Skip to main content
Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up

Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up

By Michelle Weidenbenner

If you're the mom of addicted loved one and need help understand what's happening to your child, or how to recover from the addiction chaos, join us here for support.
As the mother of a recovering addict, I've spent years trying to cope with this devastating disease. I used to search for others to help me, but couldn't find what I was looking for.
Now I'm focused on comforting moms, like you, by sharing what I needed -- bringing you hope and a way to recapture you.

Michelle@MichelleWeidenbenner.com
@ChiefHopeBuilder
MomsLettingGo.com
Available on
Apple Podcasts Logo
Google Podcasts Logo
Overcast Logo
Pocket Casts Logo
RadioPublic Logo
Spotify Logo
Currently playing episode

How to Clear Your CRAP, with Daphne V. Smith

Moms Letting Go Without Giving UpNov 26, 2021

00:00
51:26
Day 17: Open Your Eyes with Lucretia
Jun 02, 202322:28
DAY 16: Assess Your Pain with Sandy
May 30, 202318:02
DAY 15: Energy, Allocate Your Attention
May 26, 202321:13
Day 14: Agency, Choose Your Inputs
May 19, 202317:13
PART THREE: Deliberate MOM Focus Day 13: Urgency, Creating Your Space
May 16, 202317:21
DAY 12: Discover Your Hope
May 12, 202320:50
DAY 11: Dissect a Hope Hero
May 09, 202315:27
DAY 10: Create Your Boon Road Map
May 05, 202322:19
DAY 9: Strengthen Your Posture
May 02, 202315:38
DAY 8: Track Your Progress
Apr 28, 202316:53
DAY SEVEN: Inventory Your Value
Apr 25, 202317:01
DAY SIX: Claim Your Promise
Apr 21, 202315:32
DAY FIVE: Count Your Cost
Apr 18, 202319:02
DAY FOUR: Seize Your Saboteur
Apr 14, 202328:36
Day 3: Identify Your Enemy with Sandy Carmichael
Apr 11, 202318:13
DAY TWO: Pick Your Boon
Apr 07, 202317:29
Unhackable Moms of Addicted Loved Ones, Day One with Brooke and Michelle
Apr 04, 202316:47
STEP SEVEN: Flowering, Helping Others and Living a New Life
Mar 08, 202321:08
How to Get Your Loved One Into Recovery
Mar 07, 202322:49
Interview with Author, Speaker and Trauma Expert, Jodee Gibson
Dec 09, 202233:56
STEP SEVEN: Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Seven Steps to Self-Recovery
Dec 04, 202221:08
Meet Nic Patterson, a Hope Hero
Nov 19, 202253:50
Interview with Catherine Becker, Founder of Joys and Challenges of Relative Caregivers
Nov 12, 202230:51
STEP Six: Budding: Progress, Reflection, and Vision
Nov 05, 202218:08
Step Five: Strengthening and Implementing the Plan
Oct 19, 202219:42
Step Four Reaching Up for a New Leaf on Life: Creating the Plan
Oct 04, 202223:03
Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Step Three - The Second Part

Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Step Three - The Second Part

Book Study on the book, Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Seven Steps to Self-Recovery

BREAKING OUT: Inner Dialogue, Step 3 - Part Two

Byron Katie's book, Loving What Is, Four Questions that Can Change Your Life

Learn the four questions to ask yourself that might free you from worry.

Aug 28, 202225:51
Interview with Beth Syverson with SAFE HOME Podcast

Interview with Beth Syverson with SAFE HOME Podcast

https://www.safehomefamilies.com

Interview with Beth Syverson  

Beth is a mom, wife, musician, and as of 2021 a podcaster, activist, and public speaker. Since 2019, her son Joey has struggled with addiction to substances plus serious mental health issues. For the first year of that roller coaster ride, she and Joey were both derailed. Beth tried to “fix” Joey and her Supermom cape was tied on tight. 

But when nothing worked to “fix” him, she sought help for herself, which improved her own life and also her relationship to her wife Jan and to Joey. She and Joey created Safe Home Podcast in August 2021, with the purpose of helping other families avoid some of the pain we’ve experienced. 

“Pain that’s not transformed gets transmitted.” 

We are trying to transform our pain into practical guidance for other families with struggling teens. Beth adopted Joey from Japan when he was 7-1/2 months old. 

We now realize that his relinquishment trauma is the core issue that caused him to seek substances. 

Beth is a leader for other adoptive parents who are coming “out of the fog” and realizing that the adoption that created their family also created trauma for their child. Contact Beth directly by emailing Hello@SafeHomeFamilies.com

Aug 17, 202231:09
Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, 7 Steps to Self-Recovery (Step THREE)
Aug 02, 202226:11
Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Steps One and Two

Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up, Steps One and Two

To download your free guide go to MomsLettingGo.com

To join the All-Mighty Mom tribe for more sisterhood and support go to MomsLettingGo.Teachable.com/p/All-Mighty-Mom-Membership/

To Join the Private FB group: Facebook.com/groups/momslettinggo/

Jul 22, 202228:11
Chrystal J. Gilkey Interview

Chrystal J. Gilkey Interview

Chrystal Gilkey – writer and speaker who encourages and inspires.

She's a published author of the book, A WISP of Faith – Inspirational Fiction

She also has a Wisp of Faith course – Overcoming Church Hurt

ChrystalJGilkey.com

Author Academy Elite

If you'd like to become an author, check out Author Academy Elite. This is the place where Chrystal works to help writers.


Jul 18, 202223:00
Unhackable Moms of Addicted Loved Ones, The Book

Unhackable Moms of Addicted Loved Ones, The Book

Who is the book dedicated to?

Discover three words that can change the way you look at your life.

How can DAY ONE help you find and establish your dreams?

What's the first step to in helping YOU becoming UNHACKABLE?

(A hack is when someone or something gains unauthorized access to us or our computer. Moms get hacked into a chaotic life when they have a loved one with an SUD.)

Jul 04, 202215:15
How Do You Pray? Inspiration from Dr. Caroline Leaf.

How Do You Pray? Inspiration from Dr. Caroline Leaf.

Listen to the recap of Dr. Caroline Leaf and Priscilla Shirer on How to Pray.

Be inspired to include God in your daily intentional conversations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14TuRmCx6k

Jun 17, 202214:54
Interview with Matt MacLean, Podcaster, Lawyer and Mental Health Advocate

Interview with Matt MacLean, Podcaster, Lawyer and Mental Health Advocate

Podcaster at The Recombobulated Life Podcast

✴️ Tips for Moms who have children with a mental health disorder.✴️

You are so much more than your mistakes, failures, or mental illnesses. You’ve got so much more to contribute, and Matt is here to help you do it. 

Follow Matt @themattmaclean on Instagram for sparks of inspiration…and a few laughs. 

Subscribe to The Recombobulated Life and share the show with someone who needs to hear it. 

We’re on a mission to make this more hopeful place – and you can help us make this possible.

To know more about the artist who painted the painting in this discussion, visit here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robert_Keil 

For more information about Studies on brain injuries and mood disorders:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7653730/ https://journalbipolardisorders.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40345-018-0128-6

May 31, 202237:52
Interview with Heather Carter
May 20, 202235:33
Interview with Edie Weinstein, counselor, social worker and TEDx speaker.
May 15, 202246:59
Should you Give Your Addicted Loved One Advice?

Should you Give Your Addicted Loved One Advice?

CRAFT - Community Reinforcement and Family Training

Does giving your loved one advice help?

Here's another way to connect and build a trusting relationship with your loved one.

Apr 22, 202214:18
Interview with Lisa Moore, DD, ATP

Interview with Lisa Moore, DD, ATP

Lisa Moore | Spiritual Coach, Author and Speaker

Lisa Moore is a visionary leader who has followed her passion for making a difference in the world for almost two decades. As a Doctor of Divinity for the past 18 years, Lisa has served as a spiritual counselor, and she holds many certifications in the realm of the healing arts. Her compassion, depth of knowledge, and experience in both the physical and nonphysical worlds, provide the foundation for her profoundly transformational sessions.

Listen to her story of a time in her life when her son, Gordie, struggled with a substance use disorder.

During his recovery, he asked his mom for the book, THINK and GROW RICH. This book was the beginning of what turned his life around.

Mar 17, 202253:51
Remedy Live - Who are They and How Can They Help our Addicted Loved Ones?

Remedy Live - Who are They and How Can They Help our Addicted Loved Ones?

You are not alone.

RemedyLIVE provides safe and compassionate listeners 24 hours a day for you to chat with. Simply text 494949 from anywhere in the United States.

Interview with Clinton Faupel

https://www.remedylive.com/
Jan 10, 202232:52
How to Clear Your CRAP, with Daphne V. Smith
Nov 26, 202151:26
Interview with Bobby Newman, Interventionist

Interview with Bobby Newman, Interventionist

Secrets to Successful Recovery Solutions. What THEY Don't Want you to Know

Bobby Newman, Interventionist. Free resources HERE.

Get answers to these questions:

1. What reduces the chance of a relapse?

2. When do you get your child into recovery?

3. When is the time to do an intervention?

Oct 28, 202143:02
Interview with Writer and Recovering Addict, Steve Wildsmith

Interview with Writer and Recovering Addict, Steve Wildsmith

Steve Wildsmith is with the drug and alcohol treatment center Cornerstone of Recovery, Inc., and is also a freelance journalist and a recovering addict.

Listen to Steve's story of his chemical suit of armor, his relationship with his mother, and his tribute to Angie, a friend he lost to addiction.
What would you tell Moms who are struggling with an addicted child. 

Be inspired by Steve's story and learn more about addiction and celebrity artists who have chosen recovery from his blog articles at: TheTiesThatBindUs.org

PAIN SHARED is PAIN LESSENED. Join us in the All Mighty Mom Tribe HERE.

TO ANGIE: There are cracks in my soul tonight where your light used to shine. I know it's shining now in a better place, burning with the brilliance of a thousand candles. I weep with sorrow that you could never recognize in you what the rest of us saw so easily. --Steve Wildsmith

Sep 30, 202138:48
How Do You Forgive Your Addicted Loved One?
Sep 10, 202127:24
What are Your Spiritual Gifts?
Jun 30, 202119:08
Interview with Joshua, a Recovering Addict and a Former Prison Inmate
Jun 08, 202101:05:54
Interview with Ft. Wayne Recovery Staff
May 23, 202101:13:16
A Bible Study on How to Break Free from Worry
May 16, 202122:23
Interview with Courtney Jenkins, JCAP (Jail Chemical Addiction Program)

Interview with Courtney Jenkins, JCAP (Jail Chemical Addiction Program)

Learn about a Jail Chemical Addiction Program we have in our community, and be inspired to start one in your local jail.

When Moms of addicted loved ones find the power and purpose to overcome the guilt, shame and chaos that keeps them locked in fear, they can break free and implement programs in our communities that make a difference.

Meet one Mom who changed the landscape of our jail despite the difficulties she faced.

May 10, 202101:06:30
Interview with Author, Jesse Harless, If Not You, Then Who?

Interview with Author, Jesse Harless, If Not You, Then Who?

Meet Jesse Harless, author, speaker and facilitator for Entrepreneurs in Recovery

Jesse Harless doesn’t hold back in his new book If Not You, Then Who?, sharing the story behind his battle with addiction. His journey, which began when he found himself standing in front of a judge as an opioid addict facing narcotics possession charges at the age of twenty -two, taught him the importance of not just sobriety, but of finding recovery.

Today, Jesse’s mission is to change the addiction and mental health recovery world one conversation at a time through Entrepreneurs in Recovery.

As a leader in his space, Jesse facilitates highly experiential online and in-person training that helps individuals and organizations deepen connections, harness their strengths, elevate purpose, and establish safety.

Jesse trained me to lead these experiential workshops, too. I’ve been able to use them in the subscription membership – the All Mighty Mom Tribe, and in my local jail. 

Soon I’ll be facilitating them in a women’s recovery home.

Please help me welcome Jesse.

BOOK PAGE

JesseHarless.com

Join the All Mighty Mom Tribe for Sisterhood and Support


Apr 20, 202101:05:49
Part Two Boundaries - How to Resolve Family Boundary Problems
Apr 01, 202120:15