4 Things You’re Probably Googling if Your Child Struggles With Substances, with Cathy Cioth
Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental HealthShow Notes
ABOUT THE EPISODE: There is a specific kind of searching that happens at 2am when you are a parent in the thick of it, typing symptoms and half-formed fears into a search bar because you cannot say them out loud to anyone in your life. My cofounder Cathy Cioth knows exactly what that feels like, and in this conversation, we sit down to answer the questions we hear most from parents in our community, including the ones that tend to arrive with a quiet residue of shame just for asking. We start...
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