shattering the youth treatment mold and getting real about drugs, alcohol and mental health, with Wes Robins & Zac Sweat of Eternal Strength
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Guests: Wes Robins & Zac Sweat of Eternal Strength
Show Resources:
Success is Subjective Podcast - Episode 63: deeper background on Wes and Zac
Gabor Mate’ - In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts and website
Dr. Shefali Tsabary, The Awakened Family & The Conscious Parent
Antipsychiatry - Roswell, GA
Ritual Zero-Proof Spirit Alternatives
Seedlip Non-Alcoholic Spirits
Show Notes:
SPEAKERS
Brenda Zane, Wes Robins, Zac Sweat
Episode topics: parenting, teens, mental health, family, addiction, recovery, substance use
0:00 Intros, background on Wes & Zac
9:24 Thoughts on the current adolescent treatment space and options
15:18 Has the treatment world kept up with the real world kids are living in today?
17:11 The radical pilgrimage of growth at Eternal Strength
25:13 How treatment can not feel like treatment
32:39 Levels and types of support provided at Eternal Strength
35:06 When it makes sense to think about care outside the home and a note about wilderness therapy
38:56 What role self-care plays in the treatment decision
40:52 When parents are afraid to parent and sub-contract the role to others
41:33 Parents doing their own work and the families that end up doing the best
44:28 Recommendations for parents who are in crisis right now
48:28 Kahlil Gibran's poem, On Children
51:14 But what about the reality of fentanyl?
55:38 Why boundaries are important, no matter what happens
59:03 Wes and Zac's billboard & their newly opened sacred space
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