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Lori K Walters

Lori K Walters

The ultimate doubt for mothers of young adults: Am I even the right parent for this kid?

It’s so hard some days, parenting teens and young adults… the seemingly constant backtalk, accusation and opposition, the equally painful…

4d ago

The ultimate doubt for mothers of young adults: Am I even the right parent for this kid?

4d ago

Lori K Walters

Are you giving your Teenager Feedback or Blame?

You’ve asked your teen a thousand times to change out the garbage bag when it’s full. You walk into the kitchen in the morning and start…

Jun 28

Are you giving your Teenager Feedback or Blame?

Jun 28

Lori K Walters

My teenager pushed and pushed me… until I did this.

In my twenties, I lived on a communal organic sheep farm where we used electric fences to keep the woolly ones grazing on the right…

Jun 21

My teenager pushed and pushed me… until I did this.

Jun 21

Lori K Walters

Why Parents of Young Adults need Deep Self Care

When I became a mother, I thought that putting my kids first meant that there was no room for my self-care. And I’ve talked with so many…

Jun 7

Why Parents of Young Adults need Deep Self Care

Jun 7

Lori K Walters

Forget about your Parenting Triggers and Do This instead

For all of us who deeply feel the overwhelm and angst of parenting teens and young adults, the worry of what’s going to happen to them out…

May 31

Forget about your Parenting Triggers and Do This instead

May 31

Lori K Walters

How your choice of words creates new possibilities for connecting with your teenager.

Our language is a powerful influence on life. Our ancestors honoured their story-keepers, bards and orators. They repeated the epics…

May 24

How your choice of words creates new possibilities for connecting with your teenager.

May 24

Lori K Walters

Break the spell and bring your genuine adult self to family gatherings

What the heck happens to us on the way to our parents’ anniversary dinner? Is there an unseen tunnel where a spell changes us back into…

May 17

Break the spell and bring your genuine adult self to family gatherings

May 17

Lori K Walters

3 Practices to help Parents Stay Steady in a Storm of Teenage Emotions

On the west coast of Canada, we just experienced an historic “double bomb storm”. Twenty hours of 50 km/h winds, crashing waves, severe…

May 10

3 Practices to help Parents Stay Steady in a Storm of Teenage Emotions

May 10

Lori K Walters

Asking your teenager to Listen is asking them for Presence (and that’s a lot)

I haven’t met a single parent who don’t wish that their teenager would listen to them more attentively.

May 3

Asking your teenager to Listen is asking them for Presence (and that’s a lot)

May 3

Lori K Walters

3 Ways to Create Space for yourself in Tense Interactions with your Teen

You were just triggered. Your heart starts beating faster, your shoulders rise, you breath gets shallow, your vision goes fuzzy… And then…

Apr 26

3 Ways to Create Space for yourself in Tense Interactions with your Teen

Apr 26

Lori K Walters

Lori K Walters

Master Parenting Coach guiding anxious, overwhelmed parents to find peace in parenting their teen and young adult children.

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