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Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addictionRecognizing Warrior Moms With Adult Kids In Addiction, with Cathy CiothEpisode 304
ABOUT THE EPISODE:
When your journey with a child's substance use stretches into its second decade, you enter what we loving call "warrior mom" (or parent) territory – a place where endurance meets wisdom, and self-preservation becomes an art form. Today's conversation with Hopestream co-founder, Cathy, honors these battle-tested parents who've been navigating their adult children's challenges for ten, fifteen, even twenty years or more.
This isn't an advice-filled episode - because more advice isn't what you need. It's a raw, honest dialogue between two mothers who know the unique terrain of loving a...
2025-12-1800 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthRecognizing Warrior Moms With Adult Kids In Addiction, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:When your journey with a child's substance use stretches into its second decade, you enter what we loving call "warrior mom" (or parent) territory – a place where endurance meets wisdom, and self-preservation becomes an art form. Today's conversation with Hopestream co-founder, Cathy, honors these battle-tested parents who've been navigating their adult children's challenges for ten, fifteen, even twenty years or more.This isn't an advice-filled episode - because more advice isn't what you need. It's a raw, honest dialogue between two mothers who know the unique terrain of loving a ch...
2025-12-1846 min
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addictionDon’t Get Distracted: Focus on The Right Things When Your Child Is Struggling with Substances, with Cathy CiothEpisode 301
ABOUT THE EPISODE:
There's a certain shift that occurs when you stop charging at your child's substance use and instead learn to back in quietly, treats in hand, like Rocky Kanaka (Sitting With Dogs) approaching a terrified shelter dog.
In this conversation with Cathy, you'll discover how this counterintuitive approach, born from watching a man give positive affirmations to traumatized pit bulls, might actually hold the key to reconnecting with your own frightened, defensive teenager. (you have to listen now, right?!)
Your child, barricaded behind substance use and sending desperate si...
2025-11-2700 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthDon’t Get Distracted: Focus on The Right Things When Your Child Is Struggling with Substances, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE: There's a certain shift that occurs when you stop charging at your child's substance use and instead learn to back in quietly, treats in hand, like Rocky Kanaka (Sitting With Dogs) approaching a terrified shelter dog. In this conversation with Cathy, you'll discover how this counterintuitive approach, born from watching a man give positive affirmations to traumatized pit bulls, might actually hold the key to reconnecting with your own frightened, defensive teenager. (you have to listen now, right?!)Your child, barricaded behind substance use and sending desperate signals th...
2025-11-2734 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThink Like A Negotiator When Your Child Misuses Substances, with Cathy Cioth ABOUT THE EPISODE: In this episode Cathy and I discuss unique skills from the business world that can be applied to our relationships - especially one with a struggling teen or young adult who is misusing substances and has mental health challenges. I share a surprising learning I picked up from reading a book about hostage negotiation (you may even be able to relate to that kind of situation) and we dig into why it’s important for parents not to take your child’s actions and behaviors too personally. We tie this all int...
2025-10-1621 min
Hopestream for parenting kids through drug use and addictionStop Taking It Personally – Use Negotiation and Sales Skills With Your Struggling Child, with Cathy CiothEpisode 295
ABOUT THE EPISODE:
In this episode Cathy and I discuss unique skills from the business world that can be applied to our relationships - especially one with a struggling teen or young adult who is misusing substances and has mental health challenges.
I share a surprising learning I picked up from reading a book about hostage negotiation (you may even be able to relate to that kind of situation) and we dig into why it’s important for parents not to take your child’s actions and behaviors too personally. We tie this al...
2025-10-1600 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThe Best Way To Not Say or Do The Wrong Thing, At The Wrong Time, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:We've all been there. A tense or heated conversation where something flies out of your mouth that you don't really mean, or you inflict your 'help' when it's not wanted or needed. You might, at times, find yourself solving a problem that has nothing to do with you, or you give well-intentioned advice to someone who will never, ever take it.Enter our favorite Hopestream tool...the Lip Clip. A metaphorical device that prevents you from jumping in when you should really stay back, and gives you a magical opportunity...
2025-09-1844 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthSending Your Struggling Kid Off To College?, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:It’s the season parents often dream of - their high school senior has successfully walked the stage and they’re now packing the family car to make the ceremonial drive to the four-year university their family goes to. They’ll do Parent Weekend, buy the sweatshirt and bumper sticker and wave their child off until they see them at Thanksgiving.But it doesn’t go like that for everyone, and it sometimes feels like a facade if your child is on their way to a four-year university when they may be b...
2025-08-2150 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthSix Parenting Tools You Need for Navigating A Child's Substance Issues, with Cathy CiothEPISODE DESCRIPTION:A fresh new, 'from-the-vault' episode that is as relevant today as it was in 2022!Navigating life with a young person who’s misusing substances and struggling with mental health can feel like a ride in a very stormy sea. Parents need to be well-equipped for the journey, but often aren’t sure what the mandatory, life-saving provisions are to bring along. In this episode, Cathy Cioth, Hopestream Community co-founder, joins me to share our top six recommended provisions for parents as you navigate the turbulence that comes with a chall...
2025-08-0733 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthOvercoming Parenting Doubt and Fear: Part Two, with Cathy CiothEPISODE DESCRIPTION:In part two of this two-part episode, Cathy and I dive deep into two more of those sneaky, often invisible struggles that so many of us experience when parenting through substance use and mental health challenges.PART TWO:In part two, we marvel at and empathize with you when it comes to the insane learning curve parents face when their child is experimenting with or addicted to substances and facing mental health issues. We faced it ourselves and proudly wear our honorary Real Life Research Ph.D...
2025-06-1935 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthOvercoming Parenting Doubt and Fear: Part One, with Cathy CiothEPISODE DESCRIPTION:Sometimes, the hardest parts of our journey are the feelings we can't quite put our finger on, when you can tell something feels off but can't really articulate exactly what's wrong. In this two-part episode, Cathy and I dive deep into four of those sneaky, often invisible struggles that so many of us experience when parenting through substance use and mental health challenges.PART ONE:In part one, we cover the kind of grief that doesn't get a funeral, the common response of hypervigilance and the exhaustion...
2025-06-1233 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthBreaking Your Own Perfectionist Patterns While Parenting a Struggling Child, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:We’re back with another episode of the ‘Cathy & Brenda Show’, and this week we tackle a topic we see recurring in our community and the parents we work with…achievement-oriented parenting. As two recovering perfectionists ourselves, Cathy and I both share examples of what it looks like to be achievement-focused when your child (or children) struggle with substances and mental health. We talk about the tendency some of us have to want everything on the outside to look a certain way, even when that’s doing damage to our kids, and how it can...
2025-05-1554 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthWhat Does Support Look Like When Your Child is in Recovery?, with Cathy CiothEPISODE DESCRIPTION:In this deeply personal episode, Cathy and I peel back the layers of what parent support looks like during your child's long-term recovery, sharing some intimate "what if" questions that continue to echo in our minds. Drawing from our own experiences with three kids in recovery, we explore the nuanced emotional landscape of supporting our kids, and ourselves, through the challenges of substance misuse and mental health issues.We answer questions like, "What's my role when when my child is 5+ years into recovery? "How do you...
2025-03-2741 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThree Things We Want You To Know If Your Child Struggles With Mental Health and Substance Misuse, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:Over the five years of doing this podcast and participating in hundreds of calls and groups in The Stream, our online community for moms, Cathy and I have seen patterns emerge and today we’re talking about a few of them. We’re sharing three things we see come up over and over which have a great impact on parents when they have a child or children who struggle with mental health and substance misuse. The good news is that there are simple (not easy) and practical ways you can modif...
2025-01-1652 min
Success is Subjective: Real People. Raw Stories. Embracing a Non-Linear Life!Special Parent Series: Episode 258 with Cathy CiothOn this episode of Success is Subjective, Joanna brings you another story from our special parent series where she interviews parents whose children have overcome various challenges. Today, Joanna speaks with Cathy Cioth. Cathy is the Co-Founder of Hopestream Community, a CRAFT-trained parent coach, and mother of two kids who struggled with substance misuse. She is the Community Director in The Stream and sits on the Board for Hopestream Community. Cathy shares the journey of her two children and how they ended up in the same wilderness therapy program, how she and her husband were determined to ask questions...
2024-11-0524 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthSix Ideas When You're Looking For The Escape Hatch While Parenting A Child Struggling With Drugs and Alcohol, with Brenda ZaneABOUT THE EPISODE:Upon returning from vacation, I started to notice a theme in our community and my friend groups - there are a lot of exhausted, brain-fried parents who are looking for an escape from the day-to-day strain of having a child who misuses or is addicted to substances. From spouse and partner relationships to our kids themselves, we sometimes need time to tap out and escape.This episode will give you six simple (not necessarily easy) things you can do when you’re looking for an escape hatch to help navigate th...
2024-07-2527 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthDo I Really Need A Community? Who is Hopestream for? All The Answers You Need, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:If you’re a loyal podcast listener, or just new to our space, you might be curious about what the Hopestream Community membership is all about, and if it would be helpful for you. Because we get questions about this all the time, Hopestream co-founder, Cathy Cioth and I decided to dedicate an episode to answering them. We cover questions like, is my kid bad enough (or too bad) for this community? What if my kid is already in treatment and I have great support there? What if I’m a men...
2024-06-2038 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthNavigating Your Child's Substance Misuse: Six Crucial Mindset Shifts for Intentional Parenting, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:Hopestream co-founder, Cathy Cioth, is back for another episode to discuss six critical mindset shifts we both believe parents need to consider when they have a child struggling with substance misuse. We share how these important pivots in our thinking impacted our families and why, even though both of us have kids in recovery, we still vigilantly adhere to them. And, as usual, we go on a tangent or two, so grab your dog, bike, walking shoes, or whatever you do when listening to podcasts and let’s jump in.
2024-02-1552 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThe Lifeboat Episode; Six Essential Provisions For Parenting Kids Through Drug Use or Addiction, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:Navigating life with a young person who’s misusing substances and struggling with mental health can feel like a ride in a very stormy sea. Parents need to be well equipped for the journey but often aren’t sure what the mandatory, life-saving provisions are to bring along. In this episode, Cathy Cioth, Hopestream Community co-founder, joins me to share our top six recommended provisions for parents. We identify the items we wish we’d had in our lifeboat when we started our expedition so you can be better prepared....
2023-11-0232 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthWhat Are Boundaries And Why Parents Need Them When Their Child Misuses Drugs or Alcohol, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:You might hear the term "boundaries" thrown around as you work to parent your child who's misusing drugs and alcohol - but what exactly are they, and why do you need them?Hopestream Community co-founder Cathy Cioth and I deep dive into this topic today because we see parents in our communities struggle with it constantly. We share:What boundaries are and are notWe divulge some of our own struggles with setting and holding boundariesWhat can happen if you don't have boundaries Why Cathy called herself the "marshmallow" wh...
2023-07-0644 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthBack Pocket Parenting; Getting Un-Enmeshed From A Child Who Misuses Drugs and Alcohol, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:Parents often don’t realize they’re deeply and unhealthfully embedded in their child’s life- especially when that child struggles with their relationship to substances. The official term for this dysfunction is called enmeshment, but since Cathy and I aren’t therapists, we liken it to back-pocket parenting.If you find yourself intertwined in your child’s life to the degree that they’re not doing age-appropriate things for themselves, or you don’t know where they end and you begin, this is your episode. We talk about what enmeshmen...
2023-05-1137 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThe Incredible Influence of Parents When Your Child Struggles with Substance Misuse or Addiction, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:A common feeling parents express when they have a child struggling with substance misuse or addiction is helplessness. It feels as though day-to-day events whiplash you around, and there's nothing you can do to help create stability or calm - let alone encourage your child to accept help. The good news is there are ways to wield great influence in your home, with your child who struggles, and in your relationships in general. In this candid conversation with my business partner Cathy, we talk about how parents can begin to take b...
2023-02-0238 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthHopestream Golden Nuggets of 2022ABOUT THE EPISODE:In this compilation of 12 impactful episodes, you'll hear from: Dr. Anna Lembke, Carrie Wilkens, Ph.D., Dina Cannizzaro, Dr. Brad Reedy, Cathy Cioth, Steve Sawyer, Dr. Gabor Maté, Mark LaPalme, Rebekah Mutch, Andy Goldstrom, Bill Guy and Anne Moss Rogers.It's that time of year! This episode has become an annual tradition here at Hopestream, where I open up the vault from 2022, reflect on the year, over 50 episodes, so many guests, and pluck out a few of the golden nuggets that were shared.It’s ridiculously hard because it f...
2022-12-291h 16
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthLetting Go of Expectations and Dealing with Grief When Your Child is Misusing Drugs or Alcohol, with Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:In this episode with my right-hand woman, business partner, and all-around inspiring mom Cathy Cioth, we dive into the harsh reality that life with a child who's experimenting with or actively addicted to substances doesn't look like the pictures we had in mind when they were little.As parents, we do a disservice to our kids when we intentionally or subconsciously layer expectations on them around who they should be, how they should be, what they should accomplish, and what we think they should want. We might project onto them things...
2022-12-0134 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthNine Things We Never Talk About (out loud) When Our Kids Misuse Drugs or Alcohol, With Cathy CiothABOUT THE EPISODE:There are some thoughts, questions, and situations we face as parents of kids who are misusing substances that make us question our parenting, our sanity and even our humanity. Because these tricky topics don't often make it into the conversation, we're tackling them today as a way to air issues you may be wrestling with - but doing it in a safe, private place.Cathy Cioth, my business partner and host of The Stream Community joins me as we talk about 9 complex topics including:Should I be drinking or using...
2022-09-081h 01
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthInsights, Wisdom And Coping Strategies For Parents Of Kids Struggling With Substance Use From A Mom Who's Been There, Twice, With Cathy Cioth, Director of The Stream CommunityABOUT THE EPISODE:How does a parent cope when you have not one, but two kids struggling with substance misuse and all the issues that surround it? This episode provides inspiration and hope if you're trying to navigate this experience with your child from a mom who watched her family implode when her 17 and 19-year-old kids simultaneously spiraled out of control with drugs and alcohol.Cathy Cioth has seen the world of adolescent and young adult substance use from all angles and shares openly in this conversation about her family's journey which included wilderness...
2022-06-1653 min