Jessica Lahey

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 249: Jessica Lahey on Her New Book, The Addiction Inoculation: Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence · 6 Apr 2021 podcast

Have we have we done something about that?

I had no idea.

And then I also wanted to talk a little bit about as a parent

how I talk to my own kids about my own substance use and I don't keep that a secret and it's very much out there because, you know, a lot of what I had experienced and a lot of what um people talk about in substance abuse memoirs is um uh just gaslighting and secrets and secrets are really toxic and keep us sick and there's all sorts of research outside of substance abuse on that as well.

Um my husband is a HIV doc and

There's a study that shows that uh

People who keep their HIV status a secret have poorer outcomes than people who are out with their HIV status.

And um, you know, when controlling for a lot of other factors, it seems to be that that secrecy and shame

makes us sicker because it affects our immune system.

So w uh what does that do to kids?

So it was really for me, it's a memoir, but it's also an evidence based guide to parenting and teachers and coaches.

There's a lot of stuff in there about sports.

And colleges and how to essentially

If you picture addiction risk as uh scales, those old timey scales, you know, if your kid has a lot of risk factors, I just wanted to give parents the ammunition to raise the risk factor, w make the risk factor side as heavy as possible.

Um, the more risk we know about, the more honest we are with ourselves in evaluating risk, the better we can heap protections on kids.

And I wanted kids to

I wanted to prevent kids from ending up in my classroom.

Because I was seeing the same stories and the same risk factors and the same situations over and over and over again.

And but that's anecdotal evidence, right?

I'm not I didn't do any controlled, you know, double blind studies.

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