When It’s Your Child: Mental Health, Addiction, Resilience, and the Story I Couldn’t Tell Until Now

A raw, honest conversation about loving a child through addiction and mental health struggles — from a parent’s perspective.There are stories you live through quietly long before you ever speak them out loud.This may be one of the most honest, most personal, but also most relevent conversations I’ve shared on the podcast so far. Not because I have answers, but because I talk about the things we can't talk about. I know how isolating this road can feel, and I want this space to be a beacon for anyone walking through something similar.I’m sharing what this past season has been like as a parent navigating addiction, mental health struggles, and the complicated reality of loving someone while learning how to let go of control. Not from a place of having it all figured out — but from the middle of the experience, where resilience looks less like strength and more like staying present.This is a conversation about what happens behind the scenes: the systems you suddenly have to learn, the emotional weight no one prepares you for, and the quiet ways your own identity shifts while you’re holding space for someone you love.We'll talk about:• Navigating the mental health system• The internal parent struggle• Extrovert/introvert processing• Resilience as practice• Identity shifts• Real-world emotional truths•Eemotional honesty• Feeling less alone• Letting go of control• Learning the language of mental healthWebsitePiece of Work, a MemoirInstagramFacebookTikTok