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Hosted by Brenda Zane · kids · EN-US · 346 episodes
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 Real stories from families who've been there Evidence-based strategies for helping your child Self-care and coping tools for parents Deeper conversations about finding meaning, joy, and even unexpected blessings through the hardest times Whether you're dealing with a teen or young adult's drug use, alcohol
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhen 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.
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health is hosted by Brenda Zane. The show has published 346 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Strategies For Parenting A Stuck Young Adult, with Kim Muench" (15 October 2026, 55 minutes), "The Surprising Power Of Non-Reactivity, with Cathy Cioth" (1 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "What Recovery Looks Like For Parents, with Janice" (24 September 2026, 61 minutes).
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 346 episodes.
Booking probability for Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health are Family & Social Services. Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health has a kids audience.
Brenda Zane hosts Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health, a kids show with 346 episodes published.
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Episode #347
ABOUT THE EPISODE: You have probably been scanning for it for a while. The one consequence that will finally get your 25-year-old out of their room and into a life that looks like forward motion. You can't ground them...
Episode #345
ABOUT THE EPISODE: The morning of our move, the pods were in the driveway, my dad had shown up ready to work, and my son was barely awake and in no shape to lift a box. Half an hour in, he asked if we were almost done...
Episode #344
ABOUT THE EPISODE: If you’re parenting a young person struggling with substance and someone tells you that you need recovery too, it can land sideways since you're not the one using. You're just trying to hold...
Episode #343
ABOUT THE EPISODE: You’ve heard some version of it: Leave me alone! I know what I am doing! You don't understand me!” Ciara Fanlo said all of that to her mother, but what her mom didn’t know was that those statements...
Episode #342
ABOUT THE EPISODE: You might already know what needs to change - or at least that something definitely needs to change in the dynamic with your child. Underneath the crisis calls, the covered debts, the conversations...
Episode #341
ABOUT THE EPISODE: You‘ve probably watched your child make a decision so obviously terrible you could not understand how it made sense to them. Darren Hobbs can tell you exactly how it looked, because he made that...
Episode #338
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Your kid has been to a program. Maybe two. Maybe four. Each one handed back a diagnosis list a little longer than the last, and none of it ever explained why nothing is sticking. My guest uses a...
Episode #336
ABOUT THE EPISODE: You have probably rehearsed the apology. I'm sorry I didn't catch this sooner. I'm sorry I wasn't a better parent. I'm sorry this is happening to you. If some version of that speech runs on a loop in...
Episode #335
ABOUT THE EPISODE: There's an emotion most of us are carrying that we don't talk about, because we're pretty sure we're not allowed to feel it. Anger. Anger at where our kid's choices have led our family. Anger at what...
Episode #334
ABOUT THE EPISODE: This episode is long overdue, and I know many of you have been waiting for it. Over the past two to three years, the conversations in our community have shifted. It used to be all about opiates and...
Episode #332
Trigger Warning: this episode discusses loss of a child due to substance use. Please decide if this is the right time to listen. A few weeks before this episode was recorded, one of the moms in our community lost her...
Episode #331
When Beth Hillman's son came home from wilderness treatment, the first crisis didn’t come from him. It came from her. Standing in the driveway, anxious and spiraling, she watched her teenage son look at her calmly and...
Episode #330
ABOUT THE EPISODE: There are days in this journey when the weight of it all becomes almost too much to carry. You are still showing up, still trying, still breathing through a kind of pain most people around you will...
Episode #329
When my son Enzo was using fentanyl and Xanax and blowing up every structure I tried to build around him, I kept asking the wrong question. What I wasn’t asking was what was happening inside him that he couldn’t put...
Episode #328
ABOUT THE EPISODE: There are moments in this journey when your coach isn't available, your therapist can't be reached, and the community is quiet. It's just you and whatever is unfolding in your relationship with your...
Episode #327
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Dr. Wes Robins sent me a text a few weeks ago, and I stopped what I was doing and read it twice. It was a piece he had written at his kitchen table while his daughters worked on an art project beside...
Episode #326
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Lacey Tezino grew up believing her biological mother was dead. That’s what her family told her in the ‘80s when she was adopted, and she carried that story until she was 19 years old. Hungover on just...
Episode #325
ABOUT THE EPISODE: Brad was 17, sitting in a psych ward for the second time, when a stranger told him about a program in Tennessee. He said no. He ran from a rest stop on the highway, and the police caught him a few...
Episode #325
<p><b>ABOUT THE EPISODE:</b></p><p>Brad was 17, sitting in a psych ward for the second time, when a stranger told him about a program in Tennessee. He said no. He ran from a rest stop on the highway, and the police...
Episode #324
<p><b>ABOUT THE EPISODE:</b></p><p>Rawly Glass grew up in a home full of violence. At 16, he made a pact that he would figure out how to do things differently. He earned a master's in social work, built a career in...
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