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Parenting Post-Wilderness: Parenting a Struggling Teen Before, During and After Treatment

Beth Hillman | Parent Coach for Parents of Struggling Teens

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

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109. Sitting with Discomfort: Building Emotional...

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2024/09/24

We are all wired to avoid uncomfortable feelings. We instinctively shy away from discomfort, parents and teens alike. Whether it’s solving a problem for our kids, distracting ourselves from uncomfortable feelings, or we’re trying to save the day, we often act to avoid the tension. But here’s the hard truth: our teens need to experience that discomfort in order to grow. In this episode, Seth and I explore why learning to sit with emotional unease, both for ourselves and our teens or young adul...

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29:46

108. Co-parenting Challenges: For Divorced,...

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2024/09/17

Co-parenting is hard - there’s no sugarcoating it. In an ideal world, both parents would align perfectly on every decision, from phone use to curfews to navigating friendships. But, as Seth and I explore in this episode, that’s often not the case. One of the biggest challenges I often see as a parent coach is when one parent holds firm boundaries while the other is more loose. It can feel like a tug-of-war, and the fear of "losing" your child to the more relaxed parent is real. But here’...

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107. Understanding Teen Brain Development With Junior...

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2024/09/10

“An adolescent brain, it is what it is for a reason”- Brittney KingThe teenage years can feel like a rollercoaster. One moment your young teen is playing it cool, and the next, they’re literally rolling on the ground pretending to be a dog. Sound familiar? In this week’s episode, I sit down with Brittney King, a licensed counselor, mom of five, and creator of the Think Good Feel Good online courses, to dive into the world of teens, particularly those in Junior High, aged 11-15. “It’s suc...

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106. Be the Change You Wish to See in Your Teen:...

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2024/09/03

What if improving your relationship with your teen starts with changing yourself?Are you willing to look at your own behavior to improve your relationship with your teen? If you know me at all, you know I truly believe the change begins with us. In this episode, Seth and I dive deeper into what that actually means for you as a parent. Seth dropped quite the truth bomb in this episode: "None of us is perfect in how we relate to everybody." And isn't that the crux of it? We go into situati...

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24:52

105. Becoming Aware Of Your Limits as a Parent and...

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2024/08/27

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.Have you ever snapped at your partner or your teen over something small, not really sure why you overreacted? Or like no matter how much sleep you get or how many cups of coffee you drink, there’s still a part of you that feels completely drained? Oof, believe me, you’re not alone. In this episode, Seth and I dive deep into a topic that reso...

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104. Encouraging vs. Enabling: How to Help Your Teen...

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2024/08/20

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.As parents, it’s natural to want to do everything we can to support our struggling teens or young adults. But where do we draw the line between encouraging them to grow and enabling them to remain dependent? It’s a delicate balance and I’m joined again by therapist Trevor Allen to dive into one of the more challenging questions for any paren...

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25:55

103. Sobriety: What Does It Mean and Is It Really...

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2024/08/13

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.You want your teen to be sober, don’t you? But aren’t you focusing on the wrong goal by expecting your teen not to drink any alcohol or take any substances? And what does being sober actually mean? Does it mean the same thing to you as it does to your teen?“Progress, navigation, experimentation, these are normal parts of teenage and young-adult

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29:42

102. Why Your Teen Isn’t Acting Like an Adult

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2024/08/06

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.Why doesn’t your teen learn from their mistakes? Or admit when they’re wrong? Why can’t they just act like an adult? If you’ve ever wondered about any of these, you’re not alone. To answer these questions, we’re diving into the world of teenage brain development and what it means for us as parents. Spoiler alert: it’s not as straightforward as

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101. Believing in Your Teen’s Potential Is Everything...

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2024/07/30

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.“Parents have so much influence on their child’s concept of themselves.” - CiaraWhat if your struggling teen could look at themselves with hope and confidence, knowing they have the power to overcome their challenges?This second conversation with formerly struggling teen Ciara Fanlo is focussed around one main questions: What can parents do...

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100. Why Teens Turn to Destructive Behaviors: A...

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2024/07/23

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.From a very young age, Ciara felt like she didn’t belong. Cutting was just one of her destructive behaviors to cope with the pain she felt: not knowing how to be in the world with how sensitive her heart was.Ciara Fanlo is a previously struggling teen who spent the majority of her adolescence in treatment, including inpatient hospitalization,

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32:05

99. Why Your Teen Doesn’t Just Do What You Tell Them

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2024/07/16

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groupsI hope to see you there.WHY can’t my teen just do what I ask them to do?! I’m sure you’ve had this thought before, just like any other parent on this planet. Today, Seth shares a relatable story of a teen who’s not showing up and isn’t showing any motivation for behavioral change. Sounds familiar? Then this episode is for you.Why do our teens show up like this? Where

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51:09

98. What Does ‘Doing Your Work’ Mean? An Interview...

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2024/07/09

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groups I hope to see you there.“You think you’re doing okay and then you realize ‘How did I miss how much my child was struggling?’” - HopeMeet the parents from my latest parent coaching group. Eight months ago, these parents went on a 6-month journey with me to influence lasting change in themselves and their struggling teens. Now, they’re bravely sharing their stories,

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97. Parenting Tips from Former Troubled Teens Hayley...

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2024/07/02

🔆 Small GROUP COACHING program starting September 4th, 2024 🔆Sign up or learn more over at www.bethhillmancoaching.com/groups I hope to see you there.How can you best support your struggling teen according to former troubled teens? As teens, Hayley and Colin were both sent to wilderness, followed by other treatment (residential treatment center, and therapeutic boarding school). Now, approximately 12 years later, they use their experience as former troubled teens in treatment to pro...

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96. Learning How to Trust Your Struggling Teen Again

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2024/06/25

How can you trust your teen is learning and growing even when some behaviors look similar? Moving past your teen’s previous behavior can feel hard, especially when they’re showing similar behaviors now. But they’ve been to treatment, and they’re older now, so how can you know whether it’s a repetitive pattern behavior you’re witnessing or whether maybe the same behavior has a completely different motivation behind it?When something’s unknown, it’s very easy and normal for us to look for ...

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95. For Those With Difficult Relationships With Their...

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2024/06/18

We all have difficult relationships in our lives. A difficult relationship for me was the one with my father.We’re a few days after Father’s Day and I decided to dedicate this episode to my father. In this emotional episode, I’m sharing the talk I gave at my dad’s funeral. I remember how extremely hard it was, wanting to speak to the reality of my childhood and our relationship and at the same time shine a light on some of his good qualities.“I remember just thinking and crying over how in th...

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94. The Drama Triangle Within Family Dynamics

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2024/06/11

Have you ever felt stuck in a triangle within your family, where one of you takes on the role of the victim, the other the villain, and another the hero? Maybe good cop, bad cop sounds familiar to you?This is what we call the drama triangle, or triangulation, and it happens in every single family, whether you have a struggling teen or not. It often becomes a vicious cycle leading to massive problems and dysfunctional dynamics in our family. When one of you falls into their role, it triggers t...

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93. My Story: From a Struggling Parent of a...

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2024/06/04

In this deeply personal episode, I share my own journey through the challenges of parenting a son struggling with anger and substance abuse. In this crossover episode with People Who Suffer, Andrew McKee interviews me for a change and I’ll walk you through the first signs of my son’s struggles and how my emotions became entangled with his; when he was angry, I was angry. When he was upset, I was upset.The situation escalated when my son confessed his substance use, disappeared emotionall...

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92. The Process of Change: How Teens (And Parents)...

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2024/05/28

Why do our teens keep falling back into old habits?Whether it’s big changes like making healthier life choices or smaller ones like working out more, change is hard! But why? Why is change so hard? And at the same time, it’s also hard to watch someone go through the stages of change, isn’t it? When your struggling teen knows their behavior isn’t working for them anymore and they want to change, they’ve taken an incredibly important step in the process of change, but they’re not there yet...

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91. My Teen Is Refusing Therapy With Therapist Trevor...

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2024/05/21

What can you do as a parent when your teen is refusing therapy? Or when your kid stops engaging in therapy?I have a question for you, parent: Do you know WHY your struggling teen doesn’t want to go to therapy (anymore)? “I think most people really want to rise to what level they can and there’s probably something significant in the way if they’re not rising to that point” - Trevor AllenToday’s guest, Trevor Allen, helps us see beyond therapy refusal and take a collaborative approach with...

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90. The Way Out of an Impasse With Your Struggling Teen

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2024/05/14

What do you do when things aren’t working and it feels like there’s nothing left to be done?Whether your teen is isolating themselves in their room, refusing to go to school, self-harming, refusing to eat, refusing therapy, or any other negative pattern you find yourself in with your struggling teen, we sometimes reach the point where it feels like there’s nothing else we can do.You can’t control your teen. You can’t make them go to school or make them stop using substances. And that can feel...

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