Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health

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

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

What Are Boundaries and Why Parents Need Them, with Cathy Cioth

ABOUT THE EPISODE: This week's episode is a Summer Replay originally aired in 2023.  You have rules. You have said them out loud, more than once. And somehow your

Sending Your Struggling Kid To College, with Cathy Cioth

ABOUT THE EPISODE: This week's episode is a Summer Replay from 2025. There is a version of August that has been living in your head since they were small. The car

Substance Use Isn't the Whole Story, with Dr. Graham Husick

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Your kid has been to a program. Maybe two. Maybe four. Each one handed back a diagnosis list a little longer than the last, and none of it ever explai

Becoming Emotionally Sturdy When Your Child Struggles, with Cathy Cioth

ABOUT THE EPISODE: There is a version of a house where everyone moves quietly. You time your questions. You read the door slam before you read the room. You have gotten

The Guilt That Helps You and The Guilt That Just Hurts, with Brenda Zane

ABOUT THE EPISODE: You have probably rehearsed the apology. I'm sorry I didn't catch this sooner. I'm sorry I wasn't a better parent. I'm sorry

Anger: The Emotion You're Not Supposed To Feel But Definitely Do

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

THC-Induced Psychosis: What Parents Need to Know Now

ABOUT THE EPISODE: This episode is long overdue, and I know many of you have been waiting for it. Over the past two to three years, the conversations in our community ha

Practical Ways To Coach Yourself When Your Child Struggles With Alcohol or Drugs, With Cathy Cioth

You find the vape pen, or the pills, or the empty bottle at the bottom of the laundry basket. You take it, because that was the boundary. Within minutes your house goes f

Hard Conversations: Have Them Today, with Cathy Cioth

Trigger Warning: this episode discusses loss of a child due to substance use. Please decide if this is the right time to listen.  A few weeks before this episode was rec

After Treatment: What the First 90 Days Really Look Like, with Beth Hillman

When Beth Hillman's son came home from wilderness treatment, the first crisis didn’t come from him. It came from her. Standing in the driveway, anxious and spiraling

A Love Letter for Parenting Kids Through Addiction, with Brenda Zane

ABOUT THE EPISODE: There are days in this journey when the weight of it all becomes almost too much to carry. You are still showing up, still trying, still breathing thr

The Thing Your Kid Can’t Tell You When They’re Struggling, with Enzo Narciso

When my son Enzo was using fentanyl and Xanax and blowing up every structure I tried to build around him, I kept asking the wrong question. What I wasn’t asking was what

10 Self Coaching Questions for Parents of Kids Who Struggle With Mental Health and Substances, with Brenda Zane

ABOUT THE EPISODE: There are moments in this journey when your coach isn't available, your therapist can't be reached, and the community is quiet. It's ju

Letting Your Child Struggle and Choosing Love Over Fear, with Dr. Wes Robins

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Dr. Wes Robins sent me a text a few weeks ago, and I stopped what I was doing and read it twice. It was a piece he had written at his kitchen table wh

Connect Before You Correct: Breaking Generational Patterns, with Lacey Tezino

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Lacey Tezino grew up believing her biological mother was dead. That’s what her family told her in the ‘80s when she was adopted, and she carried that

Inside Your Kid's Mind: Hidden Pain Behind Substance Use, with Brad McLeod

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Brad was 17, sitting in a psych ward for the second time, when a stranger told him about a program in Tennessee. He said no. He ran from a rest stop o

Co-Dependency Isn’t What You Think, with Rawly Glass, LCSW

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Rawly Glass grew up in a home full of violence. At 16, he made a pact that he would figure out how to do things differently. He earned a master's

Stuck After Treatment: Real Options Parents Overlook, with Will White

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Will White has been doing this work since last century, and he means that literally. Licensed since 1989, he has worked in group homes, boarding schoo

Misreading Your Child's Substance Use: What Parents Get Wrong with Brenda Zane

ABOUT THE EPISODE: I have sat with hundreds of moms who came to me at completely different points in their child's substance use, and the gap between them has alway