Our episodes fall into 4 categories:

💟 Adoption

💊 Addiction & substances

🦋 Mental health & healing modalities

🌈 Embracing diversity

So here’s an index of our episodes, organized by category, and listed by episode #:

💟 ADOPTION:
14, 21, 30, 38, 48, 50, 60, 67, 70, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, & 85 Adoption stories
30, 76, 77 & 81 Empowering adoptees
60, 76, 80 & 83 Transracial adoption
14, 21, 30, 38, 70, 75, 76, 77, 78 & 80 Reunion and search
63 & 67 Open adoption
63 Adoptive parent
67 Relative caregivers, kinship adoption, guardianship
75, 77 & 80 Birth parent
78 Abandonment
79, 82 & 84 Adoption trauma

💊ADDICTION & SUBSTANCES:
1 Intro
2 Cough medicine and other OTC meds
3, 22, & 43 Cannabis
4 Nicotine
5, 24, & 45 Psychedelics
6, 12, 13 & 59 Relapse
7, 17, 57 & 65 Alcohol
8, 29, 46 & 62 Opiates
9, 40 & 51 Stimulants
10, 19, 28, 40, 42, 59 Parenting an addicted teen
17, 29, 40, 41, 51, 55, 57 & 65 Addiction recovery
22 & 43 Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
32, 40, 42, 55 & 59 A Family’s Recovery Journey
34, 49, & 55 Losing a Loved One to Addiction
41 & 59 Shame and stigma of addiction
44, 50 & 71 Experimentation with substances
10, 34, 55 & 59 CRAFT Method
71 Drug-induced psychosis

🦋 MENTAL HEALTH & HEALING MODALITIES:
10, 19, 34, 53, 61, 69, 72 & 73 Parenting support
11, 44, 52, 54, 58, 61, 66 & 71 Depression
15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 49, 50, 76, 79, 80, 82 & 83 Healing trauma
16, 66 & 71 Psych hospitals and suicidal ideation
18 & 78 Holding down jobs
20, 39, 49, 58, 77, 78 & 84 Sense of belonging
24 Beth’s journey (by request)
25 & 83 Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Movement Healing
27 Hypnotherapy
32 Wilderness Therapy
33 Tapping (EFT)
35 Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
36 & 80 Sound Healing & Music as healer
38 EMDR
41, 49 & 71 Shame and stigma of mental health
44, 47, 48, 58 & 71 Anxiety
48 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
49 Religion as Trauma or Transformation
51, 52 & 71 Bipolar
54, 76, 79 & 82 Mindset Shifting
56 Sexual Trauma
56 Eating Disorders
58 School and Community and Mental Health Outcomes
68 OCD

🌈 EMBRACING DIVERSITY:
20 & 39 Bullying
23, 31, 37, 49, 51, 64 & 71 LGBTQ+
26, 31 & 72 Learning disabilities
29 Transgender
31, 37 & 51 Non-Binary Gender Identity
31 & 72 Autism and ADHD
35 Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
44 Blindness
45, 50 & 79 Clairvoyance, intuitives
64 Sexuality, sex ed
69, 72 & 73 Parenting unique children
83 Racism

• My Soul Life Podcast with Susan Scollen - Relinquishment Trauma

• Tough Love: Adoptees’ Perspectives on Relationships - Unraveling Adoption

• Living With Your Child’s Addiction with Heather Ross - How Adoption Trauma Can Contribute To Substance Use

• Mind Your Own Karma - The Adoption Chronicles with Melissa Brunetti - What Every Adoptive Parent Should Know

• Thriving Adoptees with Simon Benn - Personal Growth

• Mind Your Own Karma - The Adoption Chronicles with Melissa Brunetti - Three Adoption Triad Members Come Together to Talk About the Fog

• CutOff Genes Podcast with Julie Dixon Jackson - Storytime (Beth’s part starts at ~35:00)

• Living With Your Child’s Addiction - How CRAFT and Coaching Transform Relationships with Guests Beth Syverson and Joey Nakao

• The Shameless Mom Academy Podcast - Parenting a Child Through Addiction

• Confessions of a Mama Brain - My Child's an Addict, Now What?

• Moms Letting Go Without Giving Up - Safe Home Interview with Beth Syverson

• Moms Without Capes - Help Yourself to Help Your Kids

• The Renaissance Mama - How To Handle A Struggling Teen

• Whinypaluza - Teen Struggling with Addiction

• Project UnchainED - Ep. 38 - How a Healing Mother Supports her Son with Beth Syverson

• Living with Addiction - Episode 40 Supporting your child's healing journey

• What I Didn’t Tell My Therapist - Season 2 Episode 14 - Healing Addictions as a Creative Family Project

• Recovery Soulfood - A Family Journey Through Teenage Mental Health & Addiction, Recovery & Healing, Advocacy & Stigma Change...Recovery Soulfood Meets, Beth Syverson