032: Coping with an Empty Nest with Celia Dodd, Journalist and Author
Description
You spend 18+ years raising your children, then all of a sudden, they’re out of the house living their adult lives. This major transition can create a broad range of emotions, a newfound freedom, and potentially an identity crisis.
How can parents successfully navigate this transition and even embrace new opportunities?
Podcast guest, Celia Dodd, is here to help us navigate through. Celia is a journalist and author of ‘The Empty Nest: Your changing family, your new direction’, which was inspired by her own experiences when her three children left home. She set out to discover whether other parents – fathers as well as mothers – felt as sad and confused as she did.
In this episode, Celia shares her experience when her children left home and how it caused her to write a book on how the empty nest syndrome.
She shares what the parents who most successfully dealt with the transition had in common and how parents can turn this emotional time into an opportunity. Celia also offers advice for how to update the parent-child relationship, as the child becomes an adult.
Even if you don’t have a child leaving home for years, this podcast will get you prepared for the empty nest when it comes.
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