Brenda Zane

Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health

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When your teen or young adult is misusing drugs or alcohol, you need more than just tactics—you need hope, healing, and a path forward for your entire family. Hopestream delivers expert guidance and emotional support for parents navigating their child's substance use and mental health struggles. Hosted by Brenda Zane, Mayo Clinic Certified health coach and CRAFT-trained Parent Coach who nearly lost her son to addiction, this podcast goes beyond "how to get them into treatment" to address the full ecosystem of this journey. Episodes features: Leading addiction, prevention, and treatment experts...

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Brenda Zane

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COVID-19: What To Do With Your Addicted Kid Now with Brenda Zane 02.05.2020 31:05

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Unfortunately, the opioid epidemic didn't take a time-out when COVID-19 hit. Kids are still taking pills, shooting up, nodding off, overdosing. For parents of teens and young adults who are addicted to drugs or alcohol this time is unbearably hard. This episode starts with a quick look at the COVID-19 health impact relative to the opioid epidemic and then provides 5 practic...

Common Addiction-Related Personality Traits & Disorders to Keep An Eye On with Brenda Zane 22.04.2020 27:32

ABOUT THE EPISODE: In this solo episode, I share common traits and disorders that I consistently hear about from parents who have kids with substance use disorder. Sometimes after describing my son and some of our challenges a mom or dad will look incredulous and say, "You just described my kid - to a T!" While I'm not a doctor, psychologist, or therapist I am a seasoned parent who...

Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction: Author, A House on Stilts, Paula Becker 15.04.2020 1:06:44

ABOUT THE EPISODE: In this emotional, eye-opening episode, author Paula Becker shares about the process of writing a memoir and book that is so intensely personal. A House on Stilts is her memoir depicting life with her son Hunter, who battled an addiction to opioids, and who ultimately lost his battle in a tragic, non-drug-related accident. Paula bravely shares: the process of writing a book so p...

When Your Sibling Has Substance Use Issues; Finding Sanity And Practicing Self-Care, with Tina Jayes 09.04.2020 1:00:09

ABOUT THE EPISODE: In this special episode, I talk with my dear college friend Tina Jayes about growing up as the sibling in a house where her brother was addicted to drugs and the dysfunction of that combined with an alcoholic mom and little supervision or money. She shares so much: the heartbreak of losing her adored, older brother to an overdose how a lack of resources contributed to keeping...

Beyond Addiction’s Carrie Wilkens: Using Science And Kindness As Motivation For Change In Your Child's Substance Use 20.02.2020 1:05:57

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Carrie Wilkens is co-author of Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change. It's the defacto-book recommended by therapists, treatment centers, and parents around the world when they need help with a loved one with substance use disorder. Carrie is down-to-earth, a straight-shooter, and unbelievably knowledgeable about all-things addiction and how we need...

Teens, Addiction, Residential Care & Natural Highs with Derek Bowles 23.01.2020 1:09:53

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Derek Bowles knows a LOT about teens, addiction, substances, and the residential care kids sometimes need when local resources aren't working. Derek founded Crossroads Academy in Ogden, Utah over 13 years ago to serve as a place where adolescent boys who are struggling with substance misuse can get away from their home environment (and all that comes with it) and experience...

The Story Behind the Podcast; A Teen's Addiction, Four Rehabs, Two Overdoses and Hope 08.01.2020 56:49

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Behind the closed doors of too many homes are families being upended by a young person's substance use. It may be your 14-year-old son experimenting with pot for the first time, your 17-year-old daughter drinking till she blacks out or your 23-year-old who's smoking Percocet, Xanax, and fentanyl regularly. And behind these kids are the parents. Worried, exasperated, d...