Parenting Your Child in Recovery

Mar 08 2025 148 ep. 11 mins
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Parenting Your Child in Recovery: A guide to steering your child towards life-saving change and the Path to lasting Recovery.

This Podcast teaches parenting perspectives and action steps to prevent, manage, and eliminate the pain of addiction for your child and your family. Learn from me and other experts how to set your family up for a successful and life-saving journey. Please go to 2nStarts.com for program information.

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Opportunity in Detrimental Circumstances for Families of Young Adults in Trouble

Mar 08 2025 14 mins  
Send us a text Opportunity in detrimental situations is a life-saving skill for the parents and mentors of young adults in trouble. In one minute, what seems like an inevitable disaster can lead to new opportunities and possibilities. In this podcast, we look at the "Wall" Attitude and Vision, which can turn a life around in the direst of conditions and create a life worth living.

Is Doing The Same as Being?: The Anatomy of a Transformation

Mar 02 2025 8 mins  
Send us a text Is a transformation just a matter of stringing together a new set of actions, or is it a complete change of one's self? As professional or volunteer helpers, we rely on suggesting a new set of actions when we look to help a young adult and their family create a new path. Does the mere implementation of these actions constitute an immediate change, or does the accumul

Are you afraid to "Want" for your troubled child?

Feb 15 2025 14 mins  
Send us a text Are you afraid to " Want " for your troubled child? What you want for your child can come from a limiting place or a place of abundance and increase. What is in your past in terms of what you deserve or what you can achieve that influences how you want for your child? Taking a look at your attitudes can accelerate the possibilities of your child's future. Parenting Y

Feelings of Rejection are Hurting Your Family

Feb 09 2025 11 mins  
Send us a text Rejection is a part of life, and learning to deal with it can make all the difference between success and failure. When feelings of rejection put your family's future at risk, it is time to confront those feelings and re-see, re-design, and re-commit to a better way of handling the rejection emotion and saving your young adult's life. Parenting Your Child in Recovery

R.A.C.E. This is an Emergency!

Feb 01 2025 13 mins  
Send us a text On today's podcast, I wanted to associate the fire prevention acronym R.A.C.E with the emergency we experience when someone we love, our young adult, is in trouble. Setting a clear path plan that is not about blame or guilt that sets the mindset and the tone for success is possible when we start the right way. Parenting Your Child in Recovery

Parenting Your Child in Recovery

Jan 12 2025 15 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to the "Parenting Your Child in Recovery" Podcast. Let's talk about Changing your families future and transforming your young adults life. Turning early sobriety into long-term sobriety requires more than "cheerleading." It should not include "preparing for relapse." It requires your direct involvement and a program that sends your young adult in a new direct

Willpower: A Waste of Good Energy

Dec 05 2024 9 mins  
Send us a text The act of using Willpower is weak. It is a defensive position that seeks to defend the indefensible. In this show, we will discuss four other ways you and your young adult can use your power in ways that aim to make an Essential Change that moves life forward. Parenting Your Child in Recovery

Introduction to " The Help Syndrome"

Nov 24 2024 15 mins  
Send us a text Every action and reaction to addiction or behavioral problems in our adults is a form of asking for help. Today, I want to talk about the phenomenon we call " The Help Syndrome." I see it as the delicate dance between the " ASK" for help and the relation between our answers and the actually heard answers. Parenting Your Child in Recovery

The Biggest Question in Recovery

Nov 21 2024 17 mins  
Send us a text In today's show, " The Biggest Question in Recovery," I wanted to talk about a recent post I sent to some of the face groups I have been privileged to be a member of. I raised the question, " I had an unexpected question asked by someone I care deeply about yesterday. " Why should I bother even trying to stop drinking and doing drugs ?". How would you answer that?" T

Commitment: First, Last, and Everything

Nov 16 2024 9 mins  
Send us a text Today, I want to discuss the very first order of business: Commitment. Without it as the first and primary focus, there can be no Recovery. Commitment is faith realized in three stages: Process, Follow through, and Outcome. Parenting Your Child in Recovery