Empower Your Love
and
Save the Relationship with Your Child
The grief, worry, not knowing what do or how they are, guilt, anger, so many big emotions can be suffocating. Being a parent of a child struggling with substance use is one of the hardest things you might ever experience. So please don't muddle through it alone or without enough support. No one can do this alone, and you are not alone.
There's a name for grieving a child who is alive but not available physically or mentally. It's called Ambiguous Grief, and it can include guilt, worry, anger, profound sadness, shame, isolation, and more. I don't have to tell you it's painful. It's so important to know how to restore your peace, to be imperfect, and to empower yourself by learning and practicing essential skills to love your child through their addiction, while you love yourself too.
You're invited to be part of a larger family, a community of other parents who get it, and hold each other in love and support, in healing, and creating change.
Love wins here!
A FREE GUIDE FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO STRUGGLE WITH ADDICTION
The Kindness of Boundaries
Making Sense of the What, Why, and How
- Know what a boundary truly is and what it is not so that you can create them and use them effectively.
- Understand why boundaries can be a loving act so that you can nurture the relationship with your child instead of becoming exhausted by tension and conflict
- Learn how to create kinder boundaries that are true and meaningful for you so that you can connect with your child, with more peace
Things can change with the right tools. Let's create some healing and change today!
Love Wins Here!
Sign up to receive inspiration and updates that can support your healing, skill-building, and empower your precious love. Together, we can find our light and shine it into the dark places of addiction. Let's create some brighter days and possibilities for ourselves and our families!
Because your child struggles with substance use, you have a choice to use it for purpose. Make no mistake about it, you have power. You need to know how to use it. You and the way you think, the way you live your life, how you approach your child and the hard stuff, these things are the change makers.
It only takes one person to create change.
You Are That One
Let's walk this journey together. We can find peace and healing within and beyond addiction.
"All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always." ~ Truman Capote
Love Shows Up Here
A FREEBIE guide to reconnect you with your greatest purpose - to be love. Here's a path.
Letter From a Child
A FREEBIE gift and inspiring letter of truth and guidance from child to parent.
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What people are saying...
I have been an Alanoner for a long time but have to say Joanne's class has added so much to my life, I can barely explain it. It brought all those years of meetings, counseling, etc. together. Thanks Joanne again.
~ E
It’s like coming out of the darkness and into the light. It’s changing all my relationships.
~ L
It’s really helping me to connect with my son, see how beautiful he is, and relieve my worrying. I'm not as angry anymore, I'm accepting him more, and feel less tension between us. Thank you Joanne!
~ R
Thank you Joanne. You have helped me so much to question my thoughts and beliefs. I have been living in such a hopeless dark place and doing this work with you has helped me re-think everything.
~ M
You helped me learn how to communicate with my son and I’m forever grateful. He has been in recovery and is living on his own & working. I’m still working on my own self and our relationship is better than ever. The bonus is he calls me almost every day, love wins!!!!
~ P
It was your group and your words that taught me how to love my child through her addiction. Your words helped me help her realize her strength and worth. I thank you every day for her life and mine. I hope for peace for your family.
~ B
Inspiring Reads from Hearts at Work
A Healing Path
Come into this place
Come in. Come into this place which we make holy by our presence.
Come in with all your vulnerabilities and strengths, fears, and anxieties, loves, and hopes. For here you need not hide, nor pretend, nor be anything other than who you are and are called to be.
Come into this place where we can touch and be touched, heal and be healed, forgive, and be forgiven.
Come into this place, where the ordinary is sanctified, the human is celebrated, the compassionate is expected.
Come into this place. Together we make it a holy place.
~ Rebecca Edmiston-Lange
Saying No, with Love
Saying no to anyone can sometimes be hard. Saying no when the demands and chance of argument are real can make it even harder. Along with mental health and addiction concerns, it's easy to find yourself saying yes just to avoid more pressure and difficulty, but it's also easy to blame yourself and possibly your child because of it. So the cycle of confusion and conflict continues. Urgh! In this course, you will identify the innocence of why you say yes when you want to say no, how to find your truest and honest answer, and how to be more confident communicating it without guilt, and instead with clarity and kindness so that you can show up in a calm and peaceful way. If it works for you, it can transfer to your child.
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The Fear Less Mom
It's normal to have fears and worries, lots of emotions, lots of judgments on what we want to be different. But, what happens when it's not changing, when you don't get what you think you want and need? It's super easy to get stuck in fear, continuing to want and need despite the stress of unfulfillment, to think things should or shouldn't be that way, especially when the risks are real. Fear has its way, but that energy blocks your capacity to love, and access skills that are necessary to love a child through their struggles. With deeper understanding and exploring our fears, it can show us the way back to our heart, and to love with connection and clearer communication. This is a powerful and transformational 6 week live course to care for your fears, and let them guide you to the truth your dear heart seeks, more peace, more connection with your child, more love.
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The Empowered Mom's Journey
When we love a child through an addiction, there is worry, fear, guilt, resentment, and lots of tough emotions. We can build resilience and empower our love by caring for the fear, learning skills in boundaries, communication, and what supports change to happen.
This is a 12-week journey, an online course to find healing, to move beyond fear and into the kind of understanding that brings you more peace so that you can share that with your child. Be supported, change the way you think, and create conditions that change your life and relationships.
Create your own personal peace path, one that empowers your love, and could very well empower your child, and save your relationship. Love Wins Here!
Learn MoreThe Invitation To Change
This group is for parents who are concerned about a child (or children) who is struggling with substance use. Whether you are new at this or have been watching your child struggle for years, this group can help. By joining this group, you are taking a proactive step. If you've been told to detach or let your child hit rock bottom, and that doesn't feel right, this group is for you. Practicing compassion, kindness, and staying close will benefit you and your child. These are the core principles of our group. This program has a proven track record of helping many parents. Parents can influence and help their children change. There is HOPE
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