{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Bad Mom Podcast: Parenting The Anxious Generation","title":"Parents Need Recovery Too: The Missing Step to Helping Your Addicted Child with Joe Polish","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3501,"description":"When we see our kids sinking into anxiety, depression, or even addiction, our first instinct is: “How do I fix them?” We scramble for therapists, schools, treatments, and programs, anything that might help our child get better.\n\nBut here’s the hard truth: in many cases, it’s not only your child who needs help, you do too.\n\nAddiction and mental health struggles rarely live in isolation. They ripple through the entire family system, quietly shaping how we respond, cope, and even enable. \n\nParents often carry just as much wounding, fear, shame, and unprocessed trauma as the kids they’re trying to rescue. And until we confront our own patterns, we risk perpetuating the cycle.\n\nIn this episode, I sit down with entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of Genius Network® and Genius Recovery, Joe Polish. \n\nJoe’s worked through the pain of childhood trauma and years of drug addiction. Now he’s building one of the most respected recovery movements in the world.\n\nTogether, we explore why parents must be part of the recovery process, why control often makes things worse, and how connection, community, and unlearning our own patterns open the path to healing.\n\nKEY TAKEAWAYS:\nParents need help too\nWhen a child struggles, families often focus all energy on “fixing” the kid. Why is it hard to make recovery work unless parents also seek support and do their own healing? \nUnlearning before learning\nOur instinct is to add more, more advice, more structure, more effort. Do the biggest shifts come from unlearning old survival patterns first? \nRecovery never happens alone\nAddiction thrives in isolation, secrecy, and shame. What kind of support actually changes outcomes?\nThe biochemical & environmental traps\nWhat can parents change in the home environment that dramatically shifts a child’s likelihood of recovery?\n\nRESOURCES & NEXT STEPS:\n\n👉 If you’ve ever thought, “Am I doing this right?” or felt the pain of wanting to do everything but not having the tools, this episode is for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C56mzW7KPp1bS0tdlhpnvyiBlpKunixPezO26vL62gQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZGFl/NWE4NmRhZDcyODk1/ZmNlYjhjOTg0NTFi/YzgzMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}