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My Experience & Relationship With Stress, Trauma, Food, Pain and Healing; An Interview on The Work IN Podcast

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My Experience & Relationship With Stress, Trauma, Food, Pain and Healing; An Interview on The Work IN Podcast
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When your child struggles with substance misuse, the impact extends far beyond their own life. Parents often find themselves caught in a silent battle with their own bodies, experiencing physical manifestations of trauma and chronic stress that can be debilitating. Brenda Zane’s story illustrates this reality with painful clarity. Her son began showing troubling signs

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When Life Feels Unfair: Staying Away From Victim Mentality When Your Child is Misusing Drugs or Alcohol, with Brenda Zane

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When Life Feels Unfair: Staying Away From Victim Mentality When Your Child is Misusing Drugs or Alcohol, with Brenda Zane
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The Sacred Work of Parenting Through Substance Misuse Parenting a child who is misusing drugs or alcohol often feels isolating. As one parent described it, “I look at what I do as sacred work, I get to intersect with you, at the most raw, most real and sometimes the most painful parts of your life.”

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Parents Traumatized By Their Child’s Substance Use; Restoring Your Health Through Trauma Release Exercise with Ericka Thomas

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Parents Traumatized By Their Child’s Substance Use; Restoring Your Health Through Trauma Release Exercise with Ericka Thomas
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Parents of children struggling with substance use often don’t recognize the toll this experience takes on their own bodies. The chronic stress, hypervigilance, and fear create real physiological changes that can persist long after immediate crises pass. Ericka Thomas, a trauma informed yoga instructor and certified trauma release exercise provider, offers insight into how parents

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Insider Perspective, Insights and Harsh Realities Parents Need to Hear From a Therapeutic Educational Consultant with Jennifer Taylor

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Insider Perspective, Insights and Harsh Realities Parents Need to Hear From a Therapeutic Educational Consultant with Jennifer Taylor
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When a teenager is struggling with substance misuse or mental health challenges, parents often feel lost about where to turn and what level of help their child truly needs. Jennifer Taylor, founder of JET Ed Consulting and Board Chair of the Therapeutic Consulting Association, provides an insider’s perspective on therapeutic educational consulting and the hard

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How Can a Therapist Help Parents When Their Child is Misusing Drugs Or Alcohol? Every Question You Secretly Want To Ask, with Laura Richer, LMHCA CHt

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How Can a Therapist Help Parents When Their Child is Misusing Drugs Or Alcohol? Every Question You Secretly Want To Ask, with Laura Richer, LMHCA CHt
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When a child struggles with substance misuse, parents often focus all their energy on helping their child while neglecting their own mental health. But as licensed mental health counselor Laura Richer explains, parents are dealing with their own significant trauma that deserves professional support. Why Parents Need Their Own Therapy Laura emphasizes the reality that

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Four Counterintuitive Things To Do When You’re Overwhelmed By Your Child’s Substance Use or Emotional Challenges with Brenda Zane

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Four Counterintuitive Things To Do When You’re Overwhelmed By Your Child’s Substance Use or Emotional Challenges with Brenda Zane
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When your child is struggling with substance use or emotional challenges, the experience can feel devastating. Parents commonly report three intense feelings that dominate their daily lives: fear, complete overwhelm, and exhaustion — not just mild versions of these emotions, but crippling levels that impact every aspect of life. ‘It’s this kind of crazy panicked

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How To Help Your Other Kids Deal With Their Sibling’s Drug or Alcohol Use, with Nicole Kosanke, Ph.D. and Krissy Pozatek

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How To Help Your Other Kids Deal With Their Sibling’s Drug or Alcohol Use, with Nicole Kosanke, Ph.D. and Krissy Pozatek
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When substance use disrupts a family, parents often focus intensely on the child who’s struggling—and understandably so. But what about the other children in the home? They’re watching, worrying, and often confused about what’s happening to their sibling and their family. Dr. Nicole Kosanke, Director of Family Services with CMC and co-author of Beyond Addiction,

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Why Your Child’s Substance Use Makes Perfect Sense And Four Helpful Strategies When They’re Not Open To Change, with Brenda Zane

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Why Your Child’s Substance Use Makes Perfect Sense And Four Helpful Strategies When They’re Not Open To Change, with Brenda Zane
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When your child is using drugs or alcohol and won’t admit there’s a problem, it can feel like you’re screaming into the void. But understanding why your child uses substances in the first place can completely shift how you approach the situation—and potentially save their life. Why Substance Use Makes Sense to Your Child This

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The Hidden Goldmine of Help For Parents of Kids With Substance Use Disorder with The Partnership to End Addiction’s Denise Mariano

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The Hidden Goldmine of Help For Parents of Kids With Substance Use Disorder with The Partnership to End Addiction’s Denise Mariano
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When a parent discovers their child is struggling with substance use, the isolation can be overwhelming. Denise Mariano, director of family support and advocacy at the Partnership to End Addiction, knows this pain intimately. Her son reached out for help as a college freshman, and what followed were four years of begging for treatment with

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A Quick Way To Gain Control When Crisis Hits with Brenda Zane

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A Quick Way To Gain Control When Crisis Hits with Brenda Zane
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When you discover drugs in your child’s room, get a call from the police about shoplifting, or watch your teen stumble through the door clearly under the influence, every instinct screams at you to do something immediately. But that urgent feeling to react right now? It’s actually working against you. The truth is, crisis moments

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