Have you tried everything you can think of to help your child, but nothing has worked? It’s not because you’re a bad parent. It’s because most of the information about addiction is outdated, doesn't work, and often makes things worse. Heather went through the same thing with her own daughter’s addiction until she found a new approach. She teaches you a collaborative compassionate approach to support yourself, reduce conflict, encourage change in your child, and even repair your relationship. Learn how to set the tone for your family's healing.
https://heatherrosscoaching.com/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 9 hours 31 minutes
episode 11: Episode 11 Boundaries
When you have a child struggling with addiction understanding and implementing boundaries is life changing. Properly handled boundaries can transform your life and relationships...
episode 10: Episode 10 How To Create Authority Over Your Anxiety
Every parent experiences anxiety worrying about their kids, but parents who are watching a child go through addiction experience even more intense levels of anxiety and more instances of it.
Taking the time to understand it, learn how to process it, and reframe your thoughts about it gives you authority over it...
episode 9: Episode 9 The Science and Psychology of Addiction with Gill from The Sober Powered Podcast
First guest episode with Gill from The Sober Powered Podcast...
episode 8: Episode 8 Life is 50/50
Most of us have this idea that we should feel positive emotion all the time, or that we shouldn’t feel negative emotion.
We aren't supposed to be happy 100% of the time.
The tools I share are meant to help you keep that 50/50 balance because when you're dealing with a child's addiction it's easy to get stuck in the negative 50.
Negative emotions have a purpose.
Each one is bringing you an important message...
episode 7: Episode 7 The Difference between Discomfort and Suffering
Discomfort is necessary. Suffering is optional. In this episode, I tell you what turns discomfort into suffering so you can notice when you're doing it and shift back to discomfort. If you open up to what I'm saying and implement what you learn in this episode then you will be in charge of your peace of mind rather than depending in your child to change...
episode 6: Episode 6 Your Words Create Your Quality of Life
The way you think and talk about your child's addiction is very powerful. It shapes your experience of their addiction and either raises or lowers your quality of life. Today I share 4 steps you can take to change how you talk and think about your child's addiction and therefore change your future instead of recreating your painful past...
episode 5: Episode 5 Control - Why You Do it and How To Stop
When you try to control your child, you’re doing it to create relief from your emotional discomfort. It's one of those "solutions" that often leads to more emotional pain and discomfort.
Today I give you some empowering alternatives to trying to control your child and their addiction...
episode 4: Episode 4 Did you know you've got a super power to help you with your child's addiction?
The good news is you already possesses this super power, you just don't know how to put it to work for you yet.
In this episode I explain how it works and how to make it work for you instead of against you.
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episode 3: Episode 3 What to do When You're Paralyzed With Fear That Your Child Will Over Dose
How often do you send a text to your addicted child and breathe a sigh of relief because the text went through, or look on social media to see if they’ve been active, or do a drive by just so you can have a little peace of mind? That fear of all the things that can wrong can rule your life. You get stuck with horrible images and thoughts about them over dosing and no one being there to help them. You brain gets stuck looping through all the worst-case scenarios...
episode 2: Episode 2 How To Connect With Your Child That's Struggling With Addiction
How often do you intend to have a positive interaction with your child, keep it light and polite, just give them a little love, but instead it turns into disconnect, arguments, and you end up bewildered about where it went wrong?
I used to find myself in that position constantly. I would plan something fun with my daughter to make memories and connect with her and we would end up fighting, I would feel uptight, rushed & bitchy...