Helping VS Enabling (with your adult children)

Helping VS. Enabling (with your adult children)//🌟 HELPING VS ENABLING: Navigating the Path to Empowerment 🌟

🔥 Are you a Mom caught in the heart-wrenching tug-of-war with your estranged or defiant adult child? If you've ever wondered whether your support is a lifeline or a trap, this video is your essential guide. Get ready to discover the game-changing insights that will transform your approach from enabling to empowering. Stay tuned, because it's time to reclaim your role and reignite hope in your relationship.

👉 Some say it's EASIER to enable, because HELPING takes more time and effort! But let's challenge that notion together.

🤝 Are you participating in the misbehavior?

🔍 So, what exactly do we mean by 'helping' and 'enabling'?

Helping: Providing support that encourages growth, responsibility, and self-sufficiency in our adult children.

Enabling: Unintentionally shielding adult children from consequences, hindering their responsibility and growth.

🎯 Impact of Helping:

Facilitated Growth: Empowering personal, emotional, and psychological development.

Empowerment: Fostering self-esteem and autonomy, crucial for navigating adulthood.

Strengthened Relationships: Building trust, understanding, and healthier family connections.

🔥 Impact of Enabling:

Stunted Growth: Preventing emotional and psychological development.
Dependency: Hindering self-sufficiency and confidence.

Strained Relationships: Strain on parent-child relationships and overall family dynamics.

🚀 Balancing Helping and Enabling:

Positive Impact: Fostering growth, self-esteem, and relationships.
Healthy Boundaries: Setting limits to encourage growth without dependency.

Communication: Open dialogues for tailored support aligned with goals.
🚀 Real-life Scenarios:

1. Financial Support: Juggling between providing immediate relief and fostering financial responsibility.

2. Relationship Issues: Navigating between being a supportive parent and allowing emotional growth in challenging relationships.

These real examples showcase the challenges Moms face, making decisions between enabling and empowering. Join us in unraveling strategies to navigate this complex journey, and together, let's nurture growth, independence, and healthier relationships.

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0:00 - Introduction
1:23 - how to support without enabling
2:21 - enabling vs supporting mental illness
2:45 - enabling vs empowering
3:25 - what is enabling in addiction
4:09 - when helping is enabling
4:34 - enabling bad behavior in adults
5:00 - enabling examples
5:23 - what is enabling behavior

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enabling bad behavior in adults
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[sallyharriscoach]

Remember, you're not alone. What's one positive step you've taken recently?

[sheenaobright]

Great examples. I like the question you gave to ask yourself before you make the decision.

[marciahammond]

Oh Sally this hits home. It started with "mom I miss your rock cakes" "I'll send you the recipe my boy". "Oh mom we don't have a mixer", "OK my boy, we'll buy you one". "Oh mom we can't seem to make them here in England, they go soggy so quickly, but thanks for the mixer". "Mom we . "OK my and I'm a right royal SUCKER because we've been giving and giving and now that we've stopped he is upset.

[jenniferdas]

This video helped me to understand where I am enabling my child. I really needed this. The fact that Sally understands the impulse to help your child and she’s given me hope I can interact at a more useful level with my child.