Your Child Isn’t The Patient: The Parent's Role When A Teen Or Young Adult Is Misusing Drugs Or Alcohol, With Rebekah Tayebi

ABOUT THE EPISODE:
Rebekah Tayebi has been working with families in various therapeutic settings for 18 years. She has valuable insights for parents when they have a child who needs help with mental health issues or substance use. An important one is that your child isn't and shouldn't be singularly identified as the "patient" or client.

This episode provides you with considerations for 

• when it makes sense to seek outside help, 
• what parenting leadership really is and what it takes to have it,  
• discerning between mental health problems and typical teen behavior, 
• triggers parents might face, 
• why we tend to want to have someone "fix" our child, 
• the role of shame and blame as we work to help our kids, 
• my personal tangent/rant about ADHD and ADD diagnoses
• how empathy, honesty and neutrality are important parenting skills

And lots more. It's a candid, insightful conversation that will give you such a great perspective on how you, as a parent, have incredible influence and how your way of being is crucially important for your child's healing.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Rebekah Tayebi, Satya Family Coaching
• The Wanderlust Warrior

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