Bonus Coaching Session: How to Support Your Child’s Relationship with an Abusive Co-Parent (Without Gaslighting Them)

In this week’s Friday Coaching Corner, I respond to a mom’s heartfelt question that so many survivors share:

“How do I support my children’s relationship with their dad—because the court says I have to—while knowing he is emotionally and psychologically abusing them every week?”

This episode dives deep into one of the hardest balancing acts for protective parents: offering emotional honesty and safety without crossing into parental alienation.

You’ll hear strategies and validation around:

• How to build felt safety for your children when the other home is unsafe.
• Why it’s vital not to gaslight your kids—and what to say instead.
• How to reflect what you see (“Your body looks like it needs to move after visits”) instead of judging or rescuing.
• Using simple rituals and routines to help kids regulate after contact with the abusive parent.
• How to teach emotional intelligence and discernment so your kids can identify safe people and unsafe behaviors.
• Ways to contrast your safe home environment with the other parent’s behavior—without speaking negatively about them.
• The truth that children need one consistent, unconditional, loving caregiver to build resilience—and that person can be you.
  
  

This episode is a compassionate guide for every survivor-parent navigating the impossible tension between protecting your children and being forced to “support” a relationship that hurts them.

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