Eps 546: Being empty nesters with Vibha Arora

Episode 546

My guest today is Vibha Arora, and we’re discussing being empty nesters.  Vibha and I both share stories and feelings from our own kids launching and discuss how our relationship with our partners change.  We get into how to rediscover yourself as someone besides Mom or Dad.  Vibha and I finish our conversation, chatting about checking-in with our recently launched baby adults and the importance of tending to ourselves.   


Guest Description 

Vibha Arora is a Transformation Coach and Parenting Coach that specializes in helping her clients and parents look under the surface to find solutions that are more than just a quick fix. She works with clients via Zoom video from wherever they are (and she is!) in the world. 

She has her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy and is a certified parent/teacher Positive Discipline Facilitator, Conscious Parenting Guide and certified Subconscious Transformation Practitioner. She’s been providing a safe, judgement free space for clients to process thoughts, feelings, beliefs, challenges and celebrations on their growth journey for over a decade. 

Vibha lives in Southern California and her most valued teachings come from being Mom to her two grown and flown kidults who are now 24 and 27 years old.

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Takeaways from the show

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  • The phrase “empty nest” versus “freedom nest” 
  • Our adult children leaving is our goal 
  • There’s a wide range of feelings and emotions that come when our children leave the house, and those are all okay 
  • Our relationship with our partners changing during this phase of life 
  • Relaunching yourself as an empty nester & identity shifts 
  • Letting go of control and trusting our newly-launched adults 
  • When we jump in and fix things, we rob them of experiences and learning 
  • We have to be okay with it when our kids don’t take our suggestions or advice 
  • Clarifying expectations and making a plan about checking-in with each other 
  • 5 Minute Journal Prompt: “I am…” 

What does joyful courage mean to you: 

The courage piece of it, to me, means doing uncomfortable things, hard things, sometimes saying things and doing things that are ultimately in our alignment of who we really are as people.  They’re for our highest good and it takes courage sometimes to cultivate with that or align with that.  Then the joyful part, I mean, that’s just – joy is such an essential part of our being and maintaining that as our true north.  Just finding the joy, following the joy, interweaving the joy into all of it, because it’s always there.  Just looking for it and letting it find you too.

Resources:

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Vibha on Facebook 

Kaleidoscope- Shifting Perspectives With a Twist 

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[00:00:00] Casey O'Roarty: Hey, welcome to the Joyful Courage podcast, a place for inspiration and transformation as we try and keep it together while parenting our tweens and teens. This is real work, people. And when we can focus on our own growth and nurturing the connection with our kids, we can move through the turbulence in a way that allows for relationships to remain intact.

[00:00:27] My name is Casey O'Roarty. I am your fearless host. I'm a positive discipline trainer, space holder coach and the adolescent lead at Sproutable. I am also the mama to a 20 year old daughter and 17 year old son walking right beside you on this path of raising our kids with positive discipline and conscious parenting.

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