When your child pulls away, pushes back, or makes choices that break your heart, motherhood can feel like a weight of fear, guilt, and grief you carry alone. The silence at the dinner table. The text that never gets returned. The argument that erupts out of nowhere. These moments can quietly convince you that you've failed.
The Momentum Podcast is where host Erica Wiggenhorn meets moms in that painful space with honest conversation, practical tools, and biblical truth that actually holds weight in the hard moments. Drawing from her own raw experiences, current research, and her book Loving Your Wayward Child, Erica walks through the real challenges of parenting teens, young adults, and estranged children, from navigating volatile conversations to setting boundaries without severing connection.
This isn't a podcast that rushes past your pain with easy answers. It's one that helps you move closer to Jesus so He can move your family closer together, one faithful step at a time.
Send Erica a text You're not fighting. That might be the problem. You share a house, a calendar, and a bed, and somehow you've become roommates running a household instead of two people who actually see each other. The parenting stress did this. The late nights, the disagreements over what to do about your kid, the exhaustion that leaves nothing left for anyone else. But Erica has good news, and she means it: this is reversible. She walks through the weekly team meeting she and her husband bu...
2 Jun 2026
Renewal for You and Your Marriage
Send Erica a text You disagree about consequences. You disagree about money. You disagree about how much help is too much. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, you stopped feeling like teammates and started feeling like roommates who happen to share a kid. Maybe you're carrying it alone. Maybe you feel criticized. Too soft, too harsh, never quite right. And you're doing all of this in the same season your own body is staging a revolt. Erica gets honest about what parenting stress does to...
26 May 2026
How to Stop Bailing Them Out and Still Love Them Well
Send Erica a text You wrote the check again. You said yes again. And the whole time you were doing it, you knew. This isn't help anymore. This is the same crisis on a different Tuesday. You want to stop. You just don't know how to stop without it feeling like you've stopped loving them. Erica walks you through the exact framework she uses to help an adult child without enabling them: a Help-With-a-Plan agreement that's time-bound, role-building, and clear enough that no one has to guess where...
14 Apr 2026
Loving Without Enabling
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...
7 Apr 2026
How to Reach the Child Who Pulled Away
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, expla...
31 Mar 2026
When Your Child Pulls Away
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...
24 Mar 2026
How to Loosen Your Grip Without Losing Your Mind
Send Erica a text If you let them go to the mall, they might get kidnapped. If you let them drive to a friend's house, they might wrap the car around a tree. You can get to worst-case scenario in under three seconds, and your kid knows it. That's why they think every conversation about freedom is pointless before it starts. Erica walks through what happened when she realized her fear wasn't protecting her kids. It was pushing them away. She breaks down why hyper-control and connection will al...
17 Mar 2026
Afraid of What I Can’t Control
Send Erica a text You checked their location three times before lunch. You scrolled their social media from a fake account. You asked another mom to casually find out what's going on. And the whole time, you were telling your kid how important it is to be open and honest with you. You see the problem. Fear doesn't announce itself. It disguises itself as vigilance, as good parenting, as just being careful. But underneath, it's running the show — whispering worst-case scenarios at 2 a.m. and co...
10 Mar 2026
How to Stay in the Conversation Without Losing It
Send Erica a text Your kid finally tells you something real. Something vulnerable. And before you even realize it, you've explained why they're wrong, justified the other person, and offered three solutions they didn't ask for. Now they're shut down. Again. And you're replaying it at midnight wondering why they never talk to you anymore. Erica breaks down why silence isn't the peacekeeper you think it is — and why lectures only convince your teen that you don't trust them to think. Then she t...
10 Mar 2026
When Every Conversation Turns Into a Fight
Send Erica a text If every conversation with your teen ends in a slammed door or dead silence, you've probably told yourself the same thing: Tomorrow will be better. And then tomorrow isn't. You weren't trying to start a fight. You asked a simple question. And somehow you're standing in the hallway wondering how you became the person you swore you wouldn't be. Erica names the four reactions most moms default to when conflict takes over — isolate, fixate, manipulate, vacate — and why every one...
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