224: Parenting a Child with Addiction with Steve D.
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As a parent, how do you deal with a child who’s struggling with addiction? How can you fully support your kid at this most trying time of their lives? Today, Duane speaks with Steve D. about parenting a child with addiction. A father of five children, the youngest of whom had a near-lethal addiction to alcohol, Steve retired from a 30-year career on Wall Street to learn about addiction, to help his family, and to help others.
Steve’s eight-year journey includes getting trained as a parent peer addiction coach, completing a fellowship at Harvard University studying addiction, co-creating a podcast called My Child & Addiction and volunteering at a national addiction nonprofit to create educational tools for families. Recently, he developed a free resource, Love the Kid, Hate the Disease, with a mission to deliver the most important information, concepts, tools, and personal experiences from his 8 years of dealing with addiction to help parents and caregivers better understand the disease and help address it.
Steve is the EVP for Shatterproof, a nonprofit with a mission to help businesses and communities educate their constituencies about the disease of addiction and the most effective, evidence-based treatment practices.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Understanding that there is hope
- The importance of setting boundaries
- His child’s addiction and recovery journey
- The importance of telling personal stories about addiction
- The value of a parent support group meeting
- The power of sharing your story
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Supporting Resources:
Shatterproof
My Child & Addiction
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-child-addiction/id1233772510
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Addicted Mind podcast. My name is Dwayne |
| 0:11.3 | Austerlund, and I'm your host. Today, our guest is Stephen D. And he is going to talk about a very |
| 0:19.8 | important topic, parenting a child with addiction. |
| 0:23.6 | Stephen D. is the father of five children, the youngest of whom had a near lethal addiction to alcohol. |
| 0:29.6 | Steve retired from a 30-year career on Wall Street to learn about addiction, to help his family, and to help others. |
| 0:36.6 | His eight-year journey |
| 0:37.8 | includes getting trained as a parent-peer addiction coach, completing a fellowship at Harvard |
| 0:42.9 | University studying addiction, co-creating a podcast called My Child an Addiction, and volunteering |
| 0:48.6 | at a national addiction nonprofit to create educational tools for families. He is the author of Love the Kid, Hate the Disease, |
| 0:57.0 | Lessons Learned from a father dealing with his son's addiction, and a website called |
| 1:01.6 | AddictionLessons.com, a website dedicated to sharing the best of what he learned to help other |
| 1:07.8 | parents. So Steve is going to share a little bit of his own story and the |
| 1:11.9 | lessons he learned along the way. Before we start, I want to thank everyone who has left a review |
| 1:17.2 | on iTunes. I really do appreciate it. It means so much to me to know that the Addicted Mind podcast |
| 1:23.8 | is having a real positive effect on so many people. It really blows me away. When I started |
| 1:30.3 | this podcast, I didn't realize the impact it would have. And I am so touched that this podcast |
| 1:36.3 | has helped so many people. So if it's helping you think about writing a review, I really appreciate it. |
| 1:43.3 | And also, you can now find us on Instagram at |
| 1:47.4 | The Addicted Mind podcast. So check that out as well. All right, all my wonderful listeners, |
| 1:53.0 | stay tuned for this episode. All right, everyone, we have Steve D on the podcast today, and we're going to talk about, I think, a very critical topic. |
| 2:08.6 | And that's parenting a child with addiction. |
| 2:13.0 | And Steve is going to share some of his story and some of the lessons that he's learned in going |
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