Create Your Best Empty Nest

You dropped your kids off, drove home, and sat in a driveway that suddenly felt too quiet. Nobody warned you it would feel this lonely. If you're in the empty nest season (sometimes called empty nest syndrome, though...

You just said no to something and then spent the next four sentences apologizing for it. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone, and it's not a personality flaw. It's people pleasing, and it's one of the sneakiest...

Your kid used to need you for everything. Now they need you for almost nothing, on their schedule, in ways you don't control. If that whiplash has you lying awake wondering how to stay close to your adult children...

The car pulls out of the driveway and the silence hits different this time. If you're staring down the season where your kids leave for college, or you're already living in it, this episode is the real talk you actually...

Every time Hilary Weeks sat down to write music, the same thought showed up. "You're not good enough. Nobody wants to hear this." It happened so often she almost stopped noticing it. Then her husband said one sentence...

You Don't Have to Disappear to Be a Good Mom: The 30 Minute Secret with Hilary Weeks She released fourteen albums. Raised four daughters. And never had to choose between the two. If you're in the empty nest season...

There's a version of you standing at the edge of something right now - still deciding whether to jump. If you've been telling yourself you'll start that thing "when the kids are settled," "when life calms down," or...

My shoulders were up around my ears for I don't even know how long before I noticed. My neck was so stiff I could barely move. I'd been stuffing down my feelings about a challenging family issue and telling myself it...

You're not sad exactly. You're just on edge. Irritated at people who didn't do anything wrong. Worried about things that honestly aren't yours to worry about. If you've been wondering why you feel so anxious now that...

At 4:00 in the morning, she grabbed her bear spray, barricaded her bedroom door, and sat alone in the dark for two hours, convinced someone had broken into her house. It turned out to be a can of Pillsbury bread dough...

She used to sit in the bathtub every night listening to true crime, just to fill the silence in a house that had gone quiet way too fast. She'd moved to a brand new state while her daughter was still in high school, and...

Everyone says the empty nest is "your time." But when someone actually asks you what you want -- you go blank. Or something comes out that sounds right but feels hollow. Like you're reading off a list that belongs to...

Have you been walking around with an invisible weight on your shoulders... and you don't even know it has a name? It sounds like responsibility. It feels like self-improvement. But "should" might be the exact thing...

You've been taking care of everyone else for so long that somewhere along the way you forgot to take care of you. Today Joy Crawford is back to remind you that only YOU can make you smile - and that taking care of...

You know that quiet voice that keeps asking "is this really all there is?" This episode is for her. If you're in the empty nest season and you've been feeling lost, stuck, or like you've somehow disappeared into...