Beyond Addiction’s Carrie Wilkens: Using Science And Kindness As Motivation For Change In Your Child’s Substance Use

ABOUT THE EPISODE:
Carrie Wilkens is co-author of Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change. It's the defacto-book recommended by therapists, treatment centers, and parents around the world when they need help with a loved one with substance use disorder. Carrie is down-to-earth, a straight-shooter, and unbelievably knowledgeable about all-things addiction and how we need to change ourselves in order to help our loved ones change. 

This powerful episode will help you understand:

• enabling versus supporting and what that looks like
• how to let your child suffer the natural consequences of their actions, and when it might be good to step in
• relapse and how it can really be an opportunity to learn versus to look at it as a major setback
• alternatives to 12-step programs if they're not working
• why total abstinence may not be the answer
• how to have realistic expectations of treatment for your child

So for those of you in the thick of it, you will totally relate with and learn SO much from this special and important episode with Carrie Wilkens.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Carrie Wilkens, Ph.D., CMC Foundation for Change
• Beyond Addiction, How Science and Kindness Help People Change
• The 20 Minute Guide, the parent workbook that distills motivational strategies and CRAFT concepts down into a quick and easy workbook format. Access all of the sessions are free or you can purchase the workbook in a variety of formats at this link. 
• The Center for Motivation and Change Newsletter
• Additional CRAFT Resources:
  https://www.smartrecovery.org/family/
  https://www.soberfamilies.com/podcasts

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