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How to Take Care of Yourself While Parenting a Child Through Addiction

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How to Take Care of Yourself While Parenting a Child Through Addiction
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When you’re parenting a child through substance misuse or addiction, the focus naturally turns to their recovery, their treatment, their next steps. But what about you? Therapist Maya Kruger, who works with mothers navigating these exact challenges, offers a refreshing and compassionate perspective: your healing doesn’t have to wait. Understanding Anxiety as a Process Addiction

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The Anxiety Factor: Untangling the Adolescent Anxiety And Substance Use Knot, with Jarell Myers. Ph.D.

Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
The Anxiety Factor: Untangling the Adolescent Anxiety And Substance Use Knot, with Jarell Myers. Ph.D.
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When a teen struggles with anxiety, substances can seem like an easy solution. Dr. Jarell Myers, Director of Adolescent Services at Center for Motivation and Change, explains why this connection is so powerful and what parents can do to help their children develop healthier coping mechanisms. Understanding the Anxiety-Substance Use Connection The relationship between anxiety

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Trading Control & Punishment for Respect & Emotional Intelligence, with Ann Coleman

Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Trading Control & Punishment for Respect & Emotional Intelligence, with Ann Coleman
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For parents dealing with a child’s substance misuse, anxiety, depression, or behavioral challenges, the instinct is often to focus on stopping the problematic behavior. But what if the key to helping your child lies not in controlling their actions, but in understanding what’s driving them? Ann Coleman’s story is one of transformation. As a mom,

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How Adventure Therapy Can Offer Young Adults Life-Long Tools for Mental Health & Resilience, with Andrew Taylor

Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
How Adventure Therapy Can Offer Young Adults Life-Long Tools for Mental Health & Resilience, with Andrew Taylor
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When young adults struggle with substance use, mental health challenges, or simply finding their way in the world, sometimes the best medicine isn’t found in a therapist’s office. Andrew Taylor, founder of Pure Life Adventure and Octagon Mentoring, has spent nearly two decades watching young people transform through adventure therapy in Costa Rica. What Adventure

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Building Emotionally Healthy Teens Through Boundaries, Letting Go and Creating a Safe Container with Krissy Pozatek, MSW

Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Building Emotionally Healthy Teens Through Boundaries, Letting Go and Creating a Safe Container with Krissy Pozatek, MSW
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When teens struggle with substance misuse or emotional challenges, parents often operate from an instinct to fix, rescue, and ensure happiness. But according to Krissy Pozatek, MSW, a parent coach with over 15 years in the adolescent treatment field, this approach may be exactly what prevents children from developing the emotional resilience they need. Why

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