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Ep. 103 How to Connect with an Addicted Love One with PEACE w/ Michelle Weidenbenner

https://play.goldenmicpodcast.com/0103_weidenbenner

"If you can recapture your identity and purpose, you will find joy." - Michelle Weidenbenner

Michelle belonged to a great family - a family who supported her, provided the means for her to attend a great school, and provided her with the spiritual scaffolding to believe in something greater than herself. It was a perfect template to use as she became a mother of three. But it was with her son Ryan that providing wasn't enough. At first, Ryan was drinking with his friends in high school which could be seen as fairly innocuous since so many people drink in high school.

But down the line, drinking became more frequent and a heavy heroin and meth addition for Michelle's oldest son. Soon Michelle was struggling to understand her role as a parent and someone who didn't want to enable her son. She attended ALANON meetings but they didn't seem to land.

As she began to grow from her experience, Michelle wrote the book, Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up: Seven Steps to Self-Recovery. She knew she was on to something as she was flooded with thank you's from parents who struggled with the same issues. She created a Facebook group for families to know that they aren't alone.

And she'll be sharing her experience, strength and hope at TEDxFaurotPark with her talk How to Connect with an Addicted Loved One with PEACE.

Click here to watch her talk.

If you love this episode, you'll love Ep. 86 Addiction, Roller Derby & Coming Home w/ Carry Dodge aka TorcHer.

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