This trailer shows a taste of a recent podcast conversation with Pam Fields, estranged Mother. When you've been rejected and find yourself estranged from your child, there is always hope. You are not alone. God is Still Here for you, just as you are Still Here for your child. And once you begin to heal and grow, you can find Him and help your child through surrendered prayer. Power in parenting is still yours. Enjoy the whole episode with Pam fields in season one episode 8.

Active Parenting In Estrangement with Pam Fields

In this insightful interview, Host Marit Welker and Pam fields explore the power of intentional parenting, the importance of spiritual blessings, and how to positively influence future generations through prayer and presence.

Among other topics some of the highlights of the conversation include:

• The impact of blessings on future generations
• The importance of prayer in parenting
• How presence influences child development
• Strategies for intentional parenting

If your adult child has rejected you, you've come to the right source. With Christian insight, Biblical lessons, and experience as both the child who rejected her parent, and the mother who was cut off by her adult child, Marit Welker helps rejected mothers find solace, understanding, healing, and growth as they prepare to reunite and learn to thrive regardless of their child's choices. She is now happily reconciled in both directions and her mission is to help strengthen families and heal those who've fallen into this.

Go to:

MaritWelker.com to apply for the five-day challenge to begin the healing, reduce your pain, and find more peace.

Pam can be found on https://www.tendingfields.net/ where she showcases her podcast, offers a newsletter, has a facebook community, and shares parenting skills and her homeschooling journey for other moms.

Pam Fields hosts the Podcast: The Mom Next Door- Stories of Faith

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mom-next-door-stories-of-faith/id1519654537

https://open.spotify.com/show/6F0Ewi47ODfAr4HnCtrzvk

Thank you to Pam for appearing on our show and Sharing her stories of parenting and estrangement.

Produced by Marit Welker LLC. copyright 2026 MaritWelker.com

This is a trailer for this week's podcast. I distanced myself from a parent because of unrealistic expectations and a self-pitying attitude when I was a young adult. I went "low contact" as I blamed them for my pain. They made mistakes but didn't do anything terrible. I focused so much on the mistakes that i could see no good. Fortunately, we reconciled happily before my child rejecetd me. (We are also happily reconciled.) This isn't a good story, but it was mine. I share it in small part on this week's episode as we take apart mental illness, estrangement, family relationships, and How God and faith connect to these. Guest, Dr. Richard L. Blake, joins me, Host Marit Welker, as we open minds and hearts to healing, because when you gave your child everything, and they still cut you off, it feels like the worst betrayal. If you need someone to help you recover and reunite faster, who understands you and your child's pain and has made it to the other side of the problem with divine help through your Christian faith, then Go to MaritWelker.com and check ou the challenge.

interview with Dr. Richard Blake, Psychologist.

primary goal Information for Christian Moms rejected by their adult children

summary In this insightful interview, Dr. Richard L. Blake shares his extensive knowledge on family estrangement, mental health, breathwork, and the paradoxes in modern psychology. Discover practical strategies for healing, understanding mental health diagnoses, and living with purpose while waiting for an opportunity at reconciliation.

keywords family estrangement, mental health, psychology, healing, trauma, spiritual growth, mental illness, Christianity, misconceptions, resilience, faith

key topics

• Family estrangement and its drivers
• The role of alternative methods in emotional healing
• Misconceptions about mental health diagnoses and trauma
• Living with faith and purpose during estrangement

from Host Marit Welker

• "Trust God's plan for your child's journey."
• "Telling everyone they have trauma doesn't help."
• "Making everything easy can weaken resilience."

Chapters

00:00Introduction to Family Estrangement and Psychology

01:52The Role of Breathwork in Mental Health

04:28Overcoming Resentment and Trust Issues

06:01The Stigma of Mental Illness and Victimhood

07:11Navigating Mental Health Stigma in Parenting

12:04Misdiagnosis and the Impact of Labels

14:46Understanding Estrangement and Parental Relationships

20:18Transforming Identity Through Faith and Habits

22:30The Role of Awe in Healing

25:48Understanding Mental Health and Spirituality

30:39Generational Perspectives on Mental Health

33:53Finding Purpose Beyond Motherhood

39:42closing info about MaritWelker and learning how to move forward with Faith and Pscyhology.

Resources

• The_Breath_Geek Instagram
• Upcoming Family Estrangement Book by Dr. Richard Blake
• MaritWelker.com
• CoachingRejectedChristianMoms

After speaking with Johannes Wolfaardt, I came to realize that he's experienced nearly every abuse and difficulty. And in his darkest times. Jesus was still there protecting him. Johannes brings a message of hope and overcoming remarkable adversity. Listen to the full podcast season 1 episode 7 with Johannes and Marit Welker And if you need hope, you can turn to Jesus. And Then come to MaritWelker.com to work on rebuilding your identity after an adult child cuts you off.

Not every story of survival ends in survival. Some end in resurrection. Johannes C. Wolfaardt lives closer to the second category.

Johannes brings to this episode a stark story of the darkest sides of humanity and then triumph in the end through Jesus Christ. His estrangement is based on the worst kinds of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. Yet. He reunited with both parents in love and without blame.

He was two years old the day his mother walked away from the man that had nearly killed her. She saved her own life but his anger found a new target. Johannes was already being moved between foster placements and orphanages by age 7. He grew up without a sense of what love is. As an adult he reached for substances to dull the pain, lost his housing, and many times tried to end his life.

His mother came back into his story and he forgave her.

In 2021, a moment that almost killed him became the door he had been refusing to walk through. Flat on his back at the bottom, he met God for the first time in a way that was real, personal, and undeniable. He saw what he had not been able to see before. God had been walking beside him the entire time, even in the rooms where no one else stood.

His memoir Struggling Stains has been turned into a play and a documentary based on his life is now in development.

The message we are sharing today is that if your child is out of reach today, hear this carefully. Distance from you is not distance from God. The Father who walked with Johannes through every dark room is already standing in the rooms you cannot enter. Turn your child over to God. Keep turning him over. The work continues whether you can see it or not.

https://strugglingstains.co.za/shop/struggling-stains-the-online-book/ is where you go to buy the ebook, which is now available globally.

And for identity repair, go to MaritWelker.com. A five-day-challenge helps repair your identity as a daughter of God, increasing your strength, peace, and joy with meaningful progress.

We like to think of number lines as lines. But do we ever think of timelines as lines? If a ruler was used to represent a life, how long would the eternity before and the eternity after be? God's promises extend to His disciples. "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

- Revelation 21:4.

Will you reunite in this life or the next? (Hint: most do in this life. 21% may have to wait until mental illness, incorrect bias, or addiction leaves their bodies.) But I promise that God knows the end from the beginning! And he loves you and likes you so much!

The pain of having your kids leave home and go off to their own lives and menopause pales in comparison to the power of grief of losing a child to estrangement. As Christian Moms who are estranged, we can learn from Mickey's story of devastating grief transformed into hope. She shares her story and the lessons she learned along the way and how God was with her in this entire experience. She is not yet reconciled, but she is living in joy with purpose and blessing others with her mother-love and wisdom. To learn more, about Mickey go to https://crushingstrongholds.com/. And for Marit, the estranged Christian Moms coach, go to MaritWelker.com.