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10 Self-Coaching Questions Every Parent of a Child Struggling With Substances Should Ask

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10 Self-Coaching Questions Every Parent of a Child Struggling With Substances Should Ask
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There are moments in this journey when your coach isn’t available, your therapist can’t be reached, and the community is quiet. It is just you and whatever is unfolding in your relationship with your child, and you need a way through. In this solo episode, Brenda Zane distills a year of thinking into ten self-coaching

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How to Stop Normalizing Dangerous Behavior When Your Child Struggles With Addiction and Mental Health, with Dina Cannizzaro

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How to Stop Normalizing Dangerous Behavior When Your Child Struggles With Addiction and Mental Health, with Dina Cannizzaro
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When your child struggles with addiction and mental health challenges, one of the most insidious patterns that can develop is the gradual normalization of dangerous or abnormal behavior. What starts as one uncomfortable incident can slowly become your new normal—until you wake up one day and realize you’re living in a situation you never would

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Kids & Addiction: What 99 Parents & Pros Taught Me

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Kids & Addiction: What 99 Parents & Pros Taught Me
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Starting a podcast in January 2020 meant launching into an uncertain world. As Brenda Zane recalls, ‘I birthed the first episode of this podcast on January 8th, 2020. Of course, I had absolutely no idea that our world would effectively be shutting down 60 days later.’ Despite the chaos that followed, nearly 100 conversations with

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Counterintuitive Parenting if Your Child Struggles with Substances & Mental Health

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Counterintuitive Parenting if Your Child Struggles with Substances & Mental Health
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When your child struggles with substance use and mental health challenges, your instinct is to solve the problem, give advice, and maintain control. But some of the most effective parenting strategies are actually counterintuitive – they go against what feels natural in crisis mode. Ask Questions Instead of Giving Advice Most parents default to telling

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The Benefits of Acceptance (Not Accepting) When Your Child Struggles with Addiction & Mental Health

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The Benefits of Acceptance (Not Accepting) When Your Child Struggles with Addiction & Mental Health
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When your child struggles with substance misuse or mental health challenges, one of the most confusing concepts parents face is the difference between acceptance and accepting. Understanding this distinction can transform how you relate to your child and preserve your own wellbeing. The Critical Distinction Acceptance is about acknowledging reality as it exists today. It’s

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Taming Fear And Preserving Yourself When Your Child Struggles with Drugs and Alcohol

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Taming Fear And Preserving Yourself When Your Child Struggles with Drugs and Alcohol
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When a child struggles with drugs and alcohol, parents often find themselves in a painful paradox. You want to help, but you’re losing yourself in the process. Jobs suffer, marriages crack, health deteriorates—all while you’re desperately trying to save your child. But here’s what many parents don’t realize at first: you can’t actually save your

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Support Without Sacrificing: Parenting Strategies for Navigating Your Child’s Addiction Recovery

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Support Without Sacrificing: Parenting Strategies for Navigating Your Child’s Addiction Recovery
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When your child is struggling with addiction, the chaos can feel all-consuming. The angry outbursts, the unpredictable behavior, the constant worry—it’s easy to feel like you’re drowning in a storm you didn’t create and can’t control. But there’s a critical distinction to understand: while you may be surrounded by turmoil, you don’t have to let

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Coaching Episode: Drawing the Line with Grace – Confident Boundaries and Open Communication, with Jane

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Coaching Episode: Drawing the Line with Grace – Confident Boundaries and Open Communication, with Jane
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Parenting children who struggle with substance use is challenging enough. But what happens when you have two sons at completely different points in their journeys—one working hard in recovery, the other still using daily? This coaching session with Jane reveals the nuanced reality many parents face. Managing Two Sons at Different Stages Jane shares her

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The Difficult Realities of Using The Invitation To Change With A Child Struggling With Drugs or Alcohol, with Brenda Zane

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The Difficult Realities of Using The Invitation To Change With A Child Struggling With Drugs or Alcohol, with Brenda Zane
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If your child is struggling with drugs or alcohol, you’ve likely heard about the Invitation to Change approach—also called CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training). But what does it actually look like to use these tools in real life? The honest answer is: it’s not always easy, and it doesn’t work like magic. What the

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Coaching Episode: Dealing With Anger and Disappointment When You Learn Your Child Is Misusing Drugs and Alcohol, with Rose

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Coaching Episode: Dealing With Anger and Disappointment When You Learn Your Child Is Misusing Drugs and Alcohol, with Rose
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When Rose found her sixteen-year-old son high at two in the morning, her first response wasn’t anger. It was devastation and shock. By six in the morning, after confirming he didn’t need to go to the hospital and getting him into bed, she was already researching what to do next. The anger came later. Rose’s

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