in that way. It might show up as a different emotion, but underlying that is grief. In this episode, I’ll tell you how to recognize grief, and what to do about it to be able to move forward. Tina Gosney is a certif...
Grief
August 06, 2021 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MB#009- Grief Grief is a natural reaction to loss. We tend to think we only grieve when someone dies, and that isn’t the only time we experience grief. Anytime you have had expectations that were left unfulfilled and unrealized, you will have grief. But, you might not recognize it in that way. It might show up as a different emotion, but underlying that is grief. In this episode, I’ll tell you how to recognize grief, and what to do about it to be able to move forward.
How to Stop Feeling Like a Failure
July 29, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB#008 - How to Stop Feeling Like a Failure If you are feeling like you have failed as a parent, this episode is for you! In this episode you will learn why you are feeling like a failure, where that feeling is coming from, and what you can do to start feeling better today. Don’t let your children’s choices define success or failure for you, get in the driver’s seat of your own life. email me at [email protected] Tina Gosney is a certified life and relationship coach. She helps her client...
What to Do When You're Offended
July 22, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MB#007 - WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU'RE OFFENDED Are you feeling exhausted by being around other people and trying not to be offended by what they say about you or your child? Maybe it feels like too much to deal with, so you have started limiting contact with certain people or have cut them out of your life all together. As humans, we need other humans, and we need to learn to be around others without feeling attacked and judged. In this podcast episode, I will teach you what to do with those offe...
Emotional Resilience
July 15, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB#006 - Emotional Resilience Our emotions are something so often overlooked as we try to feel better about the circumstances in our lives. It's usually overlooked because we don't know what to do with our emotions, so we end up avoiding them in harmful ways - harmful to ourselves and the people around us. But, if we learn to accept our emotions as a teacher in our lives, then we stop fearing and avoiding them. We start paying attention. If you are on the emotional roller coaster and think it...
How to Find Emotional Resilience
July 15, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB#006 - Emotional Resilience Our emotions are something so often overlooked as we try to feel better about the circumstances in our lives. It's usually overlooked because we don't know what to do with our emotions, so we end up avoiding them in harmful ways - harmful to ourselves and the people around us. But, if we learn to accept our emotions as a teacher in our lives, then we stop fearing and avoiding them. We start paying attention. If you are on the emotional roller coaster and think it...
Tom Christofferson - Finding Love and Understanding for your LGBTQ Child
July 06, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MB#005 - In this episode, Tom Christofferson and I have a discussion about families and their LGBTQ children. Tom is a gay latter-day saint who has been through many experiences in his life, including leaving the faith, and then returning years later. His experience and insight into what LGBTQ members and their families experience in the church is invaluable. He has also authored two books and you will find the links to purchase these books below. Some of the topics we cover: What to do wh...