Living With Your Child's Addiction

About Living With Your Child's Addiction

There’s nothing wrong with you for caring deeply about your child’s addiction. For five years Heather used tough love while waiting for her daughter to hit rock bottom. Her health deteriorated and her daughter's addiction escalated. The only thing that hit rock bottom was their relationship. Both their journeys changed when Heather discovered compassionate, evidence-based approaches like CRAFT that healed their relationship and the wounds of tough love. Join Heather as she explores tools and strategies designed to create peace, well-being, and a better relationship with your child.

Publisher

Heather Ross

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Dec 2020

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

10 of 145 episodes have a transcript.

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   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 140 Relationship Matters, Even When Addiction Doesn't Change With Guest Dominique Dajer

   Heather Ross interviews Dominique Dajer about navigating family relationships and supporting siblings through addiction, offering insights on connection and boundaries.

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   22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 139 Rock Bottom Is Not a Plan: What Actually Helps Create Change

   Heather Ross Coaching explores how internal conflict and identity, not just pain, drive change, offering parents a compassionate path to support their child's recovery.

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   7 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   EP 138 Becoming The Safe Person Your Child Calls For Help With Kelly Krehbiel

   Host Heather Ross interviews Kelly Krehbiel about how embracing the CRAFT approach transformed her relationship with her son, making her a safe person he calls for help.

Inside a recent episode

EP 140 Relationship Matters, Even When Addiction Doesn't Change With Guest Dominique Dajer

Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I thought, we can't be that different. We're still mammals. My brother has been in a situation where he doesn't have an opportunity to connect with others. So I figured this has to work too. And I just found more opportunities and ways to connect with him as a sibling and try not to do so much of the connecting as a parent. which is what I had done for so long. So it was definitely a weird situation to like navigate all of these different resources and try to make my own like informed opinion about it. Yeah, that TED talk was really pivotal for me too. When I found it, it really spoke to my heart and kind of, I think I found that TED talk around the time I found the book Beyond Addiction, How Science and Kindness Helped People Change, and that it just seemed like as my heart was changing these resources, I'm finding, like, finally start finding something that actually matches what I want. […]

Who has been a guest on Living With Your Child's Addiction

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dominique Dajer
• Kelly Krehbiel
• Sheree Stillwell
• Paula Browne Stumph
• Pam Lanhart

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

17,484

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

75 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

53 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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