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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 142: Kayce Hughlett Talks About Her Differently Wired Son's Drug Use

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Author, coach, and mother Kayce Hughlett shares the story of how she handled, processed, and grew through her differently wired (ADHD) son's struggles with drugs when he was a teenager. Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

Are they also struggling in their current educational setting, seen only for what they're doing wrong, while longing for positive relationships with peers and

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others?

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like that. Through its innovative approach that aims to empower students, families, educators, and professionals

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Be a part of shaping a brighter future for your child.

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to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.

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0:55.0

He was looking for real connection.

1:00.0

And it looks weird that you think it's real connection while he's

1:04.6

disconnecting with drugs and alcohol and that what he was really looking for was

1:11.4

real connection I I think. And we were giving him this

1:16.4

parental mumbo jumbo that he couldn't connect with. Welcome to Till Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring,

1:30.0

informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

1:33.9

My name is Debbie Reber and today's episode is a powerful, heartfelt conversation that I am honored

1:40.0

to share with you.

1:41.4

I'm talking with my friend Casey Stephen's Hewlett, a psychotherapist, life coach, spiritual director, and speaker, and the author of three books, As I lay pondering, daily invitations to live a transformed life, her novel Blue, and her

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