Coaching Your Family Relationships
When family relationships are full of conflict, it’s easy to lose yourself trying to fix them. On Coaching Your Family Relationships, family conflict coach Tina Gosney helps you navigate painful disconnection with clarity and strength—so you can stay true to yourself while building healthier relationships. Whether you're struggling with a strained relationship with your adult child, your spouse, or extended family, you'll find tools, mindset shifts, and encouragement to handle conflict without losing your peace. Start with the free guide: 5 Things To Say (and Not Say) to Your Adult Child After Conflict Visit: bit.ly/sayafterconflict
Episodes
How secure is your emotional connection with your partner?
In this episode of the Coaching Your Family Relationships Podcast, with guest Thomas Westenholz, we explore how attachment styles impact the way we relate to our partners—and how those patterns ripple into the rest of our family system.
You’ll learn:
- What attachment theory reveals about the ways we connect, argue, withdraw, or pursue in our closest relationsh...
Episode 183 - When It Comes Out of Nowhere: The Emotional Gut Punch
What do you do when a family conflict hits you out of nowhere and leaves you reeling? In this episode, Tina Gosney shares how to navigate the emotional “gut punch” of sudden family hurt. You'll learn why these moments are so disorienting, how our reactions can intensify suffering, and how to begin responding with clarity, courage, and self-compass...
Episode 182 - When Family Hurts: Why Pulling Back Isn't Selfish - It's Part of Healing
Episode Summary:
Have you ever stepped back from a family relationship because it just hurt too much to stay close? Maybe a child rejected your values, your faith, or even blamed you for their pain—and you’re left feeling broken, confused, and ashamed for needing space.
This episode is your reminder:
You are not br...
Episode 181 - When Love Becomes Control: How Enmeshment Keeps Mothers Stuck
Have you ever felt like your child’s success—or failure—reflects your worth as a mother? If you’ve found yourself trying to fix their problems, steer their life, or hold it all together for them, this episode is for you.
In this powerful and vulnerable conversation, I share how many women—especially mothers—unknowingly lose themselves in their r...
Episode 180: How Your Nervous System Shapes Reactions, Relationships, and Resilience with Leah Davidson
Have you ever wondered why pausing before reacting feels impossible for you? Why do your automatic responses keep hijacking your intentions, especially with the people you love most?
In this powerful conversation, Tina is joined by Leah Davidson, a Nervous System Resilience Coach, life coach, and Speech Language Patho...
Episode 179 - Break the Cycle and Lead Your Family with Calm, Loving Energy and Personal Integrity
You don’t have to repeat the patterns you were raised with.
Whether you're parenting toddlers, teens, or adult children, this powerful season opener will help you step into a new kind of leadership in your family—one rooted in calm, love, and integrity.
Tina Gosney shares why unprocessed emotions get acted out in paren...
You're Not Broken - You're Becoming (Season 5 Trailer)
Welcome to a brand-new season of Coaching Your Family Relationships! In this kickoff episode, Tina shares a vulnerable personal story about spiraling after a difficult conversation with a loved one—and what it taught her about emotional resilience, identity, and the power of curiosity. You’ll learn what to expect this season, including expert guests and r...
What Your Young Adult Child Wants You to Know
If you've ever wondered what your young adult child is really thinking—but they're not telling you—this episode is for you. Tina Gosney sits down with two self-aware and deeply insightful young adults, Clarice Paulsen and Caleb Price, to give parents a rare look inside the young adult experience.
You’ll hear honest and vulnerable stories about how parents unintenti...
Break Free from Perfectionism: Overcome Shame, Embrace Imperfection & Boost Self-Esteem
Show Notes:
In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into how perfectionism isn’t a virtue—it’s a crutch that keeps us hiding our true selves and trapped in shame. Discover why striving for perfection in your body, home, career, relationships, and more can lead to an unrelenting inner critic and prevent you from experiencin...
Episode 176- The Truth About Mom Guilt: Why You Feel It and How to Let It Go
Do you feel like you’ve failed as a mom? Is your relationship with your adult child strained, distant, or full of tension? You’re not alone. Many mothers struggle with mom guilt, shame, and emotional disconnection from their adult children. But healing is possible—starting with self-compassion and emotional resilience.
In this episode of Co...
Episode 175 - Communicate While Minimizing Conflict - 7 Keys to Staying Grounded
If conversations with your adult child feel tense, emotionally draining, or full of misunderstandings, you’re not alone. In this episode of Your Family Relationships, I’ll walk you through seven key principles of grounded communication that will help you navigate difficult conversations without losing yourself in anxiety, guilt, or defensi...
Episode 174: How to Stop Walking on Eggshells and Create a Healthier Relationship
If you have ever felt like you are walking on eggshells around your adult child—constantly giving but not receiving respect in return—you are not alone. Setting boundaries is one of the most common struggles parents face, but many misunderstand what boundaries actually are. Boundaries are not about controlling your child or shutting them...
Episode 173 - How to Rebuild a Relationship with Your Adult Child – 5 Essential Steps
Are you struggling to reconnect with your adult child? Do you feel like no matter what you do, there’s a growing emotional distance? In this episode of The Coaching Your Family Relationships Podcast, we’re exploring five essential steps that will help you mend your relationship and create a foundation for meaningful, lasting connectio...
#172 The Power of Courage: Transforming Your Relationship with Your Family Relationships
Are you struggling with a difficult relationship with your adult child? Do you feel stuck in frustration, sadness, and confusion, unsure of how to reconnect? In this episode of The Coaching Your Family Relationships Podcast, host Tina Gosney explains why courage is the essential emotion needed to break free from painful relationshi...
Tina Gosney is the Family Conflict Coach. She works with parents who have families in conflict to help them become the grounded, confident leaders their family needs.
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In this powerful episode of Coaching Your Family Relationships, I sit down with Jodi Larae Cunningham, author of Estrangement Healing for Mothers and Daughters. Jodi shares her personal journey of mother-daughter estrangement and the deep generational patterns that influenced it. Through personal growth, responsibility, and emotional healing, she found a path to reconnection. We explore how family conflict often stems...
Episode 169: Navigating Estrangement: How to Reconnect with Your Adult Child
In this Ask Me Anything episode, Tina Gosney, The Family Conflict Coach, answers two heartfelt questions from parents struggling with estrangement from their adult children. These relationships are complex, emotional, and often deeply rooted in family patterns that span generations. Tina shares insights from Bowen Family Systems Theory an...
Episode 168: Why Family Drama Keeps Repeating – and How to Break the Cycle
Are you stuck in the same frustrating arguments with your adult child or other family members? In this episode, we uncover how automatic family patterns keep you trapped in unhealthy dynamics and show you how to break free. Learn how subconscious programming influences your reactions, why awareness is the first step toward change, and four power...
Episode 167 – The Most Common Ways Families Handle Stress
Families are not a group of individuals living side by side – they are connected through the intricate web of relationships. When one person becomes stressed or anxious, it sends ripples through the entire family system. When this happens, we have typical patterns of managing that stress, and these patterns don’t solve the anxiety, it just passes from one family...
Bonus Episode: Get to Know Your Host – Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach
Meet the host of the podcast, Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach. In this episode, you’ll hear a glimpse into my story and about why I decided to become a coach that focuses on family relationships.
At minute 14 you’ll hear about The Mother Tree – the oldest trees in the forest who help to stabilize and nourish younger trees when they are in stre...
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