HeyJaredLiving While Loving Your Child Through Addiction
There’s nothing wrong with you for caring deeply about your child’s addiction.For five years Heather used tough love while waiting for her daughter to hit rock bottom. Her health deteriorated and her daughter's addiction escalated.
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EP 139 Rock Bottom Is Not a Plan: What Actually Helps Create Change (opens the original)
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Rock bottom is a high-risk gamble - not a reliable recovery plan. Families are often told that a person must experience enough pain and loss before they will become willing to change. But substance use disorder itself involves continuing to use despite serious negative consequences - so why would more consequences alone reliably create recovery? In this episode, Heather explores research suggesting that turning points are not simply caused by external losses. They happen through an internal conf
EP 138 Becoming The Safe Person Your Child Calls For Help With Kelly Krehbiel (opens the original)
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What happens when everything you've been told to do isn't working? For years, Kelly believed she had to be the strong parent who held firm boundaries, enforced consequences, and tried to control her son's substance use. The harder she tried, the more he retreated and hid. Everything changed when Kelly discovered CRAFT and began learning a science-based, compassionate approach to addiction. Instead of trying to control her son's choices, she learned how to change the way she responded, which tran
EP 137 After 30+ Treatment Attempts, She Never Stopped Believing Guest Sheree Stilwell (opens the original)
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What do you do when your child has been to treatment over 30 times and nothing seems to work? Many parents eventually lose hope because they're exhausted, terrified, and have been told that tough love is the only answer. In this episode of the Recovery Through Relationship series, Heather talks with Sheree Stillwell, whose son struggled with substance use disorder for more than twenty years. During that time he experienced homelessness, repeated treatment attempts, trauma, relapse, and years of
EP 136 A Mother & Son's Journey Back To Connection with Paula Browne Stumph - Recovery Through Relationship Series (opens the original)
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This episode is part of series - The Families We Don't Hear About: Recovery Through Relationship. Elevating the stories of families who chose connection over tough love. Paula Brown-Stumpf spent years feeling like nothing she was doing was working - and a phone call with her son ended in a fight that cut off their relationship entirely. What she did next is why you want to hear her story. Instead of waiting and hoping, Paula got to work. She found a therapist, started her own support group when
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