Trading Control & Punishment for Respect & Emotional Intelligence, with Ann Coleman
After watching her brother's life cut short by substance use, Ann Coleman was intimately familiar with its dangers. So when her son - who already suffered from anxiety and depression - started using marijuana, hallucinogens and opiates, her trauma and instincts of fear and control kicked in hard. Looking back, Ann recognizes that at the time she believed her son was solely to blame for the unraveling of the relationship. Now, she knows better.
teasing apart the complexities of gender identity, neurodiversity, substance use and mental health in young people, with Sean Garcia
If there's a perfect storm of complexity and confusion for parents of adolescents and young adults it's the intersection of a mental health condition, neurodiversity, substance use and gender or sexual identity. It's overwhelming to know which aspect of these to address first, or do you address them all at once?
substance use, self-harm, anxiety, poor mental health: dangers of teens striving for perfection and achievement, with Stanford's Denise Pope, Ph.D.
To say that high school and college students today are under massive pressure to "succeed" would be an understatement and no one knows more about why that's true than Denise Pope, Ph.D., senior lecturer for Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the non-profit, Challenge Success.
golden nuggets from 2020: a wrap-up of wisdom, insights and emotion from 41 episodes with Brenda Zane
Welcome to a wrap of 2020! This episode features snippets from 11 guests who, over the course of 2020 shared their knowledge, wisdom and stories for us to learn from. It's a long one so grab a cup of something warm and cozy and listen in to these amazing golden nuggets from Hopestream's first season
when your sibling has substance use issues; finding sanity and practicing self-care, with Tina Jayes
I think one of the most important things is you have to talk about these things as much as you can, whether it's to a therapist, whether it's to each other. I mean, when you carry this stuff around, it just is a big heavy burden and you don't even know what it is. But if it was happening to my family now, I would hope to talk to the siblings and give them some information and give them coping tools because that would have been really helpful instead of acting like nothing was happening.
Beyond Addiction’s Carrie Wilkens: using science and kindness as motivation for change in your child's substance use
“If you expect your kid to come out of rehab and be sober for good, that's like asking your kid to play a Chopin etude and they've never played the piano. What's actually happening is your kid needs to take piano lessons with a beginning instructor. He's going to earn some learn some easy pieces and work really hard. He's probably going to learn some stuff wrong and he's kind of have to, like, relearn it. At some stage he might have to get a different teacher because that's, he outgrew that teacher. He's going to have to practice more things. He's going to have to find the music he likes to play, you know, where does he like to play it? Does he like to play by himself? Does it like to play? You know, like there's so much learning. We have so much compassion for the learning process in other areas, we don't have a ton of compassion for the learning process when it comes to behavior change around addiction and substance use problems.”
teens, addiction, residential care and natural highs, with Derek Bowles
Hello and welcome to today's episode of Hopestream. This is Brenda Zane and I am very excited for today's episode because I think it's going to help answer a lot of questions that parents have around treatment options for their teen and adolescent children who might be getting into trouble or, or might be abusing substances. When you are looking for help for a teen, it's extremely confusing. There's a ton of information. Google is, is full of data, but you're really scared and you don't know what to do at that time. So I think today's episode is going to be incredibly helpful with lots of information on that. And today's guest is the co founder and lead therapist at crossroads Academy to residential treatment center in Ogden, Utah. He has a master's in clinical social work from BYU and has been with Crossroads since it opened in 2007 and he and the staff at Crossroads are really near and dear to my heart because they had a significant impact on my son's recovery process. So I am very happy and grateful to introduce Derek Bowles.
the story behind the podcast: a teen's addiction, four rehabs, two overdoses and hope with Brenda Zane
We didn't know anybody who had gone through this and you know, we sat and said to each other, what do you do at this point? What do you do with a child who is 16 years old still under our legal care and is doing these terrible things? And so this is when, like many people, I turned to Google. And that is a scary thing because Google obviously has lots and lots of people on there who are advertising, who are looking for people who are in this very vulnerable position. And we were incredibly vulnerable at this point and looking for anything. So started Googling terms like “what to do with defiant teenager,” “what to do with drug using teenager,”- just all of the terms - we didn't even know how to put it into the search bar, what do you say?