by justaskyourmompodcast | Sep 15, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Teenagers
When we were in middle & high school in the 80’s, all of my friends had intact 2-parent homes. There’d been a couple divorces in my extended family—and more later down the road—but 40ish years ago, no one I knew dealt with the issue. (and I lived in several...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jun 30, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Marriage, Teenagers, Wellbeing
Whew! If you’re paying any attention at all, you’ll know there’s a growing awareness and trend toward recognizing and breaking negative generational cycles within families. It’s something we’ve talked about on JAM on the regular, and we’re happy to welcome...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Jun 16, 2025 | Family Topics, Health, Marriage
We did an episode back in the day on the Sandwich Generation. If you don’t know the term, it refers to those who are “caught in the middle” caring for both children and elderly parents. Typically, these are people (chiefly women) in their 40s and 50s caring...
by justaskyourmompodcast | May 5, 2025 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Uncategorized
When two people from different backgrounds and with different temperaments, opinions, histories, etc. live together, conflict is inevitable. Add children to that mix (even MORE temperaments, to-do lists, busy-ness, etc.) and conflict is guaranteed to be part of...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Oct 7, 2024 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Teenagers
Talking today about the gig of motherhood. If we do it right, we’re going to end up with children who leave and make their own ways in the world. It’s the most all-consuming thing for parents and…..then it isn’t anymore. Here we are in our empty...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Aug 5, 2024 | Family Topics, Health, Marriage, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
Is joy the icing on the cake in life or is it the fuel on which it runs? Are some people just born happy? Is joy just random and fleeting? Today we begin exploring the concept of JOY. This series of podcasts is taken from a little book by Dr Marcus Warner and Chris...
