How to Help a Loved One with Addiction featuring Heather Ross

Alcohol Tipping Point

Listen to this episode if you have ever loved someone who has struggled with substances. Heather Ross, the host of the Living With Your Child’s Addiction Podcast joins the show. Heather is a CRAFT trained mother of a child who struggled with addiction and a Certified Parent Support Coach. CRAFT is a system for helping friends and family members change the way that they interact with someone they love who is drinking or using drugs too much.

We talk about:

• Heather’s experience with her daughter who had substance use disorder
• How Heather healed her relationship with her daughter
• How you can help someone who is struggling
• Why your own self-care isn’t selfish
• What CRAFT is and how it can help
• Why the word “enabling” should be removed from your vocabulary
• The controversy of “tough love”
• How to help someone in denial
• And much more....

Find Heather:

Website: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-with-your-childs-addiction/id1543141299

Heather’s free guide A New Perspective About "Enabling" Answers For Parents Who Want To Help Their Child But Don't Know How: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/perspective-about-enabling/

Resources for helping friends and families of loved ones with addiction:

Book: Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change: Foote, Jeffrey, Wilkens, Carrie, Kosanke, Nicole, Higgs, Stephanie: 0884494151970: Amazon.com: Books

CRAFT website: https://helpingfamilieshelp.com/about-craft

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