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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of LAUNCH, I’m joined by Thomas Miller, a licenced clinical social worker with 20 years experience working with families, to explore ADHD in young adults and how parents can help their adult children navigate some of the day to day struggles that come with it. Thomas shares practical tips to help parents understand these challenges, create a greater sense of urgency, overcome procrastination and support their adult child, especially when anxiety and addiction are involved.  We discuss what parents can do when their adult child has difficulty getting started, particularly with tasks they find uninteresting or unmotivating. This episode offers valuable insights into understanding ADHD and helping your adult child more productive with their time. To listen to the episode on ADHD -  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-your-kids-adhd-a-superpower-or-kryptonite/id1776661980?i=1000705222582 To reach Thomas Miller: www.ThomasMillerCoaching.com Thank you for listening! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail How many times have you tried to make changes with your adult child but could never follow through? Something would happen and you'd back down. You had the best intentions, your mind was made up, but you couldn't deal with their reaction, and you buckled.  After speaking with many parents, there are 3 concerns that come up repeatedly and in this episode, I talk about about what they are and what needs to happen before you begin setting new boundaries, expressing your expectations, changing the financial arrangements, and so on. It's common for most adult children who are struggling to launch to become angry, withdraw or resist, but that shouldn't stop you. You need to be ready for it. This mini episode will help you realize that your adult child's responses cannot get in the way of their growth and it's what you can manage that will determine how successful these changes will be.  As always, thank you for listening! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail What if some of what we’ve been taught about mental health, trauma and therapy is actually making our adult children more fragile and keeping them stuck? Today I’m joined by Dr. Richard Blake, a British psychologist PhD, researcher, author and breathwork expert whose work challenges some of the assumptions we’ve come to accept about mental health and trauma. We talk about therapy culture and the stories we tell ourselves about our mental health, and whether we may have taken the wrong approach to understanding psychological distress. Richard’s perspective really challenges our  thinking, and I personally found his approach a breath of fresh air. Follow Richard on social media @the_breath_geek Here’s the links:  https://www.instagram.com/the_breath_geek?stkn=ejZ3NGdqMWM5cDh4 Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail This episode may be uncomfortable for some parents to hear. If your adult child is in their 20s or 30s and still living at home, not working, not studying, not contributing, or showing little direction for their future, you may have asked yourself: “What can I do if they don’t want to change?” If you’re parenting an adult child who is struggling with independence, motivation, responsibility, confidence, or launching into adulthood, you may also be dealing with enabling, rescuing, tolerating, making excuses, being disrespected, of living in fear and of doing things for them they can do for themselves. This episode takes a closer look at what happens when parents reach this point and begin wondering what they can do next if they really want their adult child to launch. But be warned: this one may hit a nerve. 🐦 Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail For parents of adult children who are struggling to launch, support can quietly turn into enabling and enabling becomes disabling. If you have an adult child living at home, not working, not in school, or not moving toward independence, you've probably told yourself you're being supportive. Paying bills. Managing setbacks. Handling stressful situations for them. Sending job postings. Giving them space. Avoiding uncomfortable conversations. Letting them do whatever they want - even when it's unhealthy: like endless hours of YouTube, gaming all night, sleeping all day, eating poorly, never leaving the house. If you're not doing anything about it, you're supporting it. In this episode, we explore the difference between support and enabling for parents of adult children in their 20s and 30s and what happens when support turns into a pattern that keeps them in place instead of moving them forward. We talk about fear-based parenting, boundaries with adult children, and how to tell whether the support you're offering is actually about your child, or about managing your own emotions. By the end, you'll have a clearer, more constructive way to think about what real support for a struggling adult child looks like - one that moves them toward feeling confident, capable, and independent. Joining me today is Amanda Hill, a licensed mental health counselor, college professor, and the founder and clinical director of Connections of Hope, a therapy practice with multiple locations across Central Indiana, where she leads a team of more than 12 licensed therapists. She holds a Master's in Counseling Psychology and brings nearly 20 years of experience as a practicing psychotherapist. In 2025, she was named one of Time Iconic's Top 10 Powerful Women Championing Hope & Impact. Contacting Amanda Hill: Podcast:  https://connectionsofhope.com/podcast/mental-health-with-amanda Amanda's book: Making Sense of Dysfunction Get in Touch: https://connectionsofhope.com/ Thank you for listening! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail A surprisingly large percentage of parents have asked themselves this question: should my adult child pay rent? Or at least contribute, if they’re working? What if they're not? Am I being fair or   too harsh? Will it teach them, prepare them or upset them and hurt our relationship? What’s the right amount? What are others doing? This episode will make you think about your Adult child living at home. Why won’t they work? And if they are, why can’t they pay a share?  This is one of the most searched, most argued-about questions parents face  and this episode, I don’t hold back. Then again, I’m never do.  Hitting the follow/subscribe button, sharing this episode, rating and giving a positive review, are simple requests that go a long way.  Thank you for always listening in. I hope you walk away a little more educated and a lot more inspired.   Sending you hugs and gratitude, Shari Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of LAUNCH, I'm joined by the expert in adolescent psychology, Dr. Mark McConville, a clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience working with adults, adolescents, and families.  Mark is the author of groundbreaking book; Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn't Grown Up...and What to Do About It. It is the number one guide for parents with young adults who are struggling to move forward. I'm so grateful to have Mark on LAUNCH. He packs this episode with so many important topics, and of course, we saved the best for the end!   We talked about why so many young adults are failing to launch, what developmental skills they need to move forward, the role that parents play and perhaps most importantly, what you can do to help your adult children take ownership of their lives and move toward becoming responsible, relational, and interdependent.  I'm thrilled to have spent so much time talking with the leader in this field. I hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed interviewing Mark.  To contact Dr. Mark McConville: https://markmcconvillephd.com/ To purchase his groundbreaking, timely book: Here on Amazon.com Remember to share this episode, and as always ~ Thank you for listening! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail Did you every wish you knew what your adult child was thinking? They're struggling to launch into adulthood but they never want to talk about anything. Maybe you've tried, but it never amounts to anything. Except a door shutting and the silent treatment. You're not a mind reader or a therapist. You're just their parent, who feels like a stranger. How long can you handle this? A little while back I began talking to young adults, after having conversations with parents. And it was really helpful. I discovered truths that Moms and Dads didn't know.  In this episode, I share the 5 top things I've learned from talking to young adults who are struggling to launch into adulthood. These are thoughts and feelings that many parents have never heard from their own adult children. You may learn something about why your adult child appears to be unmotivated, withdrawn, or unwilling to find their way out into the world. I believe this episode will help you understand what may be happening beneath the surface, and what you can do to help your adult move forward towards independence. LAUNCH Scripts is available here: https://parentingfx.com/LAUNCHscripts Thank you for joining me today! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail For any parent of a young adult struggling with social anxiety, you know the debilitating effects are keeping your adult child isolated, cut off from relationships, missing career opportunities, and lacking the self-confidence to build a life of their own.  I know you worry constantly and wonder if they will have be free of it.  Who can you talk to? Better still, who can they talk to?  In this episode, I have a heartfelt conversation with Matthew Bowen who shares the steps he took to brake free from his severe social anxiety at age 22, after struggling with it his entire life.  Yes, there is hope after all.  If your son or daughter can not move forward because of their social anxiety, this conversation offers you real insight into what they can take to overcome it and what their life will look like once they do.  Please share this episode with someone you love who needs to hear it.   You can even contact Matthew for help. Please tell him that you heard his interview on LAUNCH. He'll be so pleased! How to contact my guest Matthew Bowen https://stan.store/matthewbowen On Instagram: @matthewbowen464 Remember to hit the follow button so you never miss an interview and if you really love LAUNCH, please rate and review us so that other parents can find us! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder why one of your adult children is struggling to LAUNCH while your other child (or children) seem to be doing  fine? You parented them the same, right? Wrong. The truth is, you couldn't have.  Because your children didn't come to you the same. They're genetically different which means they experience the world differently, respond to challenges differently, and needed different things from you as they grew.  Realizing this can completely change the way you understand your adult child Some are biologically more sensitive to change, uncertainty, and the challenges of life. They need a new approach especially for launching into adulthood. But understanding your adult child doesn't mean protecting them from every challenge. It means learning how to guide them in a way that helps them build confidence, resilience, and independence. In this episode, you'll discover why some adult children struggle more than others to move forward and the three things you can do to help your sensitive adult child take the necessary steps. Because the goal isn't to change who your child is. The goal is to understand who they are and help them blossom (hint, hint) into the adult they are capable of becoming. I'm excited for you to listen to this episode. As always, thank you for joining me! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail What if helping your young adult move forward didn’t require more rules, more demands or difficult conversations? What if it was actually simpler than that?  In this episode, I’m joined by Geoff Owen, founder of Biologically Aligned Parenting and author of The Parenting Assumption. Geoff challenges one of the biggest assumptions we make as parents: that it’s our job to manage and control our children’s behaviour. His perspective is both refreshing and surprisingly simple. He believes that when we stop trying to control our young adults, we create the conditions for connection to emerge naturally. If parenting has become exhausting in your home, this conversation may completely change the way you think about helping your young adult move forward. Maybe  the answer isn’t doing more, but doing less. Geoff’s message is simple: parenting doesn’t have to feel like a constant struggle. Listen in and decide for yourself. Contact Geoff Owen: https://geoffreyowen.com/ Thank you for listening!  Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail Failure to Launch is one of the most widely used terms to describe young adults who are not progressing toward independence, but what does it really mean, who does it apply to and where did the term come from? In this episode, I talk deconstruct Failure to Launch, as I take you through the history of it, from early research in Europe during the 1980s to Japan’s phenomenon of hikikomori and the rise of the term in popular culture.  You’ll learn why Failure to Launch is not a permanent label, why terms like “lost” and “stuck” may not accurately describe what’s happening, and why this challenging stage for young adults has existed for decades. I also highlight the work of psychologist Dr. Mark McConville, author of Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn’t Grown Up...and What to Do About It, whose book became an important contribution to understanding this growing conversation. I’m excited to have Dr. McConville joining me on a future episode where we’ll explore this topic even further. Most importantly, I’ll share 5 practical tips to help your adult child move forward, including how to change the dynamic of your relationship, stop enabling, set healthy consequences, and become the parent they need now. If you’ve ever felt stigmatized by the term Failure to Launch, wondered what you can do to help them move through this stage, this episode is for you. Remember to hit the follow button, share this with a friend, and leave a review if you really love listening to LAUNCH. Thank you for being here! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Dr. Isabela Granic, a professor, psychologist, and developmental researcher with 25 years of experience studying what young people need to thrive. She’s also a parent of two young adult children and the founder and CEO of Liminal Learning, an innovative program designed to help young adults develop the social skills, confidence, responsibility, and a sense of purpose they need to navigate adulthood. Even though we're talking about the program at the start, Dr. Granic offers incredible suggestions for parents to reconnect with their adult children and help them to thrive. As always, it's closer to the end of the episode. Please don't miss this invaluable advice. You'll leave feeling as though you can do something. I'm really excited to share this conversation with you because I believe Liminal Learning is incredible, and so is Dr. Granic.  If you're interested in knowing more, here's Dr. Granic's website: https://liminal-learning.com/ Remember to hit the follow button, share the episode and rate/review if you love listening to LAUNCH. As always, thank you for joining me!  Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while, I release an episode that needs no introduction.  And this is one of them.  It's the number one issue that every parent with a struggling adult child living at home has no idea how to handle.  They honestly believe that there are absolutely no consequences that would stick.  That level of disrespect is so telling. They aren't bad kids. Nor are they lazy. There's a bigger problem and I talk about it in this episode. But more than that, I explain everything you need to know about consequences and what you can do to create your own. Please share this episode with any parent that struggles with this. Remember to hit the follow button, and while you're here, I'd be so grateful if you could rate the podcast and leave a positive review. As always, thank you for joining me. Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been doing everything for your adult child and their lifestyle hasn't changed, in fact nothing about their life has really improved, it's time you stop supporting them.  No, you don't have to kick them out. Unless of course circumstances have become so unbearable at home, and they seem completely uninterested in being responsible and respectful, which means you're setting a move-out date.   If that's the case, don't feel bad. Many parents are at that point.  But if you're not there yet and you still feel hopeful that your son or daughter can become fully independent, while living at home, than you just need a new approach. And today's episode is going to introduce you to one. This is another mini episode with just me sharing something that has been on my mind. There's a word that is so overused that it is now misunderstood. And we need to reconsider a new perspective and approach.  By the end, I'll give you an exact statement for you to say to your adult child that could pave the way for their future.  Remember to visit my website ParentingFX.com for free and shoppable resources.  Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it, and hit the follow button so you never miss a drop. Thanks for listening! Register for the upcoming free LAUNCH Masterclass ; www.parentingfx.com/register This is a more robust, holistic parenting approach to helping you and your adult child move toward confidence, independence, responsibility, and a closer relationship. If you're unsure whether or not your adult child is struggling with Failure to Launch,  please grab the FREE Failure to Launch Checklist here:   🗣️One-on-One Consultations are always available. Click here! Email me if you have any questions at: [email protected] 🎙️Remember to hit the SUBSCRIBE button so you never miss an episode.  Please share this episode with another parent who needs to hear it. Follow me on Instagram & TikTok Search @sharijonaslifefx YouTube has all of the interviews available to watch! CLICK HERE...