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What Parents Need to Know About Trauma Informed and Responsive Transport and Interventions, with Heather Hayes

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What Parents Need to Know About Trauma Informed and Responsive Transport and Interventions, with Heather Hayes
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When parents discover their teen or young adult is struggling with substance use, the path forward can feel overwhelming and confusing. Heather Hayes, a licensed counselor and board registered interventionist, brings a unique perspective to this challenge—she’s both a professional in the field and someone who got sober at age 21 after struggling with addiction

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What Parents Need To Know About Substance Use and Trauma; What It Is And Isn’t, And Why We Can’t Ignore It, With Steve Sawyer

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What Parents Need To Know About Substance Use and Trauma; What It Is And Isn’t, And Why We Can’t Ignore It, With Steve Sawyer
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When parents discover their teen is misusing substances, they often focus solely on the drugs or alcohol. But understanding the underlying trauma and nervous system dysregulation can change everything about how we approach our struggling children. What Trauma Really Means for Adolescents Steve Sawyer, a licensed psychotherapist and brainspotting trainer, offers a definition of trauma

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A 2021 Reality Report From Inside The Walls Of Teen Mental Health And Substance Use Treatment: Are The Kids Ok? With Derek Bowles, Crossroads Academy

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A 2021 Reality Report From Inside The Walls Of Teen Mental Health And Substance Use Treatment: Are The Kids Ok? With Derek Bowles, Crossroads Academy
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After fourteen years of working with thousands of young men and their families, Derek Bowles has witnessed the evolution of teen substance use and mental health treatment firsthand. As co-founder and lead therapist at Crossroads Academy in Ogden, Utah, he offers a grounded perspective on what’s really happening with today’s teens and what parents need

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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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Your Child Isn’t The Patient: The Parent’s Role When A Teen Or Young Adult Is Misusing Drugs Or Alcohol, With Rebekah Tayebi

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Your Child Isn’t The Patient: The Parent’s Role When A Teen Or Young Adult Is Misusing Drugs Or Alcohol, With Rebekah Tayebi
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When parents discover their child is misusing substances, the instinct is to focus entirely on fixing the child. But therapist and parent coach Rebekah Tayebi suggests a radically different approach: the real work begins with the parent. Why Your Child Isn’t Really the Problem Rebekah explains that families typically arrive at her door wanting her

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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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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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Uprooting Addiction, Healing From The Ground Up: A Film That Explores The Connection Between Trauma And Addiction, with Hope Payson and Daryl McGraw

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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addiction
Uprooting Addiction, Healing From The Ground Up: A Film That Explores The Connection Between Trauma And Addiction, with Hope Payson and Daryl McGraw
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When Hope Payson set out to create a documentary about addiction, she wasn’t thinking about drugs. She was thinking about pain. As a clinical social worker who had lost a brother to untreated trauma and addiction, she noticed something missing in public conversations about the opioid crisis: no one was asking why people wanted these

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City Girl Gone Mom’s Danielle Schaffer On A Brother Stolen by Addiction and Thriving Despite Generational Trauma

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City Girl Gone Mom’s Danielle Schaffer On A Brother Stolen by Addiction and Thriving Despite Generational Trauma
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Danielle Schaffer never imagined she’d be sharing her family’s story of addiction with nearly half a million followers, but her journey from a toxic childhood to creating the family life she always dreamed of is both heartbreaking and inspiring. Growing Up With Addict Parents Danielle’s childhood was marked by chaos and instability. ‘I grew up

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Common Addiction-Related Personality Traits & Disorders to Keep An Eye On with Brenda Zane

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Common Addiction-Related Personality Traits & Disorders to Keep An Eye On with Brenda Zane
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When Brenda Zane recorded this early episode of Hopestream, she was navigating a unique challenge: ‘One is that we are still in the Coronavirus madness. And it’s been very, very hard to get people to commit to booking a podcast episode.’ Rather than skip a week, she decided to share observations from her own experience

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