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Momentum Podcast with Erica Wiggenhorn
When your child pulls away, pushes back, or makes choices that break your heart, motherhood can feel like a weight of fear, guilt, and grief you carry alone. The silence at the dinner table. The text that never gets returned. The argument that erupts out of nowhere. These moments can quietly convince you that you've failed.
The Momentum Podcast is where host Erica Wiggenhorn meets moms in that painful space with honest conversation, practical tools, and biblical truth that actually holds weight in the hard moments. Drawing from her own raw experiences, current research, and her book Loving Your Wayward Child, Erica walks through the real challenges of parenting teens, young adults, and estranged children, from navigating volatile conversations to setting boundaries without severing connection.
This isn't a podcast that rushes past your pain with easy answers. It's one that helps you move closer to Jesus so He can move your family closer together, one faithful step at a time.
Episodes
8 episodes
How to Stop Bailing Them Out and Still Love Them Well
You wrote the check again. You said yes again. And the whole time you were doing it, you knew. This isn't help anymore. This is the same crisis on a different Tuesday.You want to stop. You just don't know how to stop without it feeling like...
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Loving Without Enabling
They need gas money. They need rent money. They need you to fix the thing they broke because of the choice you told them not to make. And if you say no, you're the worst mom alive. If you say yes, nothing changes. You've been on this ride befor...
How to Reach the Child Who Pulled Away
You've thought about sending the text a hundred times. You've typed it, deleted it, typed it again. You're terrified of silence. But you're also terrified of saying the wrong thing and losing whatever thread of connection might still be there.<...
When Your Child Pulls Away
They're alive. You could call them right now. But the relationship you had is gone, and no one brought you flowers or started a prayer chain for that kind of loss.Moms who've lived it call it the same thing: death without a funeral. You ...
How to Loosen Your Grip Without Losing Your Mind
If you let them go to the mall, they might get kidnapped. If you let them drive to a friend's house, they might wrap the car around a tree. You can get to worst-case scenario in under three seconds, and your kid knows it. That's why they think ...
Afraid of What I Can’t Control
You checked their location three times before lunch. You scrolled their social media from a fake account. You asked another mom to casually find out what's going on. And the whole time, you were telling your kid how important it is to be open a...
How to Stay in the Conversation Without Losing It
Your kid finally tells you something real. Something vulnerable. And before you even realize it, you've explained why they're wrong, justified the other person, and offered three solutions they didn't ask for.Now they're shut down. Again...
When Every Conversation Turns Into a Fight
If every conversation with your teen ends in a slammed door or dead silence, you've probably told yourself the same thing: Tomorrow will be better. And then tomorrow isn't.You weren't trying to start a fight. You asked a simple ...