Addiction For Parents

College football fans have welcomed Emmy Award-winning ESPN sideline reporter Lauren Sisler into their homes weekly since 2016. But the popular journalist known for asking insightful questions and for the viral videos dancing her signature “sideline shimmy” shielded a tragic secret behind her smile for nearly two decades: her mother and father died within hours of each other, victims of their hidden battle with prescription drug addiction.

Learn How To Help An Alcoholic Alcoholism affects everybody. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do, if you know an alcoholic, your life will change. Interpersonal relationships will suffer, recovery will stagnate, and families will crumble. Coping with an alcoholic can be the most trying thing in the world, damaging us emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. Alcoholism and the family can never go hand-in-hand. But it can be treated. Alcohol addiction recovery is possible. Whether coping with an alcoholic spouse, living in an alcoholic family, struggling with an ...

Video games are a common outlet for many kids, providing them with entertainment, social interaction, and even a sense of accomplishment. As parents, it’s important to know when your child’s favorite activity turns into an addiction. Luckily, you are not alone, and there are real solutions for your child’s video game habit. If you want to learn how to help your child create balance in their life with diversified interests and a renewed focus on responsibility, then you need A Parent’s Guide to Video Game Addiction.

Are you concerned about your teen's THC use (smoking marijuana, vaping, dabbing, or using edibles)? In The Impact of THC on Our Children: A Parent's Worst Nightmare, twenty-five Parents of Children with Cannabis-Induced Psychosis (POCCIP) share their real-life stories of their children's THC use, addiction, mental illness, psychosis, and sometimes, sadly, suicide. This book is published by Johnny's Ambassadors Youth THC Prevention, a nonprofit in Colorado, with a mission to educate parents, teens, and communities about the dangers of today's potent THC products on adolescent brain ...

When Loving Them Hurts: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving an Addicted Adult Child You never thought you’d be here—living in the nightmare of addiction, watching your child spiral, feeling powerless to stop it. You’ve tried everything. You’ve begged, pleaded, paid for rehabs, covered for them, bailed them out, given second chances—and still, nothing changes. So what now? This book is for parents who are exhausted, heartbroken, and out of options. It’s for those drowning in guilt, fear, and the unbearable weight of waiting for the call. It’s for those who need real answers, hard ...

Don't Let Your Kids Kill You is a landmark work that dares to focus on the plight of the confused, distressed parent and not the erring child. It sets aside any preconceived ideas that parents are to blame for what is essentially a full-blown global crisis. Drawing on interviews with parents who have survived the heartbreak of kids on drugs, combined with his own experience, Charles Rubin provides practical advice on how parents can help themselves and their families by first attending to their own needs.

FORGIVENESS: The Greatest Gift You'll Ever Give Yourself (5th Anniversary Edition) Are you trapped in a prison of bitterness, anger, and unforgiveness? You're not alone. Millions of people carry the weight of past hurts, unable to move forward, unable to find peace. But there is a way out—and it starts with a single choice: the choice to forgive. FROM ROCK BOTTOM TO RADICAL FREEDOM Rev. John Eugene Miller knows what it's like to be imprisoned by unforgiveness. After a childhood marked by violence, abandonment, and trauma, he spent ten years drowning his pain in alcohol. Two divorces. Two ...

Your struggling teenager is going to a residential or wilderness treatment program. Their addictions, learning disabilities, or emotional/behavioral issues have brought you to a moment of decision. Heartsick, anxious, and exhausted, questions bounce endlessly around your mind. Will this work? Was this really necessary? Will she ever forgive me? Can we handle him at home when the time comes? Dr. Tim Thayne delivers the answers in his groundbreaking book Not by Chance.

I take the reader with me on my journey, as I pack all my belongings and finally leave my abusive home aged twenty-one. But although I am away from my controlled home environment, I cannot escape my bad memories. I am still living the terrible nightmares of my violent abusive childhood, which are embedded deep in the recesses of my mind. The horrors of my past affect my daily struggles to fit into society. Unable to cope with a normal life outside my dysfunctional family home, I drift from place to place trying to find sanctuary from my past but end up down a path of self-destruction, and ...

Faced with a severely schizophrenic daughter, homeless with no hope, and a heroin-addicted daughter clinging to life living in her car. A mother searches an infant boy's eyes for the answers. How can God's hand pull them through all this darkness? How will a mother find a different route? This is a journey through unmerciful mental madness and the torment of the people who desperately try to find help. Mentally ill are SKIPPED by society. Drug addiction is relentless. One day at a time, God's glorious path becomes clear.

✨ What happens to a child who forgets how to wonder? Not because he wanted to—but because the world quietly taught him to. It didn’t hurt him loudly. It distracted him gently. 📱 With glowing screens. 🍬 With easy comforts. ⚡ With fast rewards. It gave him too much. Too soon. Too often. It told him happiness came in boxes. That boredom was a sickness. That silence was something to fear. So he stopped asking questions. He stopped looking at the stars. He stopped feeling… and started scrolling. This is the story of that child. But maybe—it’s your story, too. Or of the child ...

When we’re young and innocent we can't wait to grow up and begin our lives as imagined. But then life happens and we rarely get the life we expected. What happened? What went wrong? My husband and I had four wonderful children with blossoming lives ahead. But my daughter, who suffered from drug addiction, thought she'd be spared after giving birth. She planned to devote her life to him, but was now on drugs. "Should I save her?" asked Brady, her precious four-year-old son. "No one can save her, sweetheart," I answered. "Only she can save herself." A riveting story of my family's ...

Are you still carrying the echoes of childhood wounds into your adult life? You may be unaware, but this book can help you explore where you stand. Unlock the power of self-compassion and reconnect with the child within in Healing Your Inner Child, a transformative 10-step journey to emotional freedom.This book offers a compassionate, practical approach to understanding and healing childhood wounds that may be affecting your present life. Through gentle self-discovery, proven techniques, and actionable exercises, you'll learn to identify unconscious patterns, develop healthy coping ...

Do you sometimes wish that your child could exercise more control where playing his or her favorite video game is concerned? Have you sometimes lost your cool over your kid’s “unhealthy” enthusiasm for the electronic game that you even considered throwing the expensive gaming gear out the window – or snatching that tablet out of their hands? Do you wish sometimes that your kid’s “addiction” to their video game, besides obviously being a great source of enjoyment for them, should be a positive experience for you all? Electronic games, including video games, can help families ...

When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same year, Rosemary is left on her own with two young daughters and antsy addiction demons dancing in her head. This is the nucleus of The Art of Losing It: a young mother jerking from emergency to emergency as the men in her life drop dead around her; a high-functioning radio show host waging war with her addictions while trying to raise her two little girls who just lost their daddy.

Have you ever experienced a sickness that keeps coming repeatedly? Are you struggling to keep a long time relationship? Do you experience hindrances at the point of getting a job, an appointment or business breakthrough? Do you notice a particular negative pattern running in your life or family? Many people today suffer from certain diseases and demonic attacks repeatedly. They never maintain a stable job or keep a meaningful relationship. This book “Deliverance from Stagnation and Evil Family Patterns” is a deliverance manual that helps you overcome demonic attack, evil sickness, ...

My Daddy Drinks Too Much: Navigating Childhood with a Father Who Struggles with Alcohol Use Disorder Growing up with an alcoholic parent leaves scars that last a lifetime. Whether you're an adult child of an alcoholic, a mental health professional, or someone seeking to understand the effects of addiction on family dynamics, My Daddy Drinks Too Much offers a compassionate, insightful guide to emotional recovery. In this powerful and healing book, readers will embark on a journey through the emotional chaos, confusion, and heartbreak of growing up with a father who struggles with Alcohol Use...

You’re not addicted to your phone. You’re addicted to being manipulated. Every scroll is a tiny surrender. A flick of the thumb. A blink of time. A quiet agreement: “Take my attention. Take my mind.” And what do you get in return? Anxiety. Comparison. Isolation disguised as connection. Rage disguised as relevance. Distraction disguised as information. You don’t even remember what you saw — only that you couldn’t stop. You opened the app for a reason. You just can’t remember what it was. This isn’t your fault. But it is your problem. Quit Social Media: The Scroll Is ...

Feel like screens are taking over your child’s life? You're not alone — and you're not powerless. Raising Tech-Free Kids is a practical, compassionate, and timely guide for parents who want to break free from the grip of constant screen time and build a more connected, mindful, and balanced family life. In a world where digital distractions are everywhere, many parents feel overwhelmed, guilty, or unsure of how to set healthy boundaries. This book is here to help you reclaim your child’s attention, spark their creativity, and rediscover the power of presence — all without relying on...

Cell phones, video games, and computers make our lives richer. Yet, they are also wreaking havoc on children and teens who are not able to use them in a healthy way, leading to problems at home, school, and in the community. Youth who are escaping into an electronic world are missing valuable opportunities to develop the skills required for successful relationships and adult careers.