A life coaching perspective on one of the hardest phone calls a parent can get What do you actually say to a worried mother you’ve never met, whose adult child has just announced they’re packing up and moving to another continent? That’s not a hypothetical. That was my Wednesday. A friend connected me with a woman - let’s call her Mom - whose adult son, his partner, and their 7-year-old were in the middle of planning a move from the United States to the Netherlands. She’d bee