TPP 142a: Kayce Hughlett Talks About Her Differently Wired Son's Drug Addiction
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this episode and who is the guest?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
He was looking for He was looking for real connection. And it looks weird that you think it's real connection while he was disconnecting with drugs and alcohol and but what he was really looking for was real connection. I think. And we were giving him this parental mumbo jumbo that he couldn't connect with.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Reber and today's episode is a powerful, heartfelt conversation that I am honored to share with you. I'm talking with my friend Casey Stevens Hewlett, a psychotherapist, life coach, spiritual director and speaker, and the author of three books, as I lay pondering Daily Invitations to Live a Transformed Life, her novel Blue, and her journey memoir Soul Stroller, Experiencing the Weight, Whispers, and Wings of the World. Casey and I have been friends for many years and she was a compassionate listener and empathetic friend as I was going through some of my most challenging years with Asher.
Casey was a few years ahead in her journey with her own differently wired son, who was in his early twenties when we first met. I wanted to bring Casey onto the show to talk about what she and her family went through when her son, as a young teenager with an ADHD diagnosis, got involved with drugs. I know that this is something many parents with atypical kids fear may happen with their kids, and some listeners may be dealing with this very situation even now as they're listening to this. And so to hear Casey tell her story and share intimately about how she not only got through it, but how her family emerged on the other side more engaged and connected than any generations before them and is incredibly powerful and I hope to all of you listening inspiring.
And a little public service announcement before I get to our conversation. I would like to just come right out and ask you to consider supporting this show and Tilt Parenting by joining my Patreon campaign. Patreon is a platform that allows people to support artists they like, musicians, or in my case, a podcaster, by signing up to make a regular contribution. If you enjoy these conversations and they're beneficial to you and your family, please consider supporting this show at the twenty, ten, or even five dollars a month level. That money goes directly toward covering the production cost for the show and also just the costs associated with running Tilt Parenting. Thank you so much for considering and if you want to learn more or sign up, just go to patreon.com slash Tilt Parenting and
Thanks again, that's the end of the PSA portion of this episode. And now here is my conversation with Casey. Hey Casey, welcome to the podcast. Hey Debbie, so
good to be here. So good to be here.
Feel like this is a conversation a long time in the making because you and I have talked about what we're gonna talk about today many, many years ago, before Tilt was even in my mind, and when I was kind of in the throes of it with Asher when he was a little guy. So This uh I'm looking forward to bringing your perspective onto the show.
Thank you. Me too. I remember. I remember he was not he was nine when we met. Yeah,
or even younger I
think. Even younger maybe.
Yeah. So I guess as a way to get into our conversation, because this is gonna be more of a parent chat and really I I just am happy to share your personal journey with our audience because you're Kind of you've been through this. Your Definitely Wired Sun is grown and launched and it's just so helpful to hear kind of your journey. So tell us a little bit about who you are as a woman, as a mom, and then we'll use that to lead into telling us your story.
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