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Christine Moriarty Field is an author, attorney, and speaker. After homeschooling her four children, life fell apart. Divorced after 33 years, she dealt with unimaginable challenges with her adult children, including drug addiction, estrangement, and mental health issues. Therapy, prayer and introspection led her to encourage moms facing similar challenges. She is a criminal defense attorney and a recently remarried pastor’s wife. Learn more HERE.

Latest Posts By Christine Field

5 months ago

From Doing Everything to Modeling Wisdom: The Empty Nest Evolution

There’s a moment in every mother’s journey when she realizes that the way she’s been showing up is no longer serving anyone – not her children, and certainly not herself…

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6 months ago

The Anxiety I Carried for Decades Finally Made Sense in My 60s: What My Body Knew Before My Brain Did

In my 60s, I finally understood why my body had been screaming at me for 30 years. The tightness in my chest wasn’t “just anxiety.” The knot in my stomach wasn’t “overthinking.” The exhaustion that followed every interaction with my adult child wasn’t “getting older…

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6 months ago

The Boundary Lesson That Finally Stuck in My 60s

Boundaries aren’t walls that keep love out. They’re bridges to the kind of relationships I actually want – built on respect instead of obligation, truth instead of resentment. For decades, I believed that being a good mother, a good daughter, a good woman meant saying yes…

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6 months ago

I Let My Daughter Sit in Jail – And Saved Our Relationship

They don’t prepare you for this part of parenting in any baby book. Nobody tells you that decades after you’ve stopped cutting grapes into quarters and checking for fevers, you might face the hardest parenting decision of your life. I was in my 60s when my phone rang…

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6 months ago

The Detachment Wall: How to Let Go of Your Adult Children

Some of us moms have a problem with our attachment to our children, to the point where the bond can become unhealthy. Can we love our children but not let their choices or behavior make us crazy? Is some detachment actually a good idea?

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7 months ago

The Rescue-and-Regret Cycle: Why You Keep Getting Pulled Back In

You promised yourself it wouldn’t happen again. You’d stop answering those late-night calls. You’d quit sending money you don’t have. You’d stop fixing problems that aren’t yours to fix. But then, the voice on the other end trembles – your adult child’s, or maybe your ex’s…

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7 months ago

The Guilt Trap: How to Stop Feeling Responsible for Your Adult Children’s Choices

For years, you were the one who made everything better. You found the missing shoes, calmed the tantrums, juggled the bills, and made sure everyone had what they needed. You were the glue. The heartbeat. The fixer. But now your children are grown…

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7 months ago

From Empty to Full: Reclaiming Joy After Divorce, Estrangement, and the Empty Nest

The empty nest isn’t just about missing your kids. It’s about missing yourself. For decades, you knew exactly who you were – the one they needed, the one who kept things running, the one who showed up no matter how tired or invisible you felt. Your days were measured in loads…

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7 months ago

Purpose, Passion, and Pizzazz: The Three Keys to Thriving in Your Next Act

There’s a myth about growing older: that life shrinks with age. That our world gets smaller, our opportunities fewer, and our days predictable. But the truth? For women over 60, this season can be the most expansive, creative, and fulfilling of all. The kids are grown…

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8 months ago

How to Let Go of Responsibility for Your Adult Child’s Choices

By the time we reached our 50s and 60s, most of us thought the hardest years of parenting were behind us. The toddler tantrums, the teenage battles, the sleepless nights – we survived them all. We figured the hard part was done. We thought we had “earned” the rest. But then adulthood…

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