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What Parent Recovery Really Looks Like: One Mom’s Journey

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
What Parent Recovery Really Looks Like: One Mom's Journey
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Where Janice’s story began Janice didn’t have the typical teenage warning signs many parents describe. Her son’s struggles with substance use emerged during and after COVID, and the moment of clarity came when she found something she Googled and confirmed was crystal meth. She describes having two choices in that moment: feel sorry for herself,

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Why the ‘Codependent’ Label Doesn’t Fit, and What Actually Does

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Why the 'Codependent' Label Doesn't Fit, and What Actually Does
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If you have ever been handed the word codependent and felt it didn’t quite fit, this episode of Hopestream will feel like a relief. Brenda Zane talks with Rawly Glass, LCSW, a therapist and parent educator who spent years turning the codependency label over in his hands before setting it down and looking for something

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Parenting with Confidence And Clarity Through Crisis, with Beth Hillman

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Parenting with Confidence And Clarity Through Crisis, with Beth Hillman
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When your teen is struggling with substance use, it’s easy to feel completely consumed by their choices and behaviors. You monitor, question, check their room, track their location – all while feeling like you’re losing ground every day. Parent coach Beth Hillman understands this pattern deeply, both from her professional work and her personal experience

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Breaking Your Own Perfectionist Patterns While Parenting a Struggling Child, with Cathy Cioth

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Breaking Your Own Perfectionist Patterns While Parenting a Struggling Child, with Cathy Cioth
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When Perfectionism Meets Parenting Crisis For achievement-oriented parents, a child’s struggle with substance misuse can feel like a fundamental betrayal of everything they worked to build. The carefully constructed image of success—the career, the home, the perfect family—suddenly crumbles when a child goes, as one parent put it, “rogue.” Many parents describe feeling blindsided when

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Navigating Addiction With Your Child: You Are Going To Be OK, with Brenda Zane

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Navigating Addiction With Your Child: You Are Going To Be OK, with Brenda Zane
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When you’re in the depths of parenting a child through addiction, the future can feel impossibly uncertain. But here’s what you need to hear first: you are going to be okay. This isn’t empty reassurance—it’s a promise from someone who has walked this path and emerged on the other side. Inviting Your Emotions In The

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