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Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthHow to Stop Normalizing Dangerous Behavior When Your Child Struggles With Addiction and Mental Health, with Dina CannizzaroEPISODE DESCRIPTION:If you've ever found yourself tiptoeing through your own home, rehearsing conversations to avoid triggering an explosion, or even putting a lock on your bedroom door for protection—you're not alone. Today's conversation with Dina Cannizzaro, Hopestream's Director of Education, confronts the uncomfortable reality so many parents face: how profoundly we normalize dangerous situations when our child struggles with substances.Dina brings battle-tested wisdom from parenting her son Parker through nine years of IV heroin use (now nine years sober) and coaching hundreds of families through similar chaos. She shares the ex...
2025-10-3056 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthYou Can Create Conditions For Change When Your Child Battles Addiction, with Dina CannizzaroABOUT THE EPISODE:It’s hard to come to terms with how little control we have over whether our kids choose recovery or remain in an unhealthy lifestyle. In this episode, you’ll get to hear from Dina Cannizzaro, a mom who has been through hell and back (more than once), but has channeled all that fear and anxiety into taking actionable steps toward relearning how to connect with her son and how to harness the surprising power of self-care. You’ll hear how far she and her son Parker have come now that he...
2025-08-2854 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthThe Benefits of Acceptance (Not Accepting) When Your Child Struggles with Addiction & Mental HealthABOUT THE EPISODE:At times it can be confusing for parents of teens and young adults who are misusing substances to tease apart the concept of acceptance vs. the act of accepting. In this solo episode, I help distinguish the two and give examples of why it’s so important to both accept this part of your life while at the same time keep yourself safe, healthy and sane through being clear on what you will and will not be accepting of. I dive into the complex paradox of balancing love and acceptance wit...
2025-06-0522 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
Purple Politics Nevada with Lucia StarbuckNevada lawmakers outline new education, health care, housing, and environmental billsThe 120-day biennial session kicks off on February 3. Two years ago, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo set a record with the number of bills he vetoed. He will again need to work with the Democratic-controlled legislature. With the session right around the corner, Purple Politics Nevada host Lucia Starbuck spoke to several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to understand their education, healthcare, housing, and environmental bills.Tune in to the first episode of Season 3 to hear Sen. Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro’s promise to continue raises for public school teachers; Sen. Minority Leader Robin Titus’ goals to i...
2025-01-2226 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthTurning Obstacles and Suffering into Successful Recovery, with Patrick BabcockABOUT THE EPISODE:After 14 treatment centers, 10 jails in six different states, and solitary confinement at Rikers Island prison, Patrick Babcock is lucky to be alive. His parents were barely adults themselves when he was born, dealing with their own alcoholism, physical abuse, and abandonment issues. Patrick’s own substance use began early, sneaking his father's Heinekens at age 7 and smoking marijuana with his friend's parents at age 10. He went from an Ivy League kindergarten to running "feral" in the streets of New York, attending the debaucherous Studio 54 at only 14 years old. Though he managed to...
2024-05-2351 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthWhat the Chinese Farmer Teaches Us About Parenting Kids Using Substances, with Dina CannizzaroABOUT THE EPISODE:In this episode, Stream advisor Dina Cannizzaro is back with me to discuss the profound lessons in the story of the Chinese farmer. The parable applies to everyone’s lives, but it is especially relevant for those going through difficult times, as many parents in the Hopestream Community are. Take it from two moms who have survived their child’s extreme substance misuse: you never know what good may come from tragedy and misfortune.Yes, we are acutely aware of how crazy that sounds to parents currently going through it. It certai...
2023-06-2938 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 HealthFour Strategies For Getting More of The Behavior You Want and Less of What You Don't When Your Teen or Young Adult Child Misuses Drugs or Alcohol, With Brenda ZaneABOUT THE EPISODE:Today I dive into a key component of encouraging more positive behavior through the use of consequences. You probably already know consequences can be confusing and hard to get right when your child is misusing substances and struggles with mental health issues. They're sometimes hard to be consistent with, and often backfire.Chapter 11 in the book Beyond Addiction is the base for the information shared in this episode and outlines four ways you can go about using consequences with your son or daughter - however, only three are recommended. It...
2022-11-1726 min
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthHow Parents Can Create Conditions For Change Using Compassion and Self-Care When A Child is Misusing Drugs or Alcohol, With Dina CannizzaroABOUT THE EPISODE:It’s tough to come to terms with how little control we have over whether our kids choose substances or healing and recovery. In this episode, you’ll get to hear from Dina Cannizzaro. She’s a mom who has been through hell and back but has channeled all that fear and anxiety into actionable steps toward relearning how to connect with her son and harness the surprising power of self-care. Hear how far she and her son Parker have come now that he’s been in active recovery for six years. Y...
2022-11-0359 min
Savor This Breakthrough Full Audiobook — Perfect Between Meetings.Horror in the House of Mirrors by Tommy KrappweisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/112850to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Horror in the House of Mirrors
Series: Ghostsitter, Book 4
Author: Tommy Krappweis
Narrator: Michael Braun, James Fouhey, Jessie Cannizzaro, Marc Vietor, Stephen Bel Davies, Mateo D’Amato, Mateo, Jay Snyder, Dina Pearlman, Richard Ferrone, Eliza Foss, Elizabeth Evans, Paul Castro Jr., Jennifer Aquino, full cast
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 10-06-22
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 167 ratings
Genres: Scary Stories
Publisher's Summary:
In the fourth installment of Germany’s popular Ghostsitter series, famous best-selling author Tiffany Shuster wants to promote her latest vampire romance novel, so she...
2022-10-064h 08
Get Top-Rated Audiobook Collection for Your LibraryA Crazy Inheritance | Tommy KrappweisPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/112917 to listen full audiobooks.
Publisher's Summary: When Tom is invited to the reading of a will of a great-uncle he’s never heard of, there’s no way to know what to expect. But on the long list of possible things to inherit, a travelling carnival ghost train is the very last on the list. To get his full $10 million inheritance, all Tom has to do is run the antique ride until his 18th birthday. Easy. Except for a strange caped-creep he’s never met, who’s trying to con him out of the mone...
2020-06-054h 25Get Hooked On Into A Powerful Full Audiobook On A Rainy Day.A Crazy Inheritance by Tommy KrappweisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/112917to listen full audiobooks.
Title: A Crazy Inheritance
Series: Ghostsitter, Book 1
Author: Tommy Krappweis
Narrator: Michael Braun, Marc Vietor, Jay Snyder, Dina Pearlman, Cynthia Darlow, Stephen Bel Davies, James Fouhey, Jeena Yi, Jessie Cannizzaro, Kevin T. Collins, Mateo D'Amato
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 06-04-20
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 4,574 ratings
Genres: Scary Stories
Publisher's Summary:
When Tom is invited to the reading of a will of a great-uncle he’s never heard of, there’s no way to know what to expect. But on the long list of possible things to i...
2020-06-044h 25