Flying Lessons: Empty Nesting for Single Boy Moms - Softcover

Johnson, Lauren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732743630 ISBN 13: 9781732743632

Publisher: Author Joy, LLC, 2026

Synopsis

Create Your New Normal

Flying Lessons: Empty Nesting for Single Boy Moms
A compassionate, practical guide that turns the pain of separation into a season of possibility.

Combining real-life stories, science-backed hormone guidance, and emotional insight, Flying Lessons helps you preserve and deepen your mother-son bond while reigniting your why for the next chapter.

What this book gives you

• Sustained mother-son connection. Clear communication tools to avoid common pitfalls and keep closeness as your son becomes independent.
• Emotional resilience. Mindset rituals and short daily practices that move you from grief and loss to curiosity and celebration.
• Hormone harmony for midlife. Accessible, evidence-informed guidance to stabilize mood, energy, and sleep during major life transitions.
• Parenting closure. Deliberate strategies to complete your son’s childhood so you can step into your future without lingering “what ifs.”
• Reinvention pathways. Practical next steps for single motherhood renewal.

Why this book works

Lauren Johnson brings 35 years of writing and editing expertise, coaching experience, and wry, human storytelling to this guide to personal reclamation. Flying Lessons is tender and tactical, offering short practices you can use today and deeper work for lasting transformation. This book is a map for the single mom who wants to take confident next steps while keeping her relationship with her son intact.

Begin your flight toward freedom—your new normal awaits.

About this title

About the Author

Lauren Johnson is a magazine writer, editor, and creative coach who has spent more than thirty years helping business owners and authors tell their stories with honesty and heart. As a single mom to a son who grew into a self-reliant young man, she understands the mix of pride, loss, and reinvention that comes with an empty nest. Her work blends real life experience with practical guidance, offering single boy moms a compassionate path through one of life's biggest transitions. Through her editing and coaching practice, Author Joy LLC, she supports writers in bringing their best books forward. A two-time Transformational Author Experience Award winner, she now lives in the Black Hills, where she writes for South Dakota publications and hosts personalized author retreats.

Edition details

• Publisher: Author Joy, LLC
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732743630
• ISBN 13: 9781732743632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 164