Life's Third Tri: Wisdom for Mystified Mothers Who Love Adult Children - Softcover

Melcher Smith Ph.D., Charlotte

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985129809

Publisher: LITT Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Establishing rich and rewarding relationships with adult sons, daughters, and their spouses frequently turns out to be surprisingly complicated and full of landmines. Ancient biblical wisdom, social science findings, and the personal application of coaching insights combine in Life’s Third Tri to give empty-nest moms hope for finishing well.

As a retired psychologist and family therapist, Dr. Charlotte Melcher Smith includes poignant stories from many perplexed moms. Common experiences with other loving mothers invite readers into the sisterhood of those seeking a Christian perspective during life’s challenging final season. Are you a perplexed mom craving answers to questions like the following:

• How can I overcome feelings of failure, establish boundaries, avoid turnoffs, heal wounds, tear down walls, and build friendships with my adult offspring?
• How can I achieve serenity when I’m baffled by my grown kids’ and grandkids’ attitudes and choices?
• Is it my fault if my adult child is making choices that don’t match the values I tried to teach? Have I failed as a mother?
• What’s next? What’s my purpose now and what new callings exist beyond motherhood?
• Where can I go for help to figure out how to lessen intergenerational tension and thrive in my later years?

Life’s Third Tri encourages baffled moms to reframe their dilemmas as obstacles similar to those they successfully surmounted during the third trimester of their pregnancies. In order to make the most of the empty-nest era, Dr. Charlotte guides heavy-hearted moms to achieve the following desirable outcomes:

• Transform into the best possible versions of themselves: caring, competent, contributing, connected, confident, and courageous while simultaneously embracing humility, forgiveness, and gratitude.
• Discover a path to love, peace, and joy as they age, despite deep concerns about grown kids and grandkids and heart-wrenching losses like widowhood, divorce, and health challenges.
• Improve communication, maximize fun, overcome roadblocks, build closer relationships, diminish intergenerational conflict and estrangements, and welcome prodigals home.
• Follow a blueprint for flourishing and finishing well by contemplating remarkable parallels between the third trimester of pregnancy and women’s current third trimester of life.
• Receive God’s commendation, “Well done,” when they complete the final chapter of their life stories here on earth.

About this title

About the Author

As a highly-lauded psychologist and marriage and family therapist for 31 years, Dr. Charlotte Melcher Smith has lived in the trenches with a multitude of hurting mystified mothers. She counseled and coached hundreds of women as Clinical Director of Focus on Relationships, Inc., in Lexington, Kentucky. Prior to becoming a professional therapist, Charlotte ministered on the staff of Campus Crusade/Cru for 19 years. She and her husband raised three beloved children. In 2015, Charlotte was widowed. She later met and married Tooger Smith.

Edition details

• Publisher: LITT Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798985129809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304