Parenting doesn’t end when your child turns 18, but the challenges can look very different.
Kim Muench, a certified parenting coach and founder of Real Life Parent Guide, helps parents navigate the often-overlooked stage of emerging adulthood. After raising five children, Kim has spent years helping families facing mental health struggles, substance use and strained communication.
In this episode of Grieving Out Loud, Kim shares her personal experience navigating her son’s addiction and offers advice for parents trying to support an emerging adult without crossing the line into enabling.
Explore Kim’s website for more resources here.
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Kim Muench
Kim Muench is a certified parent coach, founder of Real Life Parent Guide, and author of Becoming Me While Raising You: A Mother’s Journey to Her Self. With nearly four decades of parenting experience and years of coaching families through substance use concerns, mental health challenges, and the exhausting line between helping and enabling, Kim specializes in helping parents of emerging adults replace fear and conflict with calm, confident leadership. She reaches a community of more than 500,000 followers across TikTok and Meta and is a regular parenting contributor on WFAA News in Dallas.
