{"id":95434,"date":"2026-10-25T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95434"},"modified":"2026-10-25T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T00:58:58","slug":"do-you-have-empty-nest-syndrome-5-signs-and-expert-ways-to-cope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95434","title":{"rendered":"Do you have empty nest syndrome? 5 signs \u2013 and expert ways to cope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/22\/eca06839-8e3f-4b14-b5d9-fd8eb31a63c5_5cf08a90.jpg?itok=1CQ3JldZ&amp;v=1792652983\" \/><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">If you feel lost or overwhelmed now your children have left the nest, you are far from alone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Many parents experience empty nest syndrome at this time of the year.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">\u201cEmpty nest syndrome isn\u2019t a mental health condition, but a set of feelings or symptoms that parents might feel when all their <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">children have left home<\/span>,\u201d says Dr Elizabeth Wakeland, consultant, clinical and forensic psychologist at Cygnet Health Care in the UK. \u201cIt\u2019s a period of significant life change where parents are trying to figure out who they are and what their life looks like now their children are no longer in the home.\u201d<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Here are five signs of empty nest syndrome to look out for and advice about how to navigate this period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">1. Sense of grief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3371762\/do-you-have-empty-nest-syndrome-5-signs-and-expert-ways-cope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel lost or overwhelmed now your children have left the nest, you are far from alone. Many parents experience empty nest syndrome at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[708,22814,2731,7235,369,15248,2470],"class_list":["post-95434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-cope","tag-empty","tag-expert","tag-nest","tag-signs","tag-syndrome","tag-ways","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}