Living While Loving Your Child Through Addiction

Heather Ross

Booking Overview

This is a solo-expert and interview podcast focused on helping parents maintain connection, boundaries, and well-being while supporting a child with addiction; external episodes typically feature parents sharing recovery journeys and family-support facilitators. Suitable pitches include parents with compelling lived-experience stories, family-recovery coaches, and practitioners trained in CRAFT, Invitation to Change, Motivational Interviewing, or harm reduction. Booking difficulty is low because the show prioritizes accessible professionals and credible lived experience over high public prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 143

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

heather@heatherrosscoaching.com

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Host

Heather Ross - A mother and recovery coach who helps parents navigate a child's addiction through compassionate, evidence-based approaches focused on relationship repair, family well-being, and practical support.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Lived experience as a parent or family member supporting someone with substance use disorder, or professional experience in family recovery, CRAFT, Invitation to Change, Motivational Interviewing, harm reduction, or related support services.

Required Achievements:

Compelling family recovery experience, Training or facilitation in CRAFT, Invitation to Change, or Motivational Interviewing, Leadership of family-support groups or recovery-coaching services

Recent Guest Discussions

Sheree Stilwell - Recovery After Repeated Treatment Attempts, CRAFT, Invitation To Change, Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, Trauma-informed Family Support, And Maintaining Connection During Active Substance Use And Relapse.

Recent Topics

Addiction, Family Recovery, Craft, Harm Reduction, Parenting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Living While Loving Your Child Through Addiction

EP 139 Rock Bottom Is Not a Plan: What Actually Helps Create Change

August 22, 2026

Rock bottom is a high-risk gamble - not a reliable recovery plan.Families are often told that a person must experience enough pain and loss before they will become willing to change. But substance use disorder itself involves continuing to use despite serious negative consequences - so why would more consequences alone reliably create recovery?In this episode, Heather explores research suggesting that turning points are not simply caused by external losses. They happen through an internal con...

EP 138 Becoming The Safe Person Your Child Calls For Help With Kelly Krehbiel

August 07, 2026

What happens when everything you've been told to do isn't working?For years, Kelly believed she had to be the strong parent who held firm boundaries, enforced consequences, and tried to control her son's substance use. The harder she tried, the more he retreated and hid.Everything changed when Kelly discovered CRAFT and began learning a science-based, compassionate approach to addiction. Instead of trying to control her son's choices, she learned how to change the way she resp...

EP 137 After 30+ Treatment Attempts, She Never Stopped Believing Guest Sheree Stilwell

July 22, 2026

What do you do when your child has been to treatment over 30 times and nothing seems to work?Many parents eventually lose hope because they're exhausted, terrified, and have been told that tough love is the only answer.In this episode of the Recovery Through Relationship series, Heather talks with Sheree Stillwell, whose son struggled with substance use disorder for more than twenty years. During that time he experienced homelessness, repeated treatment attempts, trauma, relapse, and years of...

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