Send Erica a text

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 before. You know how it ends.

Erica gets painfully honest about the day she kicked her son out of the house and what she got wrong in the process. She shares her friend Faye's gut-wrenching decision to drop her daughter and two grandkids at a women's shelter, and what Faye's daughter said about it years later that silenced the room.

You'll learn four signs that your help has crossed into enabling, why your child's entitled reaction when you say no tells you more than their request does, and what time-bound, role-building support actually looks like in real life, including the gas money conversation that almost ruined Erica's birthday.

Bailing them out feels like love. But it might be the very thing keeping them from the Savior who can actually change them from the inside out.

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Send Erica a text

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.
So you do nothing. And the distance just keeps growing.

Erica walks through three practical steps for standing in faith when your child has pulled away. She tackles the theology that either paralyzes moms or propels them forward, explains why your view of God in this season matters more than any parenting strategy, and challenges you to take one brave risk today: send the message you've been holding back.

You'll learn what to actually say when you reach out (and why keeping it short matters more than getting it perfect), how to prepare yourself emotionally whether they respond or not, and three specific things to say to a friend walking through this that actually help instead of making it worse.

This isn't about forcing a response. It's about planting a seed, trusting God's timing, and refusing to let fear write the final chapter of your relationship.

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Send Erica a text

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 carry it alone because unless someone's been there, they can't imagine it. And the grief doesn't follow a straight line. One day you're furious. The next you'd give anything for a hug. One minute you're judging their choices. The next you're ready to fight anyone else who does.

Erica names the silent grief of estrangement and why it's so disorienting. She unpacks why this loss is uniquely complicated: your child is still making choices that can rip the rug out from under your healing without warning. She challenges the secular psychology advice to just let them go, and explains why silence gets twisted into apathy faster than you think.

You'll walk away with one powerful exercise: writing the single thing you'd want your child to know if you only got one shot.

This grief doesn't have a name. But it does have a God who is close to the brokenhearted. And He hasn't stopped working.

Surviving Sorry by Kim Erickson: https://amzn.to/4aNhB7C

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Momentum Conference: https://a.ericawiggenhorn.com/vtsyykt