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When your loved one is struggling with addiction, the idea of setting boundaries can feel impossible. You want to keep your home safe, protect your own well-being, and still hold on to the relationship. This episode helps you understand how boundaries can stop being a constant battle and start becoming a lifeline for your sanity, safety, and connection.

• You’ll learn the difference between boundaries that punish and boundaries that protect.
• You’ll discover how to set limits that come from a place of calm, not anger or ultimatums.
• You’ll gain practical ways to create boundaries you can actually live with—while keeping the relationship with your child alive.

Press play now to learn how to set boundaries that protect your peace, preserve connection, and give you back a sense of control in your family’s recovery journey.

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Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

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👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

Are you unknowingly pushing your loved one further away in their recovery journey?

When someone you care about is struggling with substance use, it’s natural to want to “fix” things—but pushing often creates resistance. This episode explores a more effective and compassionate approach: motivational interviewing, a way of connecting that builds trust, respect, and openness while encouraging real change.

• Discover the four essential skills of motivational interviewing—open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarizing—and how to use them at home.
• Learn how these skills align with Indigenous wisdom to support healing in a natural, culturally respectful way.
• Understand why affirming your loved one’s character, not just their actions, can ignite genuine motivation for recovery.

Listen now to learn practical, relationship-strengthening strategies you can start using today to support your loved one’s recovery with empathy and respect.

Book mentioned on episode: Motivational Interviewing https://www.amazon.com.au/Motivational-Interviewing-Helping-People-Change/dp/146255279X

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

Are you running on empty while trying to care for someone you love?

When you’re constantly giving your time, energy, and heart to support someone else, it’s easy to forget that your own wellbeing matters. But just like a car can’t run without fuel, neither can you — and pushing through on fumes only leads to burnout and breakdown.

• Discover why pausing for even a single deep breath can begin to restore your strength.
• Learn simple ways to “top up your tank” in everyday moments without guilt.
• Understand how caring for yourself actually helps you love others more fully.

Press play now to find out how to refill your own tank so you can keep showing up with strength, clarity, and compassion when it matters most.

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

What do you do when your child wants to return to a relationship that nearly destroyed them?

If you're a parent navigating the storm of addiction recovery, you're likely familiar with the fear that resurfaces when your child makes risky choices. This episode dives into a heart-wrenching scenario that many parents face—how to respond when your child wants to go back to a dangerous partner. Through a powerful role play based on a real-life event, you'll gain insight into the emotional turmoil and learn a new path forward that builds connection instead of conflict.

• Discover why trying to control your child often backfires and what to do instead.
• Learn how expressing love and offering choice can lead to surprising breakthroughs.
• Hear the hopeful outcome of a parent who chose connection over control—and how it changed everything.

Press play now to hear a raw, honest conversation that just might shift the way you support your child in recovery.

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

Are you running on empty trying to support a loved one through addiction?

If you're a parent or caregiver overwhelmed by fear, shame, and emotional exhaustion, this episode reveals why traditional self-sacrifice isn't sustainable—and how mindfulness can offer a radical shift. Discover how nurturing your own inner calm can be the key to showing up stronger and more grounded for those you love.

• Learn how simple mindfulness practices can help you pause, reset, and avoid reactive parenting in crisis moments.
• Discover powerful self-care tools that help you cope with emotional overwhelm without needing hours of spare time.
• Understand the vital connection between your personal wellbeing and your ability to support someone in addiction recovery.

Press play now to reclaim your calm and strength with real-world mindfulness tools that support both you and your loved ones.

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

Have you ever felt truly seen without saying a single word?

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

In a world that often demands we explain ourselves, moments of quiet recognition can be rare — yet they carry the power to remind us we belong. This episode explores how a simple exchange with a Cree elder and a braid of sweetgrass unlocked a sense of connection, healing, and welcome that words alone couldn’t capture.

• Discover how small gestures can bridge lifetimes of distance and loss.
• Learn why sensory experiences, like scent, can evoke deep emotional recognition.
• Be reminded that belonging isn’t always found in big events, but in the tender, unguarded moments.

Press play and let this story renew your belief that you can be seen, understood, and welcomed — without having to explain yourself.

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

What happens when your instinct to confront your child about substance use only pushes them further away?

If you're a parent grappling with fear, frustration, and confusion while your child struggles with addiction, you're not alone—and your first response might not be helping. This episode offers a raw, relatable look into why traditional confrontational tactics often fail and how a simple shift in communication can start rebuilding trust.

• Hear a realistic father-son role play that reveals how fear-fueled reactions escalate conflict.
• Discover what a support call with a counselor sounds like as they unpack how fear affects parenting responses.
• Learn how connection-focused communication can transform tension into trust—even when things seem broken beyond repair.

Tune in to hear how a struggling father learns to replace fear with empathy—and see what happens when he tries again with a calmer, connection-first approach.

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This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.

NEW Announcement: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction. familyhopesupport.com

How do you support a loved one struggling with addiction when generations of trauma are silently shaping their path?

Many families grappling with a loved one’s substance use face not just addiction, but also the ripple effects of intergenerational trauma. This episode explores how healing can begin when cultural identity, compassion, and individualized support come together—especially within Indigenous communities impacted by deep historical wounds.

• Discover how Shelly Shadow, a Cree recovery coach, reclaimed her cultural roots and used them to transform her healing journey.
• Learn why conventional ideas about enabling may not apply and how intuition can be a vital guide for families.
• Understand the power of culturally rooted practices like smudging and the wisdom of the medicine wheel in supporting recovery.

Listen now to uncover how Shelly’s story offers hope, tools, and a new lens for families supporting a loved one through addiction and trauma.

🌱 Family Hope Support — Special Offer for Podcast Listeners

Loving someone with a drug or alcohol problem can feel exhausting — the worry, the guilt, the sleepless nights. It wears you down.

Family Hope Support offers one-to-one support sessions grounded in real lived experience. Finally get the care & help you need to navigate a loved one's addiction.

🎉: Family Support Listeners Get 30% off every one-to-one support session with Paul King. — use code FAMILYHOPE at checkout.

👉 Claim your discount at familyhopesupport.com and start feeling less alone. You don’t have to do this by yourself.

This podcast provides practical guidance and support for families navigating the challenges of substance abuse disorder, offering insights from addiction recovery experts, family therapy, and support groups like Al-Anon and Family Drug Support, with a focus on understanding how to help and support loved ones dealing with addiction, including heroin addiction, through counselling and treatment options.

DISCLAIMER

Every family is different — if you’re supporting someone through addiction, please make decisions that are right for you, ideally in consultation with qualified professionals and appropriate support networks.