Parenting Your Teen Through Addiction Recovery: How to Protect Your Home, Rebuild Trust, and Guide Your Teen Through Their Recovery
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Parenting Your Teen Through Addiction Recovery: How to Protect Your Home, Rebuild Trust, and Guide Your Teen Through Their Recovery
Sale price
$21.99
Regular price $26.99
Can they go out tonight? Should you search the backpack? Are you supposed to punish, protect, or just hold them — and how are you supposed to know which, right now, tonight?
One day, you're managing the normal chaos of raising a teenager: grades, curfews, friends, attitude. Then a vape is discovered. Pills are missing. A school calls. A counselor uses a word you weren't ready to hear. And every parenting instinct that worked for sixteen years suddenly isn't big enough for what's in front of you.
Parenting Your Teen Through Addiction Recovery is not a recovery memoir, a clinical manual, or a teen workbook. Your teen's treatment team handles diagnosis, therapy, and relapse prevention. This book addresses the one part of recovery no provider can do for you: leading the home your teen returns to every single day.
This book is for the parent who is tired of swinging between panic and permissiveness.
It's for the parent who wants to say "I love you" and also "No, that isn't safe" — in the same conversation, without flinching.
And it's for the parent who has already made mistakes. Maybe you were too soft because you wanted peace. Maybe you were too harsh because you were terrified. Either way, you can begin again from here — not with perfection, but with leadership.
Inside, you'll build a parent-leadership system across eight sections:
One day, you're managing the normal chaos of raising a teenager: grades, curfews, friends, attitude. Then a vape is discovered. Pills are missing. A school calls. A counselor uses a word you weren't ready to hear. And every parenting instinct that worked for sixteen years suddenly isn't big enough for what's in front of you.
Parenting Your Teen Through Addiction Recovery is not a recovery memoir, a clinical manual, or a teen workbook. Your teen's treatment team handles diagnosis, therapy, and relapse prevention. This book addresses the one part of recovery no provider can do for you: leading the home your teen returns to every single day.
This book is for the parent who is tired of swinging between panic and permissiveness.
It's for the parent who wants to say "I love you" and also "No, that isn't safe" — in the same conversation, without flinching.
And it's for the parent who has already made mistakes. Maybe you were too soft because you wanted peace. Maybe you were too harsh because you were terrified. Either way, you can begin again from here — not with perfection, but with leadership.
Inside, you'll build a parent-leadership system across eight sections:
- The Recovery Authority Foundation — trade fear-driven reactions for one steady house standard you can return to under pressure
- The Recovery Parenting Unit — stop relapse from finding the cracks between two adults who disagree
- Boundaries That Support Sobriety — curfews, money, rides, and friends, recalibrated for recovery instead of ordinary adolescence
- Recovery Conversations Parents Must Lead — language that lowers defensiveness instead of triggering it
- Digital Authority in a Recovery World — what to do when an old group chat becomes the highest-risk room in your teen's life
- Crisis Prevention and Relapse Pattern Recognition — most relapses have a runway; learn to read it before the crash
- Growing Into Recovery Independence — a freedom ladder that earns back trust in stages, not all at once
- The Recovery Parent Reset Plan — exactly what to do after a lie, a slip, or a full relapse