Parenting Post-Wilderness: Parenting a Struggling Teen Before, During and After Treatment
Your guide to parenting a struggling teen or young-adult, whether they’re home, transitioning home, or presently in treatment.
Parents, say goodbye to exhausting confusion, overwhelm, panic and the unhelpful patterns that keep you and your family stuck. Learn how to develop healthy responses and set healthy boundaries with your teen instead of acting out of fear and anxiety.
Experience the relationship-changing power of focusing on your own behavior instead of futile attempts to control your teen.
Your guides to Parenting Post-wilderness are Beth Hillman, a life coach for parents of struggling teens and mom to a post-wilderness teen, and part-time co-host Seth Gottlieb, a wilderness therapy guide turned teen and young-adult recovery coach. Their unique combination of experience and training yields candid conversations chock full of practical, actionable tips and tools to smooth the challenges both parents and teens experience surrounding treatment.
Every week, you can expect conversations around:
- Parenting a struggling teen or young-adult;
- Setting healthy boundaries with your teen;
- Treatment options for your struggling teen or young adult;
- Bringing your kid home from treatment;
- Parenting skills to support your struggling child;
- Teen substance abuse, drug addiction, gaming addiction, suicidal ideation, or other teen mental health concerns;
- How to end power struggles and instead foster healthy communication with your teen or young-adult;
- And much more.
Listen in to discover how parents like you have learned to influence equanimity in the home and rebuild connections with the teens they love.
Connect with Beth on Instagram (@bethhillmancoaching) or find more information about working with Beth at www.bethhillmancoaching.com.
Parenting Post-Wilderness: Parenting a Struggling Teen Before, During and After Treatment
135. Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves About Our Struggling Teens & Young Adults
We all have an inner dialogue. But it's too easy to take the stories we tell ourselves, about our kids, our parenting, and what’s going to happen next, to start feeling like facts. In this episode, Seth and I explore how our narratives can quietly shape our reactions, expectations, and ultimately our relationships with our teens and young adults.
“We have to remember that almost everything we think is a narrative. … All narratives can change” - Beth Hillman
When a child returns home from treatment, it’s common for parents to fall into old mental scripts: I’ll have to clean for them. They won’t wake up on their own. If I don’t do X, they’ll never Y. These stories often stem from real past experiences, so it’s no wonder they feel true. But that doesn’t mean they are. Let's talk about how to recognize these narratives, examine whether they’re still serving your family, and explore how to shift them.
If you're feeling stuck in patterns or assumptions about your teen or young adult, this episode offers a compassionate and practical way to loosen their grip and make room for something new.
In this episode on challenging our inner dialogue as parents, we cover:
- The difference between narrative and fact, and how to tell them apart;
- Why parents often get stuck in old stories, even when growth is happening;
- The unconscious beliefs you may be carrying about what a good parent "should" do;
- What narratives your struggling child may be believing about themselves;
- A practical exercise for surfacing your limiting beliefs as a parent;
- The key question to regularly ask yourself;
- And more.
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