117: Mental Health and Addiction with Aaron Huey

Disclaimer: This episode talks about mental health, addiction, sexual assault and suicide.

Episode Pointers:

Take care of yourself. Self-care is all you can truly model for your children. Everything that crumbles or catapults you into guilt and shame comes from a lack of self care and lack of adult relationships.There are 5 things a parent can do when their child has spun so completely out of control. They are :  sleep, drink water, have healthy nutritious meals, move your body and breathe on purpose. 

Without any of these 5 things, your system begins to domino and collapse.

Our desire to avoid the pain is so overwhelming. We will cause more pain in the long term to avoid it in the short term.We are dealing with solutions, not problems. The focus has been wrong.You're not gonna get over, you will get on, you will get through, you carry this with you.Being alone is one of the first signs that you're in an addictive patternThe hole doesn't go away and you'll learn to live with it.The healing doesn't mean that the hole has closed. 

His book recommendations :

The Slight Edge by Jeff OIsonA Guide to the Gods by Richard Carlyon

Connect with Aaron through his :

Website : www.firemountainprograms.comInstagram : https://www.instagram.com/firemountaintreatmentcenter/Facebook Group : Parenting Teens that StrugglePodcast : Beyond Risk and Back

If you want to dive deeper and have a coach who understands grief, and triggers, and what it’s like to be walking with child loss grief, message me at [email protected] and we can chat about how I can help you on your grief journey.

If you want more tools to help you, I have a workshop called Stop Talking Start Feeling, it’s a workshop that dives into emotions, what they are, and how you can begin to feel and process them and get them out of your body instead of stuffing them down. It also goes specifically into processing and releasing the emotions of guilt and sadness. You can get access to this workshop and all the extra things I have in there for only $27. Go to www.stoptalkingstartfeeling.com to check it out. 

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