Mar 7, 2022
In this week’s episode you will hear another family’s story of adolescent addiction and recovery. Dawn McCord’s son Carson had a tumultuous adolescence but he found recovery through wilderness therapy. Dawn’s new memoir "Chasing Carson: A Family's Journey through Adolescence, Addiction and Recovery," provides an honest account of their whole family’s healing process.
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TIME STAMPS:
2:05 Did Carson give his blessing for the memoir?
3:35 Dawn and Beth are committed to reducing the shame around addiction
6:25 Adolescents’ risky behavior is part of normal development
9:30 Carson’s addiction story
14:11 Compounding the addiction story with poverty or racism
16:16 Ideas for helping our struggling kids
21:30 The dangers of social media for our kids
24:45 Carson progressed to heroin and found wilderness therapy
33:25 Reorganizing home rules and revising family habits
35:38 How Dawn has stayed sane
40:00 What Dawn would have done differently (hint: smart phones)
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