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Fun in the Empty Nest

September 2, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Parents ask me what I do for fun since they are gathering new ideas for themselves.
Here’s a short list:

 Read about chefs, meet them and eat at their restaurants (do you know who is in this photo I captured?)
 Start my day with black coffee and pruning my organic veggie and flower garden
 Read novels and newspapers
 Movies with chocolate covered pretzels for snack
 Out to dinner with hubby so we can catch up and laugh away from home
 Day trips on the road
 Music
 Yoga
 Zumba
 Cooking Time with friends, anywhere, anytime
 Piano
 Farmer’s market everywhere and anywhere, even when I travel for work
 Eat outside
 Photography
 My work is actually fun…don’t hate me.
 Writing
 Retreats
 Just started, literally just tried, watercolors…maybe that will be fun, maybe not.
 Collages
 Hiking
 Planning trips and hanging with the locals
 Connecting with people in my neighborhood at local café or walking
 Spontaneity
 Remembering my night dreams and talking with my friends about “What did that mean?”
 Decorating my home by moving things around every season, de-cluttering, adding new beauty if needed
 Organizing my office and home, relief and fun
 My cat Sophie
 Sunrise out my window
 Sunset walks on the hill
 Walking around a lake, early morning when the mist rises

Wow, just noticed the thought of my daughter came now and not earlier. I adore her. Time together is fun because we have so much in common.

Well off to a meeting. Add what you like to do so others can get inspired.
Lists keep growing and get deleted when you allow yourself to be open and not always listen to the voice in your head that has repeatedly steered you wrong, meaning, hasn’t allowed you to be and do.  Do you know that voice in your head very well?

Take good care,
Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188

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Changes and the Empty Nest

August 26, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Across the country, hugs goodbye, cheers and tears, are marking the roads. The number one relief parents share with me is, “Thank goodness I am not alone with my new feelings. I thought I was being over sensitive and selfish.”  Who doesn’t need support when walking a place you have never been before and you aren’t sure where you are heading?

There are different stages of empty nest.  Each person shifts and discovers in their style.  Keep that soft aloe Kleenex in arms reach.

Some leap and are thrilled with the lack of responsibilities.  Others grieve for both a short and long stretch of time for the role they loved and know has changed.

Singles have different longings and married wonder how their relationship will weather the lack of children at home.

Wives and husbands grieve differently, so their rhythm of let’s get going needs awareness.
Children out of their bedroom are excited and anxious about their new responsibilities and dreams. They honestly miss the anchor that home provides, even if they don’t express it.

School community is lost and therefore, connections and relationships for adults change.

One tip for this change is, let go of your perfection.  You will make mistakes.  You are sitting in a new room, vacant. Explore your expectations and then have a reality chat with yourself and others who understand this transition.

Celebrate all you are and have given.

You leap into what’s next and the challenges. You forget to celebrate you.  You did it.  You helped your child enter a dream on their wish list, as well as, a dream you probably had for them.

I like writing a letter to myself and then reading it out loud.  No one is in the room when I read it… a little awkward to praise myself out loud.” What I appreciate about being a parent is that I…” Hope you make the short time to really sit and acknowledge yourself.  Gift yourself in some way that nurtures you.  One mom shared she didn’t pick up the phone for a day unless Caller ID showed a true need, like her kids.

You will find your new way of meaning and joy. You will learn how to build an adult relationship with your children.  For today, be who you are and meet yourself right there without the critic or pusher in the room.

List what you loved to do after school in high school.  What do you like to watch on TV?  What is your favorite movie? Where do you like to travel?  Who do you respect?  Who would you love to visit? Where would you like to mentor?  Where would you like to work for a day? 

There are clues for what’s next. Let yourself be on a gentle hunt.  I was surprised at the parts of me that emerged when my space and time opened: writer, photographer, media expert. I already had gardening, hiking, speaker, facilitator, entertainer, and travel in my boots.    I didn’t have my daughter in the next room. I for sure had my immobile and tearful days and days, at unexpected moments.  My partner was there for me and his experience was different than mine.

If you haven’t walked the empty nest, you really don’t get it.  Then there is the phrase, empty nest, which is trivial, but we don’t have a new one, yet.  What would you name it?

I am so happy in my new role as mother and in my new life with such freedom that I didn’t even know I longed for.  How could I have been so devoted to being a role model and parent if I wanted to fly away so often?

Thank goodness I didn’t have the longing then.  I loved my career, not every day, but it was a great match for me.  I got burned out, frustrated, hurt, confused and joyful with parenting.  Great teacher for me, being a parent!  I am still learning in this new adult relationship with her and with my four nephews.

I am passionate about helping parents through this major transition because I live it and have been fortunate to learn so much from the thousands of parents across the country who wonder what’s it all about, this emptiness?

Take good care,
Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188, Los Angeles, CA
natalie@emptynestsupport.com

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Empty Nest, the Gift and the Curse

August 22, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Melissa hugged her daughter at the college dorm, got in the rental car, and wept all the way to the airport. The tears surprised her.

When you go through even an expected change, the reality settles in your heart when you wave goodbye.

Parents know the relationship they had will be different.  They aren’t sure what their role will be and that is unsettling.

For a while you might not have been the go to person or the number one with your children . They might have been your number one, which doesn’t imply you didn’t have “a life.”

No guilt or judgment about your relationship.  You did the best you could at the time.  Truth is, most parents would drop what they were doing if their child needed them no matter what age or stage.

Grieving the role you lived as parent is unique, based on your relationship with yourself and your child.  All parents feel the shift of this milestone.  Comparing yourself to how your friends or others are doing in this transition of life doesn’t honor who you are right now.

There  are many moments you are relieved at not addressing your child’s needs or schedule, but that has nothing to do with love, deep love.

When you love someone and can’t have time with them, you miss them.

Empty nest is a time of honoring all you gave. Reminiscing what you love about parenting and what you won’t miss.

You could write a letter to yourself , ” I appreciate the way I…   I honestly won’t miss the way I had to….”  You will find your words.  Fifteen minutes of writing is healing.

Feelings are vulnerable and can be unavailable. Thoughts come more naturally, spinning us with pictures we make in our head, or leaping ahead to the “what ifs”…  Comfort comes in a smorgasbord. Get to know yourself day by day. Leave the judgment.  With every thought and feeling there is a gift and curse while walking changes.  Maybe you can practice holding both,” the gift of my spinning with thoughts is… the curse of it is….”  Empty nest gives permission to know yourself in new ways. Your two constant friends are compassion and curiosity.

Even if you have gone through this before, when the last child leaves, you weep.
Career, married, single, all weep when the house emptiness of your child and their friends.
Community is lost.
School days are over.
You long for new meaning and connections.
You want your child to call.

I know, as an empty nest mom, that life does get happy and fun.  Parents across the country have shared their journey with me and I am honored to hold their stories. Change doesn’t travel in a straight line. You don’t, “Get it,” and then life is wonderful.

You feel your feelings whenever and wherever they pop up.

Some parents take time to be. Some leap into action. 

The biggest challenge I hear is , “What do I want to do that will be fulfilling, how do I grow a new relationship with my kids that respects me and respects them, and I’m not sure I am that into my partner anymore, which scares me.”

Change means you are in the unknown. You have never been at this stage of life before. There will be people who say, “Get over it. Your child isn’t gone forever. Get a life. People have it worse than you do.”  Well, I am sure you have read or heard the comments.  You be true to you.

Make friends with not knowing the answers, yet.  That could sound and feel like, ” I don’t know what I want to do with my free time and I do know I can get help.  I’m frustrated today, but that won’t last forever.  I am so sad, but who wouldn’t be when you miss someone you love?”

 You have heard the lists of what people added to their life:
 Travel
 Volunteer
 Visiting people they didn’t have time to see before
 Hobbies
 New careers
 Mentoring
 Learning a new language
 Working part time
 Piano lessons
 Organic gardening
 Book groups
 Dating
 Dancing
 Cooking classes
 Golf
 Tennis
 Swimming
 Yoga
 Meditation
 Prayer
 Walking
 Water colors

What you might not have heard is you have done enough and you do enough. Trial and error for the next spark.  Begin and leave.  Adults forget they get to go somewhere and leave for whatever reason comes up for them. Yes, give it a try and at the same time , honor when the place, activity , or people aren’t a match for you at this time.  Keep going.  Keep going.  I say that louder because our mind tends to trick us into the voice of, “I will never find something or someone.  I will always be alone or left out of the fun of life.” 

Find support. Ask for help. You would be surprised how many people wish they had called one friend or someone in the community who would hear them right where they are today.

If you don’t have someone, find websites where there is a community so you don’t feel alone. Friendships end. Relationships end. Career changes.  Begin some connection somewhere which could be at a bookstore, museum, art opening, café, religious setting, walking, etc. when you are ready. 

If you aren’t ready, check in with yourself and ask, “Do I need to get out anyhow, or do I need to be for today?” 

There are so many stories I could share. So here is one.

A mother didn’t want to commit here time to anything, yet.  She did want something that made her feel needed and engaged.

Cooking worked.  She would surprise a neighbor with comfort food, one dish. Once she called me and told me she didn’t really know the neighbor well, except for an occasional wave or hello.

The fresh fruit with banana bread turned out to be a way to feel more connected in her neighborhood and still have her free time.

No she didn’t want to start a business or do this scheduled.  She cooked and gave when she felt like it.

Wishing you time for being good to yourself and a building of inner trust that you will feel happiness and meaning.

Take good care,
Natalie
natalie@emptynestsupport.com
800-446-3310 or 818-763-0188 Los Angeles CA

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Support Groups

August 2, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Back to school is not only new beginnings for parents and students, but for anyone who feels the end of playful summer and the hope for more meaning, connection, and creativity in the Fall.

Questions about relationships, finances, work, parenting, illness, care-taking, re-locating, wellness, and fun, rise up.

I just want to let you know we are forming new support groups for all transitions, whether that is empty nest, re-invention, divorce, loss, illness, retirement, marriage, etc.  Transitions include celebrations. What you might not know is, even joy, shakes your bones because you have not been in that space before.

In my happy years of speaking with thousands of people across the country about transitions, the number one question I am asked is, AM I NORMAL?

Surprise in exploring your feelings and options is you only ask yourself one time, WHAT’S NEXT FOR ME?  Research shows, five times asking that question, WHAT’S NEXT FOR ME, integrates and allows you to deepen to different parts of yourself that carry wisdom.

Parts of you had to go dormant.  During a transition, you are invited to meet new selves. What part needs attention?  What needs a shift of perception?  What needs a goodbye? What are your gifts and challenges? What is your most comfortable emotion?  What compliments have people said to you over the years?

When people gather with curiosity and compassion, seated with the intention to openness, as well as, focus, change appears.

Call for more information about support groups or email:
natalie@emptynestsupport.com
Toll free, 800-446-3310 Los Angeles, CA Pacific time.

I reinvented my career. When you read my list on my website of life transitions, you will relate to why I am passionate about support for changing times. I know the value of being heard, supported, and met right where you are. One tool, can lift you because it is something you never thought of before. One new friend, can hold your hand as you step up or weep.

Looking forward to connecting with you,

Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
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Happiness

July 29, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

I think we don’t feel it or view it enough. Parents, Boomers, Students, Divorced and Married, call me asking, “How do I know what I want to do next?”  Under the opening question is their doubt, disappointments, exhaustion, and lack of support.  You can relate to those moments. Who hasn’t been there?

I truly believe the practice of appreciation, daily, even hourly, on a blue day, can lift you.  It sounds too simple so we don’t do it.  Not enough sparks and whistles. Not an end to the long journey of NOT KNOWING YET.

Don’t you wish when you were in high school that someone taught a class called, “LIVING IN THE UNKNOWN?”  At least there would be a memory as an adult that unknowns aren’t monsters, mistakes, or something to fix.  Believe me, I don’t always like that seat, either, and yet, I do know, something of value comes from the emptiness. 

When you leap, your head is often making the choice. Poor heart isn’t getting any attention. For some they spin too long and the head and heart get foggy.  Try a walk. Let your body give some clues and relief. Ask yourself, FIVE TIMES, yes five, not one, like most of you do, “WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY?”

When a client of mine truly had the blues, after getting to know her, we discovered that a walk to her local park, hearing children, seeing them play, listening to mothers and dads laugh and discipline, lifted her spirits.  What might bring a moment of happiness to you? 

Get support. No one wants to figure out or sit alone with pain.  We endure too long.

Take good care,
Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188

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Transition – Where to Begin?

July 15, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

She couldn’t see around the corner since her divorce.  Love lost? Not exactly.  No regrets. Love no longer moving forward hand in hand.

Summer and the living doesn’t feel easy.  Financial shifts and singlehood aren’t carefree days when you are grieving the life you thought you would have and uncertain about love tomorrow.

1. Full on permission to weep.  Who wouldn’t when change unexpectedly lands in your bedroom? Buy the softest aloe Kleenex you can purchase.
2. Treat yourself as well as you would treat your friend going through divorce.
3. Ask for help.  One woman set up an email with her friend that simply said, “I LOVE YOU. GET OUTSIDE TODAY.” Support goes a long way.
4. Make a plan on your calendar to do something for yourself on the weekend.
What use to bring you joy?
5.  No spinning like a hamster. Jump off the wheel.  Sometimes in life you are in the mystery even though you want answers.
6. Practice present moment by feeling your feet on the floor and seeing what is right in front of you…the window, the object on the bookcase. 
7. Remind yourself this loss and pain won’t last forever. 
8. Take little steps forward for creativity that will lift your spirits.
Would that be a class, the arts, hiking group, bowling, city tours?
9. Say at bedtime what you appreciate about yourself. 
10. If you have trouble sleeping, buy a meditation tape for relaxation and healing.

Transitions are an invitation to go within and learn more about who you are, who you aren’t, and what new resources are needed at this stage of your life.

Take very good care with gentleness to self.
Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188

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Will You Accept This Rose?

July 11, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Leaders, parents, college grads, students, boomers, all in transition and
needing the impact of beauty around them for inspiration and stability.  

A rose in a vase,  a garden of rainbow chard, pillows, bowls, painting, photos, collage, musical instruments, poems, etc.  You think it doesn’t make a difference when you are changing. I know it has for me and my clients.

Will you accept making beauty around you? The photos are my recycled doors that sat for two years on the side on the house.  While walking my small garden with morning black coffee, the idea came to me.

PUT MY PHOTOS IN THE WINDOWS ON THE DOORS.  MAKE A GARDEN GALLERY.  I wanted immediate gratification.  Therefore, double stick tape, clean the windows, print my photos, move the doors to a focal point and tape them down. Stand back and enjoy the view…daily.

Truth is, I often move objects and furniture around as seasons change.
Lighten my life. Get more playful. Nest in.  I am forever tossing and donating when I make the time.  I like open space.

Summer brings up wanting to play and get out of town.  It brings up family memories, some still alive and some unseen now.  Beauty helps me feel great even when I am in the not knowing what is next or practicing patience.

Creativity leads me to something every time.  Could be a smile all day and that is good enough.  Could be I invite someone over to see my new creation or I email it.

I welcome you to email me your beauty that surrounds you.  Go gather, toss, create, and play.  I wonder where that will lead you?

Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188
On the web www.emptynestsupport.com

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Summer of Changes

July 1, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Transitions for adults and children bring frustration.  How does it show itself in your family?

Not sleeping. Irritability.  Yelling.  Immobile. Over eating.

A family shared with me they want a fun, happy summer, but the fears grip them.

Not enough money, too many people back in the house, relationship is all about problem solving and details, and yes, the not knowing how to handle the unknowns that come up.

1. Have a check in party where each says what is on their mind and the others truly listen.  Keep it brief.  Each person gets five minutes.  We use to do this with a talking stick.  The person holding the stick, talks.  You pass the stick around to the next person.  A timer is set.  Sounds silly.
Silly worked.
2. The person who has an idea speaks it after each one shares their five minute story.  A guy complained that he was tired of being the only one with the ideas.  He too wanted some help and ideas.   He forgot to tell them that.
3. You don’t have to have solutions.  The conversations make real connections. Trust builds. Caring emerges.
4. Ask for help, “What do you think we can do about….?”  You want to empower each other not blame.
5. Say your feelings hopefully when you haven’t stored them too long and therefore explode.  Remind yourself you don’t want to pin them into a corner.  You don’t need to be right. You need a happy household.
6. Stay focused on your needs.  If you wait for someone, you resent. You will get angry and hurt.  You will heal.  Differences bring curiosity and more knowing who you are and aren’t.
7.  Feelings are just feelings.  Vulnerability is part of being alive.

There are so many parts to you.  By the way, wanting to yell and yell at someone is also a part of you. 

Wanting to slam the door, say I quit, yes other parts of you.  Those parts just don’t have to be the all of you.

Those thoughts and feelings really do help you learn what isn’t negotiable and what you can live with today.

Wishing you the fun of summertime.
Natalie

Natalie Caine M.A.
 (800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188

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I Struggle Too With Transitions

June 27, 2011 | by Natalie Caine | No Comments

Parents, college grads, worker bees, boomers, married and single, all want the one, two, three directions so they don’t cry or stay in bed all day while not knowing WHAT’S NEXT.

Wanting and reality sit on the same bench.  Separate them. “I just want to know already.” “I am still in shock and need to be for now.”

You have been in the unknown before.  How did you get through those times? 

My clients tell me they don’t remember.  They do remember when we name situations and explore: heart break, moving, unfulfilling job, parenthood, divorce, blending families, illness, college, first real job, finances, re-invention, etc.
 
“I don’t want to do that.”  Those words matter.  No leads to Yes. Your NO teaches you who you are right now.  You can change your mind as you gather and get to know yourself today.

Paradox is that you are going for clarity.  When you dig your heals in or put your head in the sand, the no might block the yes.

Are you the type who does the same behavior over and over for fear of the unknown?  Well, you aren’t alone. Acknowledge that part of you and explore how it helps you and how it might limit you.  No critic is invited to this

exploration. 

Stay curious…maybe I do this because I need……..I spin the same over and over for fear of …….Some behaviors we live  can diminish and be ” less charged.”  Go for that curiosity first and not the KILL IT. What motivates you to begin again?  

Anna told me it is one simple thing,” I get bored and have to do something. Even if I drive in my car around the block to see what is sold or has new landscapes.  She said she has this little voice that says, “CAR NOW.”

Four practices:

1.  BE OPEN to all your thoughts.  “Maybe that person could help me.”  “I just need to do nothing today and quiet my spinning mind.”  “I don’t like that idea.”  “I just don’t know YET.”

2.  Practice discipline.  Make a list of your feelings and ideas.  Two columns  I feel so sick of being in this same place.  I guess I could ask for help.

3.   Make friends with the UNKNOWN.  “I have no idea what to do and that won’t last forever.”

4.  Patience.  Aren’t you sick of that word?  Well, that is because you de-value it.  Patience helps you have realistic expectations and not inflation.  Who wouldn’t be sad?  Who would have solid answers today when the news wasn’t expected?  Grieving is normal and unique for each. Kelly thought by now after all she had done and been through, that she would be further along. 

Expectation.  This is where you are today.  You get to say the frustration and then check out how it does serve you to not know yet where you are headed.  Keep going.  Not knowing doesn’t mean, stop forever.  It means you don’t know today. 

One more thing.  Another client discovered she was less patient because she was being seduced by TV.  She and I laughed when she got the ah-ha during our telephone consultation.  Those reality TV shows were messing with her reality verses fantasy.  Walk away from the remote.
 
 
Take good care,

Stay curious and compassionate.
You won’t be forgotten nor miss out on happiness.

Natalie

 
 
Natalie Caine M.A.
(800) 446-3310 or (818) 763-0188
 
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