Parenting Post-Wilderness

About Parenting Post-Wilderness

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 guides to Parenting Post-wilderness are Beth Hillman, a life coach for parents of struggling teens and mom to a post-wilderness teen, and part-time co-host Seth Gottlieb, a wilderness therapy guide turned teen and young-adult recovery coach. Their unique combination of experience and training yields candid conversations chock full of practical, actionable tips and tools to smooth the challenges both parents and teens experience surrounding treatment. Every week, you can expect conversations around: Parenting a struggling teen or young-adult; Setting healthy boundaries with your teen; Treatment options for your struggling teen or young adult; Bringing your kid home from treatment; Parenting skills to support your struggling child; Teen substance abuse, drug addiction, gaming addiction, suicidal ideation, or other teen mental health concerns; How to end power struggles and instead foster healthy communication with your teen or young-adult; And much more. Listen in to discover how parents like you have learned to influence equanimity in the home and rebuild connections with the teens they love. Connect with Beth on Instagram (@bethhillmancoaching) or find more information about working with Beth at www.bethhillmancoaching.com.

Publisher

Beth Hillman | Parent Coach for Parents of Struggling Teens

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Aug 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

226 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   215. Helping a Teen with Addiction Without Enabling Them With Former Struggling Teen Thomas Henderson

   Your teen is struggling with addiction and you’re terrified that helping them might actually be making things worse. What do you do? In this episode, I’m joined by Thomas Henderson, a former struggling teen who began using substances at just 11 years old and eventually found himself caught in a cycle of addiction, relapse, treatment, and recovery. Today, Thomas works with families and uses his own experience to help parents and kids navigate some of the same challenges he once lived through. ...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   214. When Your Expectations Become Pressure: A Struggling Teen’s Perspective With Justin Levine

   You want the best for your teen. You want them to succeed, make good choices, and build a life they can be proud of. But what happens when the expectations you have for your child start to feel like pressure to them? If you’re anything like me, you might be thinking right now, “But I don’t expect my kid to become a doctor!” And neither did I. But parental expectations and pressure can be much more subtle than that. Sometimes they show up in the activities we encourage, the questions we ask.&n...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   213. Rebuilding Connection With Your Struggling Teen: Why You Might Need to Stop Trying So Hard

   You’re trying so hard to repair what’s been broken, to rebuild trust, and feel close again with your teen or young adult. So when they pull away, it can feel almost impossible to not try harder. But what if trying harder to reconnect is actually making this very connection harder? In this episode, Seth and I have a very honest conversation about rebuilding connection with your struggling teen or young adult, and how difficult it can be to practice what we teach when the person we love is the ...

Who has been a guest on Parenting Post-Wilderness

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• Jarrod Hoffman
• Dr Jerry Weichman
• Seth Gottlieb
• Lisa Miller
• Tatiana Guerreiro Ramos

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

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Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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