Parenting Through Alcohol Addiction: A Mother’s Personal Journey With Her Son’s Struggle to Sobriety
What do you do when your young adult calls and confesses that alcohol is destroying their life – and they’re over 1,000 miles away?
In this deeply heartfelt and insightful interview, we explore one mother’s real-life experience parenting her young adult son through alcohol addiction—and the personal growth, mindset shifts, and lessons she learned that can help other parents facing similar struggles.
This is not just a story of addiction and recovery. It’s a story of a parent who realized that her role had to shift. My guest, Kim Muench, opens up about the pain of letting go, the struggle of rewriting her limiting beliefs and the lifelong parenting patterns that Kim had to work through in order to heal herself and find the strength to help her son.
Over time, Kim realized that supporting her son meant not rescuing him, but changing herself. What emerged was a new way of showing up for her adult child—with clarity, compassion, and boundaries.
You’ll hear firsthand what it’s like to love your adult child through their addiction. To stand beside them without losing yourself. To shift from control to connection.
This interview is filled with calm insights, personal reflections and grounded wisdom for any parent who is walking alongside a struggling young adult—especially when the path feels heavy, uncertain, and overwhelming. We talk about how to love without enabling, how to stay close without controlling, and how to find peace as a parent even when your child is in crisis.
Whether you’re currently navigating this road, you know someone going through this, or you want to understand the deeper realities of parenting through addiction, this conversation will be a guiding light…as long as you (or they) are prepared to do the work to heal the childhood wounds.
If you want to learn how to build strength, resilience, and emotional clarity in your parenting even under the most difficult circumstances —this conversation is for you.
Kim Muench’s book, “Becoming Me While Raising You: A Mother’s Journey to Her Self” is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737522012?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
If your young adult is struggling with alcohol, consider checking out Al-Anon. It’s a safe, anonymous space for parents to find support, clarity, and connection. Click the link here: https://al-anon.org/
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