Coaching episode: Navigating Life Post-Treatment: Boundaries With A College Age Son, Lots Of Advice And Re-Focusing On Self Care

ABOUT THE EPISODE:
This coaching episode covers a lot of ground with a mom who is doing so much right, yet she questions her actions due to lots of advice from others, her mom-intuition and the heightened sense of urgency from her nephew's recent fatal fentanyl poisoning.

This mom and member of The Stream Community is co-parenting her college-age son with her ex-husband and while they're not in total alignment with each other their son seems to be doing "ok" at the time. But because she knows he's using substances while he's away at college, she wonders what to do.

Listen in to hear how:

• after going to wilderness therapy and boarding school, her son is still misusing substances
• she's learned to set and communicate her boundaries when her son comes home from college
• mom wonders if she should be more forceful - or back off - about her son getting therapy or more treatment
• her son isn't experiencing too many negative consequences, so what can she do?
• parents who have already paid a lot for treatment can maximize their investment
• we talk about what happens if her son violates her boundaries, but she still wants to spend time with him
• mom has a goal of getting over her night terrors
• the loss of her nephew to a fentanyl poisoning is impacting her decisions 

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