100Pedals is a coaching and support organization for parents struggling with substance use issues in the family. 100Pedals focuses changing the conversation parents have with their children, utilizing more effective listening behaviors, while practicing love and acceptance, to facilitate in a safe place for healthy interactions, moving away from conversations filled with shame, judgement, and criticism.
Since 2011, 100Pedals has impacted over 4,000 parents and family members across the country. Our “Healing through Listening” program has healed hundreds of broken, damaged relationships, and so much more…
Change the conversation – Once a parent changes their conversation, everything changes.
I am struggling. My 22-year-old daughter has been on a path of addiction for about five years. I constantly teeter on whether to stop communication because of the heartbreak I experience when I see her in active addiction; or, buck up and pretend there isn’t an elephant in the room named heroin and just see […]
When fear, guilt and shame are the foundational component of our parental emotions, healthy and balanced decision making suffers. When our objective is to minimize the fallout or the publicity in a family crisis, the allocation of time to think strategically about the best options, solutions, and strategies is diminished. No parent wants to discover […]
In last week’s blog, I reflected on the pressure parents put on themselves to maintain the perception everything is perfect in their home by referencing the fictitious television family, Ozzie and Harriet, as some faux standard of the perfect family dynamic. Today, every family is struggling with something. The real pressure is based on the […]
What if it was possible to turn your Hope into a result you could live with?
Today’s podcast: Finding a different way and celebrating the result.
What if you could trust in the outcome? What if it was possible to be at peace with the process?
What if letting go of our fears were not as hard as we make it to be?
Today’s podcast delves deeper into the battle between trust and fear. Listen as I share what it took for me to finally embrace trust and overcome my fears.
When you take control of your life. When you maintain your focus. When you trust in doing what you know you need to do. Your life will change. More incredibly, so will the behaviors of others as they adjust to your new habits and attitudes.
This is the last in this early series about commitment, change, and taking back control of your life and the impact this one decision resulted in change in my life and influenced the lives of those around me.
