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Safe Home Podcast
by Safe Home Podcast
For struggling teens and their families finding their healing path. 18yo Joey and his moms Beth and Jan share from the heart their experiences and struggles with addiction and mental health.
Episodes
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Transitioning from Safe Home Podcast to Unraveling Adoption - Ep 74
In this very special episode, Beth Syverson, host of Safe Home Podcast, explains her pivot to Unraveling Adoption. This is the last episode of Safe Home, and the first episode of Unraveling Adoption. She explains what the new title means, what the future plans are, and she provides ways for...
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Partnership Parenting with Lainie Liberti & Her Son Miro Siegel - Ep 73
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Lainie Liberti and her 23yo son Miro Siegel. Lainie Liberti is a best selling author, international speaker, teen mentor, worldschooler, partnership parenting paradigm advocate and mother. In 2012 Lainie co-founded Project World School with her…
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Neurodiverse Family Adventures with Carolyn Balagot - Ep 72
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Carolyn Balagot, an advocate for neurodiverse people. In her family, she, her husband, and her 3 kids are all neurodiverse in one way or another - primarily with ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has worked at her children’s school as a 504…
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Destigmatizing Mental Illness with Amanda Lipp - Ep 71
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Amanda Lipp, a documentary filmmaker and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of mental health, storytelling, and technology. Amanda has produced over 80 short documentaries about mental health and social impact - covering topics such…
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An Unforgettable Adoption Reunion Story with Doris Blumenthal - Ep 70
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Doris Blumenthal, an adopted person who lives in Northern California. Her adoption story is one of the adoptee narratives in the documentary Reckoning with the Primal Wound, which you’ve probably heard me talking about before. The filmmaker…
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Connective Parenting with Bonnie Harris - Ep 69
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Bonnie Harris, a New Hampshire-area director of Connective Parenting, where she is a parent educator, counselor, coach, and speaker. She wrote two parenting books: When Your Kids Push Your Buttons and Confident Parents, Remarkable Kids: 8…
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Coping with OCD's Intrusive Thoughts with Katherine Osborne - Ep 68
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with a family friend of hers from church - Katherine Osborne. Katherine shared with the church that she was recently diagnosed with OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I thought it might be good for our audience to learn from an eloquent teen how OCD...
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Grandparents Raising Grandkids with Catherine Becker - Ep 67
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Catherine Becker, founder of the support group called Joys and Challenges of Relative Caregivers. She’s a grandma who is raising her three young grandkids while her daughter struggles with addiction. When she tried to find a tribe of other…
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Chronic Suicidality with Frank King - Ep 66
**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode will be talking directly about suicide, so this might not be for everyone to listen to right now. But we at Safe Home believe this is a very important topic so we hope you’ll listen when it’s safe for you to do so. In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with...
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A Recovery Journey with Veronica Silva
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Rev. Veronica Silva, a New Thought minister and a nurse who has struggled with alcoholism since she was young, but who has been in recovery for 26 years. Veronica has been on a spiritual journey since June 24th, 1996, when she got sober from…
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More Than Sex Ed with Emmalinda MacLean - Ep 64
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Emmalinda MacLean, co-founder of More Than Sex-Ed, a Los Angeles-based non-profit whose mission is to nourish healthy development through honest conversation about sex. She is the Director of Curriculum & Instruction at More Than Sex-Ed plus she...
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BEST OF: Cough Medicine and Other OTC Drugs - Ep 2 REPLAY
Safe Home is on vacation this week, so we're replaying one of our favorite episodes. When we started Safe Home Podcast in August 2021, this episode was the most important one we did. Our family wants everyone to know the dangers of having cough medicine and other OTC drugs unlocked and available…
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Open-Hearted Adoption with Lori Holden, AKA Lavender Luz - Ep 63
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Lori Holden, an adoptive mom of 2 teens, author of the book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole, written with her daughter’s birth mom and featured on required reading lists with adoption agencies across the...
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Fentanyl Harm Reduction for Families with Nicole Miller - Ep 62
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Nicole Miller, a certified drug and alcohol counselor and coach from Oregon who teaches addiction pharmacology at Portland Community College. Even though she’s very knowledgeable about all kinds of drugs, I brought her onto Safe Home Podcast to…
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Writing Poetry to Process Depression with Colin Parrott - Ep 61
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Colin Parrott, a 16-year-old from Huntington Beach who has been struggling with depression. He has gotten help with his mental illness from his awesome mom Debbi and from modern medicine. But perhaps the best tool he’s found has been poetry. He’s...
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A Transracial Adoption Story with Darcy Mittelstaedt - Ep 60
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Darcy Mittelstaedt, an adult adoptee originally from Korea, and adopted into a dysfunctional family in Nebraska at age 2. Once she came out of the fog, as they say in adoption-land, and came to terms with her relinquishment trauma and chaotic...
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Being on the Receiving End of the CRAFT Method with Joey and Heather Ross - Ep 59
This week’s episode is very special because #1 Joey is with us for this one. And #2: It’s going to be a 3-way conversation with me, Joey, and our life coach Heather Ross. If you’ve listened to any of our episodes, you’ve probably heard me mention her, or you might have heard one of her 2 episodes...
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Framework to Improve Mental Health with Renee Knapp - Ep 58
Movies & Conversations with Alex Kaplan from Of Substance Saturday, September 10, 2022, 10am PST OfSubstance.Eventbrite.com =============== In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Renee Knapp, a vice principal at a high school - or she would call it a deputy principal at a district high...
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Marriage Under the Influence of Alcohol with Dayna Del Val and Mazz Marry - Ep 57
Movies & Conversations with Alex Kaplan from Of Substance Saturday, September 10, 2022, 10am PST OfSubstance.Eventbrite.com =============== In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Dayna Del Val and Mazz Marry, a married couple from North Dakota who are bringing alcoholism out into the...
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Disordered Eating with Sue Bowles - Ep 56
Movies & Conversations with Alex Kaplan from Of Substance Saturday, September 10, 2022, 10am PST OfSubstance.Eventbrite.com =============== In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Sue Bowles, an Ohio-based master certified life coach, memoirist, and public speaker focusing on the topics...
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Families in Recovery with Pam Lanhart - Ep 55
OfSubstance.EventBrite.com - 9/10 In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Pam Lanhart. She’s the Director of the Minnesota based non-profit organization “Thrive Family Recovery Resources” that she started in 2016 to help families with addicted loved ones. She’s a certified recovery…
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Mindset Shifting with Tiffany Gay - Ep 54
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Tiffany Gay, a Philadelphia entrepreneur, mindset coach, and public speaker. Several years ago she experienced severe depression and anxiety, but through prayer, a shift in her mindset, and identifying her "Why" she was able to survive through her...
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Self-Care for Moms with Yvette Harpootian - Ep 53
Movies & Conversations with Alex Kaplan from Of Substance Saturday, September 10, 10am PST OfSubstance.Eventbrite.com =============== In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Yvette Harpootian, a certified life coach from Rhode Island who is passionate about helping women get out of...
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Creating Wellness with Leela Davis - Ep 52
OfSubstance.Eventbrite.com In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Leela Davis. She is a neurodivergent who combines her lived experience self-healing her Bipolar 1 and CPTSD symptoms and managing ADHD symptoms with training in the healing modalities that she found the most powerful in...
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Transformation and Healing with Jude Gorini - Ep 51
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Jude Gorini, a Brazilian who lives in Northern Italy. He identifies as gender queer, and works as an author, podcaster, intuitive coach, and creative artist. He has struggled with Bipolar, addiction, and gender identity issues and shares his life...
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Yoga for Healing Trauma with Lorah Gerald - Ep 50
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Lorah Gerald, an adoptee, an intuitive, a Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and writer. Lorah hopes to help others heal their trauma, adopted or not, by sharing her lived experiences as an adoptee as well as her education in breath work, energy healing…
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A Courageous Spiritual Journey with Bobbi Becker - Ep 49
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Rev. Bobbi Becker, the Senior Minister and Spiritual Director at Namasté Center for Spiritual Living in Long Beach, California. In this episode, Bobbi tells her story of being a gay New Thought minister who grew up in the Mormon church and whose...
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Trauma and Resilience with Cheyanne Alsop - Ep 48
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with one of Joey’s friends, 19yo Cheyanne Alsop. Like Joey, Cheyanne was adopted, her adoptive parents later got divorced, and she struggled with mental health issues throughout her adolescence. Cheyanne’s harrowing childhood would leave most people...
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Anxiety Toolbox with Jeanette Matthew - Ep 47
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Jeanette Matthew. She lives in North Yorkshire in the UK, and she is a certified coach who helps individuals and organizations transform their uncertainty, overwhelm, and lack of clarity into goals, action plans, and confidence. Her specialty is...
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Recovery Coaching with Tracy Struckman - Ep 46
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Tracy Struckman, an Indiana-based recovery coach who has 8 years of recovery from a destructive heroin addiction. She now helps others who are struggling with addiction to find long-term recovery. She is just completing her licensure to become a...
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Holding Space with Tamara Gabbard - Ep 45
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Tamara Gabbard. She lives in the jungles of Costa Rica with her toddler Rubi-Jean. Tamara is a Copywriter and Content Marketing Strategist, and she also identifies as a Soul Consultant and Clairvoyant. She combines her skills in both the practical...
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The Tough Post-High School Transition with Taylor Cox - Ep 44
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with her long-time piano student, 19-year-old Taylor Cox. Taylor graduated from high school in 2021, and has had a year of pivoting, personal growth, and some common teenage challenges since then. She talks openly about her struggles in the hopes that...
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Cannabis Science and Side Effects with Jason Wilson - Ep 43
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Joey joins Beth to talk with Jason Wilson about the science and side effects of cannabis. Jason is a botanist, educator, author, and podcaster whose primary interest right now is cannabis. He studies the chemistry and microbiology of cannabis, and has unique...
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Safe Home Families Update with Jan & Beth - Ep 42
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth and Jan, Joey’s moms, give a State of the Family update. They talk about what’s been happening with all 3 family members, and share their vision for Safe Home Families as well. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list:...
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Creating Short Films to Conquer Shame with Alex Kaplan - Ep 41
THIS PODCAST EPISODE CAN BE SEEN IN VIDEO FORMAT ON YOUTUBE AT: https://youtu.be/cQeNVrW0v2U In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Alex Kaplan, co-founding Executive Director & Chief Vision Officer of “Of Substance,” an innovative nonprofit that makes premium, entertaining short films...
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Never Give Up Hope! with Erik, Beth, & Laurie - Ep 40
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Erik, who spent three decades living under the dark cloud of active addiction, but who is now whole and walking on the recovery path. It’s a dramatic transformation story that testifies to the power of love and hope in our addicted loved one’s...
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The Belonging Blueprint with Ross Leppala - Ep 39
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Ross Leppala, professional powerlifter, coach, host of the Project UnchainED podcast, and creator of The Belonging Blueprint course. He suffered from bullying and suicidal ideation when he was young, but sports, especially football, turned his…
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EMDR for Healing Trauma with Emma Stevens - Ep 38
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Emma Stevens, whose new memoir The Gathering Place: An Adoptee’s Story was written during her treatment with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR has helped her deal with her adoption trauma and other developmental trauma…
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Non-Binary Musician Spencer LaJoye - Ep 37
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Boston musician Spencer LaJoye, who identifies their gender as non-binary. They came out as bisexual in college and years later came out as non-binary, all within Christian communities. Beth became aware of Spencer when she heard their song...
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Sound Healing with Ellen Newhouse - Ep 36
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with transformational healer Ellen Newhouse, who uses Acupuncture, Sound Healing, and Energy Medicine in her private practice. This episode focuses on sound healing as a way to transform negative emotions, open up the heart, connect with our loved…
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) with Kaitlyn Vosburg - Ep 35
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Kaitlyn Vosburg who is an advocate for people with DID - Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. She has a TikTok account called “apartofeight” where she shares real life scenes from her own journey with…
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Losing a Child to Addiction with Heather Ross - Ep 34
In this week’s episode, Beth interviews her parent coach, Heather Ross, who recently lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning. Clips of Heather’s previous podcast episodes with her daughter are heard throughout this episode. RESOURCES: How to find Heather: Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents…
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Tapping (EFT) with Andy Bryce - Ep 33
In this week’s episode we will dive into a wonderfully effective and low-tech healing modality called EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique - or it’s sometimes just called Tapping. Beth’s guest is Andy Bryce, one of 26 remaining Founding EFT Masters in the world. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom...
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A Family's Recovery Journey with Dawn McCord - Ep 32
In this week’s episode you will hear another family’s story of adolescent addiction and recovery. Dawn McCord’s son Carson had a tumultuous adolescence but he found recovery through wilderness therapy. Dawn’s new memoir "Chasing Carson: A Family's Journey through Adolescence, Addiction and...
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Neurodiversity and Gender Diversity with Lyric Holmans - Ep 31
This week’s episode is about All The Diversities. Beth interviews Lyric Holmans, a non-binary, autistic self-advocate who runs the blog and Facebook page “The Neurodivergent Rebel” plus their company Neurodivergent Consulting. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list:...
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Empowering Adoptees with Rebecca Autumn Sansom - Ep 30
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with an adult adoptee, Rebecca Autumn Sansom, who recently created an adoption documentary called Reckoning with the Primal Wound, a film that juxtaposes her own powerful adoption story with the wisdom of Nancy Verrier, who wrote The Primal Wound, the...
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Recovery and Authenticity with Lona (LC) Currie - Ep 29
In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with podcaster, motivational speaker, and writer Lona (LC) Currie. LC has recovered from long-term drug and alcohol misuse, and after he became stable as a sober person, he transitioned to his true gender. He was considered a “lost cause” by many, but...
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Beth as guest on The Whinypaluza Podcast - Ep 28
In this week’s episode, we’re sharing an interview Beth had on another mom’s podcast recently: Rebecca Greene’s The Whinypaluza Podcast. Here are some of the topics we cover: - Why being a reactive parent isn’t helpful during times of stress. - How teens can easily hide their drug use from their...
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Hypnotherapy with Pamela Topjian - Ep 27
In this episode, Beth learns about hypnotherapy with Pamela Topjian from Breakthrough Hypnotherapy. She talks about her own healing path from childhood trauma, how she got into hypnotherapy, and how hypnotherapy can help create more peace and heal trauma for teens and parents. Joey checks in at…
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Learning Disabilities with Jill Stowell - Ep 26
In this episode, Beth talks with learning disabilities specialist Jill Stowell from Stowell Learning Center. She talks about how early childhood affects a person’s ability to learn, and she gives great ideas to parents that will help them advocate for their child and find solutions for their...
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