Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health
When your teen or young adult is misusing drugs or alcohol, you need more than just tactics—you need hope, healing, and a path forward for your entire family.
Hopestream delivers expert guidance and emotional support for parents navigating their child's substance use and mental health struggles. Hosted by Brenda Zane, Mayo Clinic Certified health coach and CRAFT-trained Parent Coach who nearly lost her son to addiction, this podcast goes beyond "how to get them into treatment" to address the full ecosystem of this journey.
Episodes features:
- Leading addiction, prevention, and treatment experts
- Real stories from families who've been there
- Evidence-based strategies for helping your child
- Self-care and coping tools for parents
- Deeper conversations about finding meaning, joy, and even unexpected blessings through the hardest times
Whether you're dealing with a teen or young adult's drug use, alcohol misuse, or co-occurring mental health challenges, Hopestream offers the comprehensive support other parenting and addiction podcasts miss. This is your safe space to heal, learn, and discover you're not alone.
New episodes weekly. Join us between the episodes at hopestreamcommunity.org.
Episodes
323 episodes
Co-Dependency Isn’t What You Think, with Rawly Glass, LCSW
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Rawly Glass grew up in a home full of violence. At 16, he made a pact that he would figure out how to do things differently. He earned a master's in social work, built a career in private therapy, and by all appe...
Stuck After Treatment: Real Options Parents Overlook, with Will White
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Will White has been doing this work since last century, and he means that literally. Licensed since 1989, he has worked in group homes, boarding schools, mental health centers, and in 1996, co-founded Summit Achi...
Misreading Your Child's Substance Use: What Parents Get Wrong with Brenda Zane
ABOUT THE EPISODE:I have sat with hundreds of moms who came to me at completely different points in their child's substance use, and the gap between them has always struck me. One mom is barely breathing, convinced the worst is al...
4 Things You’re Probably Googling if Your Child Struggles With Substances, with Cathy Cioth
ABOUT THE EPISODE:There is a specific kind of searching that happens at 2am when you are a parent in the thick of it, typing symptoms and half-formed fears into a search bar because you cannot say them out loud to anyone in your l...
Is Your Anxiety Making Your Kid's Addiction Worse?, with Maya Kruger
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Maya Kruger grew up knowing, in a way children simply know things, that mothers die. Her own mother had lost her mother suddenly at 26, and the shadow of that loss shaped everything, including the fierce, almost ...
Your Calm Is Your Child's Best Drug, with Hunter Clarke-Fields
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Hunter Clarke-Fields was a painter. She had a graduate degree in art education, a high school teaching job, and what looked from the outside like a creative life. What nobody could see was that she was white-knuc...
Using CRAFT, Getting Results, Still Questioning: Coaching Episode
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When Marie's son was diagnosed with ADHD at eight, she did what devoted parents do. She learned everything and got to work. By the time weed entered the picture in his teens, she had already lined up CRAFT counse...
Why Kids Get Estranged From Loving Families, with Sally Harris
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When Sally Harris’s middle daughter started down a dangerous path at 14, she did what most devoted mothers do. She fought hard to fix it. Boarding school. Rehab. Anything and everything she could think of. What s...
What’s Tough Love and Does It Work For Addiction? With Cathy Cioth
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Tough love. Two words that get thrown around constantly in the addiction world, and yet nobody can quite agree on what they mean. Kick them out. Cut them off. Save yourself. That’s the version I heard early on, a...
Addiction Makes Sense to Your Child: Here's Why, with Jeremy French
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When I first heard about a woodworking apprenticeship as an addiction recovery program, I was skeptical. And then I sat down with Jeremy French, founder of Making Whole in Asheville, North Carolina, and everythin...
Ten Reasons You May Not Be Getting Results Using CRAFT, with Brenda Zane
ABOUT THE EPISODE:This solo episode is my attempt to provide answers to the question of why some families see greater change than others when using the CRAFT approach. Drawing on 6+ years of watching hundreds of parents move throu...
Breaking Down Wilderness Therapy Myths and Realities, with Trish Ruggles
ABOUT THE EPISODE: When parents hear "wilderness therapy," their minds often race to worst-case scenarios: punishment, boot camps, kids forced to survive in harsh conditions. But Trish Ruggles, who spent over a decade as a fi...
When to Stop Rescuing Your Child From Addiction, With Campbell Manning
ABOUT THE EPISODE: When Campbell Manning's middle son entered detox the day before Valentine's Day, she genuinely believed he'd be "fixed" and home within a week. What followed instead was a years-long journey through b...
Helping Your Young Adult Child Choose Treatment With Less Resistance, with Joanna Lilley
ABOUT THE EPISODE:If you've been waiting for the right moment to bring up the idea of getting your young adult some support, and you're not sure how to do it without blowing up every landmine between you, this episode is for you. ...
How Online Adult Content Impacts Youth, with Duane Osterlind
ABOUT THE EPISODE: When your child's phone becomes their constant companion, you might dismiss it as typical teenage behavior. But Duane Osterlind, LMFT with nearly two decades specializing in sexual addiction, shares a...
Be Ready When Your Child Is Ready To Accept Help for Addiction, With Brenda Zane
ABOUT THE EPISODE:You've been waiting for your child to say they're ready to get help. You've imagined that conversation a thousand times, rehearsed what you'll say, held your breath every time they seem close to opening up. But w...
How To Get Young People Ready for Real-World Sobriety, with Alex Zemeckis and Cannon Kristofferson
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When your child transitions from treatment back into everyday life, the real work begins. Alex Zemeckis and Cannon Kristofferson, co-founders of The Grounds Recovery and Mare's House, know the terrain intimately—...
Gas Station Garbage, Hidden Substances, and Helping Teens Find Healthy Connection, with Sebastian Martin
ABOUT THE EPISODE:If you’ve ever felt uncertain about what your teen or young adult might be using—and how easily accessible today’s substances have become—this episode is a must-listen. I sat down with Sebastian Martin, Executive...
Use Motivational Interviewing To Prevent Parenting Burnout, with Jennifer Ollis Blomqvist
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When Jennifer Ollis Blomqvist discovered Motivational Interviewing (MI) in a Swedish women's prison 25 years ago, she found more than a therapeutic technique—she discovered the antidote to professional burnout an...
The Hidden Casualties of Family Addiction Battles, with Brenda Zane
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:"When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." This African proverb stopped me mid-scroll during a walk, and I saw my family's addiction story with some pretty painful clarity. While my ex...
Recognizing Warrior Moms With Adult Kids In Addiction, with Cathy Cioth
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 bec...
A New Way To Treat Trauma and Addiction, with Jan Winhall
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When Jan Winhall landed her first job running a group for incest survivors in a psychiatric ward, she discovered something revolutionary: the young women's self-harming behaviors weren't signs of pathology – they...
The Telepathy Tapes: Connection Can Defy Logic, But Not Love, with Betsy Hicks-Russ
ABOUT THE EPISODE:When your child's struggles shatter every paradigm you've held about communication, consciousness, and connection, where do you turn? Today's guest, Betsy Hicks-Russ, found herself navigating this exact terrain a...
Don’t Get Distracted: Focus on The Right Things When Your Child Is Struggling with Substances, with Cathy Cioth
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 s...
Fostering Independence With Boundaries and Discomfort, with Nicole Runyon, LMSW
ABOUT THE EPISODE:Author and therapist, Nicole Runyon, LMSW, witnessed something that reshaped her entire career: loving, intact families were producing children with trauma-like symptoms typically identified in severe abuse survi...
