Breaking Your Own Perfectionist Patterns While Parenting a Struggling Child, with Cathy Cioth
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When Perfectionism Meets Parenting Crisis For achievement-oriented parents, a child’s struggle with substance misuse can feel like a fundamental betrayal of everything they worked to build. The carefully constructed image of success—the career, the home, the perfect family—suddenly crumbles when a child goes, as one parent put it, “rogue.” Many parents describe feeling blindsided when