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
Latest Episodes
193. Is This ODD or Normal Teen Behavior? With Brittney King
Is your child pushing back, arguing over everything, ignoring rules, or seeming impossible to parent right now? It’s easy to wonder: Is this normal teen behavior… or something more serious like ODD?When conflict becomes the norm at home,...
192. When Your Teen Is Self-Harming: What Parents Need to Know With Courtney Deadman
When you find out your child is harming themselves, you’re thrown into a world you don’t understand.Fear hits first. Then confusion. Maybe even anger.Is this a cry for help? Is it manipulation? Is my child suicidal?And most of al...
191. The Boy Brain Explained: Why Your Teen Manipulates, Complains, and Plays the Victim
Your teen’s behavior might feel confusing, frustrating, or even manipulative… but when you understand the boy brain, it starts to make a lot more sense.In this episode, I sit down with Mark Spalding (LCSW) to unpack what’s really going o...
190. Dealing With the Negativity of Your Weekly Treatment Call
You wait all week for that call… and then it comes. But your child sounds miserable. They’re complaining about everything. The food, the people, the program. They tell you it’s not working. That they shouldn’t be there. Maybe they even promise ...
189. What Is in Your Control as a Parent? - The Circles of Control, Influence & Concern
You’re lying awake at night, running through every possible scenario. Should I step in? Should I say something? Should I let this go?When your teen is struggling, it can feel nearly impossible to know what’s actually yours to handle and ...
