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Communicate Your Boundary With Calm, Confidence and Clarity, with Brenda Zane

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Communicate Your Boundary With Calm, Confidence and Clarity, with Brenda Zane
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Why Holding a Boundary Feels So Hard In this solo episode, Brenda Zane speaks directly to one of the most common struggles she sees among parents in the Hopestream community: the painful disconnect between setting a boundary and actually holding it when your child pushes back. After seven years of running The Stream and the

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Strategies For Parenting A Stuck Young Adult, with Kim Muench

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Strategies For Parenting A Stuck Young Adult, with Kim Muench
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How Kim Muench became a parent coach Kim’s path to parent coaching started when her oldest son, in his early 20s, developed a dependency on alcohol — very likely, she said, as a result of anxiety, depression, and diagnosed OCD. The family moved through detox, an IOP program, and eventually residential treatment. Along the way,

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Why Parents Must Change First When a Child Is Struggling With Addiction, with Brook McKenzie

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Why Parents Must Change First When a Child Is Struggling With Addiction, with Brook McKenzie
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Brook McKenzie’s personal story of addiction and recovery Brook McKenzie’s journey into addiction began around age 13 or 14. By 15 he needed treatment, and he went through three adolescent treatment programs between 15 and 17. His brother took a very different path — college, career, marriage — while Brook’s life looked nothing like that

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His Mom’s Hard Boundary Drove His Recovery, with Darren Hobbs

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His Mom’s Hard Boundary Drove His Recovery, with Darren Hobbs
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Episode 341 ABOUT THE EPISODE: You‘ve probably watched your child make a decision so obviously terrible you could not understand how it made sense to them. Darren Hobbs can tell you exactly how it looked, because he made that decision. He had done treatment. He had a sponsor, a home group, a year chip. Then

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What Are Boundaries and Why Parents of Struggling Teens Need Them

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What Are Boundaries and Why Parents of Struggling Teens Need Them
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Why parents struggle with boundaries Before she understood what boundaries were, Brenda described feeling invisible — like a doormat — with rules that nobody followed and no way to enforce anything. ‘I felt like I was invisible, like I was a doormat, like none of my rules were being followed,’ she shared. That frustration didn’t

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Anger for Parents of Struggling Teens: How to Recognize It, Name It, and Handle It

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Anger for Parents of Struggling Teens: How to Recognize It, Name It, and Handle It
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Episode 335 ABOUT THE EPISODE: There’s an emotion most of us are carrying that we don’t talk about, because we’re pretty sure we’re not allowed to feel it. Anger. Anger at where our kid’s choices have led our family. Anger at what they’re doing to themselves. And underneath it, a heavy layer of guilt for

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CRAFT Method for Families: Does It Work? A Real Parent Coaching Session

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CRAFT Method for Families: Does It Work? A Real Parent Coaching Session
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When your child struggles with substance use, it’s natural to wonder if the strategies you’re using are actually working. In this raw and honest coaching session, Marie – a school psychologist and mother of a 19-year-old son – shares her experience implementing CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) tools while navigating her son’s journey through

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Does Tough Love Work for Addiction? What Parents Need to Know

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Does Tough Love Work for Addiction? What Parents Need to Know
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When your teen or young adult is struggling with substance misuse, well-meaning friends and family often suggest ‘tough love.’ But what does that actually mean, and does it work? What Tough Love Really Means The concept of tough love gets complicated when you’re parenting a child through addiction. As one expert noted: ‘There is no

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Fostering Independence With Boundaries and Discomfort, with Nicole Runyon, LMSW

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Fostering Independence With Boundaries and Discomfort, with Nicole Runyon, LMSW
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As parents, we often struggle with when to step in and when to step back. The challenge intensifies when our children face difficulties with substances, mental health, or simply navigating adolescence in today’s technology-saturated world. Understanding What Children Really Need Child development encompasses far more than just emotional or psychological growth. Children need development across

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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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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
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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