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Podcast: The Almost Empty Nest—Letting Go, Redefined: Parenting Teens and Finding Yourself Again—with Small Jar Coach
Episode: Filling the Empty Nest | Ep. 17
Description: The empty nest. Think about the visual image of what is implied by the phrase, the "empty nest." The nest is a home, and its purpose is to keep eggs and baby birds safe until they are ready to fly off on their own. But what happens then? After the adorable baby birds grow up and leave the nest? In my head, I conjure up an image of a literal empty nest. Barren cold. Lonely. Without purpose. Empty.
Now, not all of us look at the empty nest in such a negative light. But even the concept of...