Ep 13: Finding the Courage for Major Life Transitions with Katerina Barron

Divorce, moving, new relationships, new jobs... we all face major life transitions, and they can be incredibly overwhelming. Vanessa’s coaching client and Coach-in-Training Katerina Barron knows this well, and shares her journey from having a challenging and tense home life with her husband to finding the courage and support needed to divorce him, to explore her queer identity, and to eventually introduce her new partner, Nicole, to her 3 children.

You will get a personal look at how Vanessa walks parents through tricky transitions and common challenges with their children with tenacity, vision, and heart. You’ll also hear Katerina reflect on the strategies and tools she used to build resilience in the family and find the “eye of the storm” in the midst of significant life changes. It’s a wild ride filled with profound lessons on having the courage and support to ask the hard questions, to find different strategies that work best for each child, and to bring that ‘bonus parent’ into children’s lives as seamlessly as possible.

Here are the topics we covered on Finding the Courage for Major Life Transitions.

• Katerina’s journey to finding the courage and support needed for her to ask the hard question, “What would our home look like if he [her husband] was not in it?” 
• The tools and strategies from the Family Foundations Immersion program that helped Katerina get out of survival mode and create stability.
• Learning the lesson that what works for one child does not work for all.
• Katerina’s experience exploring who she was outside of being a mom and embracing her queer identity.
• Tips for finding a parenting style that feels authentic, blending families, and adding a ‘bonus parent’ into children’s lives.

Hope you enjoyed this episode on Finding the Courage for Major Life Transitions with Katerina Barron and learned some valuable tips to implement in you life!

Discover more about our signature yearlong program for parents and caregivers, The Family Foundations Immersion, at https://bit.ly/RORImmersion.

Katerina Barron can be reached at katerinabarron@gmail.com or book a free Clarity Call for coaching at https://calendly.com/katerinakarrys/clarity-call and for trauma-informed tutoring at https://calendly.com/katerinakarrys/clarity-call-tutoring.

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Music by Jabari Martin instagram.com/iamstolenartifacts.