Podcast episode where I’m a guest
Would you like the peace that comes from understanding and acceptance about your child’s substance use?
The number one thing parents tell me they want for themselves is peace.
Even though my interviews revolve around my story each one brings out different parts of my experience.
When I was interviewed by Cathy Taughinbaugh for her YouTube channel the theme of peace and acceptance emerged.
Enabling, stigma, boundaries, self-care, and the importance of the words we use when talking about substance use are a few of the topics we covered in the Sun & Moon Sober Living Podcast episode. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/45-how-to-support-a-loved-one-struggling-with/id1603805157?i=1000598465286 Listen on Spotify:
We discuss how CRAFT (community reinforcement and family training) and Invitation to Change models support your loved one (and yourself) struggling with substance use disorder. The CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) program is a non-confrontational, evidence-based intervention for helping families affected by addiction. It helps individuals develop effective strategies for helping a loved one struggling with substance use disorder seek treatment and cope.
In this episode of the Brain BS podcast I talked about grief around the holidays. The holidays are hard for many people. When you add grief on top of that it makes the holidays even more challenging. No matter what you’re going through this holiday season the most important things you can do are be gentle with yourself and resist judging how you feel. It’s ok not to be ok.
We discuss the importance of self-care in the grieving process. We focus on my grief from the loss of my daughter Helanna, but grieving is important for all losses. Grief is how you move through the painful gap between expectations and reality. Life is filled with all kinds of painful gaps. We need to acknowledge and grieve them in order to release resistance and move toward acceptance.
Heather and Helanna’s story was featured in a Boston Globe Artice. https://sponsored.bostonglobe.com/point32health/loved-ones-addiction/
Heather was recently a guest on the My Soul Life Podcast. Susan Scollen hosts the My Soul Life podcast so she can share the stories of everyday people who have shifter their lives, often through their own health and wellness journey, and are living in their authentic space. Listen Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/removing-the-stigma-of-addiction-with-heather-ross/id1533419497?i=1000581274227
Heather was on the Brain BS podcast for International Overdose Awarness Day. The Brain BS podcast is hosed by Maureen Kafkis who is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy and a Certified Life Coach. She brings her brain BS expertise and knowledge of thought work, emotional intelligence, and Universal Law together in a “spiripractical” way that …
I was recently a guest on the Brave Together Podcast. We Are Brave Together is a non-profit organization that provides a supportive community for moms of children with special healthcare needs. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to strengthen, inspire, educate and validate all Special Needs Moms in their unique and difficult journeys. …
In this episode Beth Syverson from Safe Home Podcast and I talk about losing a child to overdose. Beth did a beautiful job taking clips of my previous podcast episodes with my daughter Helanna and weaving them in with our conversation in a very powerful way. It’s more like a work of art than a …
Safe Home Podcast EP#34 Losing a Child to Addiction with Heather Ross Read More »
The Safe Home Podcast is for struggling teens and their families finding their healing path with addiction. 17yo Joey and his moms Beth and Jan share from the heart their experiences and struggles with addiction and mental health. I got the opportunity to coach Beth and Jan last year and watch them work hard on …
Welcome to this week’s episode of the StephUp Podcast! Thank you for your support and for coming back each week to listen. This episode features special guest Heather Ross of Heather Ross Coaching. Steph and Heather begin their conversation by talking about Heather’s background. She is a life coach who mainly works with parents who …
The struggle is Real podcast asked all of their season 1 guests to share what they learned in the last year. This episode is a complication of all the guests including me sharing what we learned in the last year. You can listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-one-wrapped-we-look-back-on-45-episodes-what/id1521443231?i=1000523487945 And on Spotify:
Do you experience envy and jealousy because of your child’s addiction? It’s easy to be jealous of other parents and how “normal” their lives are with their kids. Let’s face it, addiction robs us of a lot of experiences we expect to have with our kids. Addiction came into my family fast and changed my …
In this podcast episode Kerri Robertson and I talk about: How having a child with addiction requires you to heal yourself Confidence Setting boundaries Creating a better relationship with your child https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heather-ross-why-having-child-addiction-requires-your/id1530879043?i=1000516238405
I’m grateful that I live by my own advice. I do all the things that I share with you. Listening to this episode reminded me yet again how important that is. This was recorded in November of 2020. My daughter had just moved here after finishing rehab and I was on cloud 9. Since this …
The name of this podcast says it all, right? As soon as I saw the name , I reached out to the host Andrea Seydel. We did a fun switch and interviewed each other for our podcasts. The episode where she interviews me available now. I’m releasing my interview of her on Thursday. The podcast …
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Link to the Life Without Limits show where I was interviewed by Tom Russell on December 14th 2020. Click Here To Listen
How one Mum has used her own journey of dealing with her daughter’s drug addiction to help and support others going through the same. Heather Ross never dreamed she would find herself in many parents’ worst nightmare, discovering that her child was addicted to drugs that started like many teenagers with pot and drinking but …
A few weeks ago I talked with Monica from Front Seat, The Road Back To You Podcast. I loved the name of her podcast because that’s what my journey with my daughter’s addiction has been, a road back to me. Through trying to understand my daughter and her addiction, I came to understand myself. …