46: Surrender and Cooperation in Estrangement

Becky Kolb is a Certified Life Coach specializing in Family Estrangement. Although you can't control another person's choices about reconciliation, you can control you so that it doesn't define your w...

2 Okt 49s

Waiting for your estranged one to change is often postponing your own life. When someone you love walks away, waiting can become a way of life. You wait for the phone to ring. You check your texts. Yo...

2 Okt 7min

It's been a while since I've published a podcast, but don't give up. I am in the process of revamping my website beckykolb.com Expanding into family estrangement aligns with my own experience as well ...

19 Sep 2min

You’ve heard it before – just let go in estrangement. Let it go. Surrender and you’ll feel better. Well, I surrendered and decided to let go and guess what? I didn’t feel better. I still obsessed and ...

29 Aug 10min

Cynical thinking in estrangement is more common than you may realize. What exactly is cynicism? Do you have unrealistic or inappropriate expectations of others? Let me ask another way. Are you harden...

19 Aug 9min

What are healthy boundaries? After all, you hear this phrase quite often these days. Especially between estranged parents and their kids. But what does the term mean? They are healthy limits you set ...

12 Aug 9min

Living well in the unfinished years is a topic to help you navigate how to live amid estrangement. Because let’s face it, when you are estranged from a loved one, living well isn’t something you do na...

5 Aug 13min

If someone had told me I would be asking how to grieve someone who is alive, I would have thought them to be crazy. Yet, that’s exactly the question I had when estranged from my kids. Grieving was fo...

29 Jul 11min