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Podcast: The Almost Empty Nest—Letting Go, Redefined: Parenting Teens and Finding Yourself Again—with Small Jar Coach
Episode: When Being Just a Mom No Longer Feels Enough While Raising Teens or in the Empty Nest | Ep. 189
Description: Have you ever looked around your life and thought: Is this it? Am I really just a mom?
As our kids grow into teens—or leave the nest altogether—it’s easy to feel both grateful and yet strangely empty. I’ve been there too. For years, I measured my worth through my kids’ needs, my to-do list, or the approval of others. But underneath it all, I was constantly asking myself, Am I enough?
In this episode, I open up about my own journey through motherhood—those moments of folding laundry while everyone else was out chas...