Teens & Drugs - What To Do‪?‬ Waves Of Clarity Podcast

What do you do when you find out (or suspect) that your teenager is using drugs or alcohol? Whilst it's a common worry or reality for parents, Tracy Kimberg will help you, step-by-step, to resolve this issue. This episode is immediately followed by a meditation to help let go of worry and stress.
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my name is Tracy Kimberg and this is the waves of clarity podcast. With many years of medical and psychological experience I have often had to do with the not so nice side as a result of someone making the wrong decision. So today I'm going to touch on a very sensitive subject, which is what do you do when your teenager is using drugs.
But before we start with that discussion, I just want to say how absolutely over the moon I am after this week being announced as one of the top five podcasts in women. In business. It was a huge surprise. And I feel very, very proud because I never even thought a couple of years ago that I would be doing my own podcast.
I always felt quite self-conscious and thought who would want to listen to me, but I've had an extraordinary response to. Everything that I've been talking about on these podcasts and thank you for each and every review that I've received today. I want to thank Claire Maya who wrote it's a fantastic podcast, very well presented and so helpful.
Thank you, Claire, for such a lovely review. Then of course, very, very important is if you are listening and you feel that I've touched something that might resonate with you and you feel, Oh, I need to talk to Tracy about this. Then don't be shy. Pick up the phone. Call me text me and let's have a discussion.
It will be no obligation free discussion where I can maybe give you a little bit of advice or we can start working with your child, or I can help you in some way to, um, find a better solution to your problem.
So what do you do when you find out or you suspect that your teenager is using drugs or alcohol? First of all, I just want to reassure you that it's a very common and frightening worry for a lot of parents. If you suspect that your team is using drugs, it can be extremely overwhelming. And you can be very, very worried and concerned.
So I'm going to help you step by step, figure out what you can do to resolve this issue. The first very important thing is to don't ignore it, confront the situation, confronting the situation needs to be done in the right way. It is vital that you have the conversation. In the right way and at the right time, and that you are prepared beforehand, if you only suspect that your child is using drugs, take the time to prepare yourself.
However, if you have caught your teenager or found out from another, either a friend or someone has told you, or you found a drugs, then allow yourself time to cool down before you can try and confront or speak to your child. Speaking in anger. It's only going to make the situation worse. And of course, when we angry, we say things that we can take back and we react in ways that we later regret.
So I strongly recommend that. If you are feeling upset, make sure that you're all feeling calm and in control before you sit your child down and have that discussion. If you only suspect that your child is using drugs, you have to trust your instincts in this kind, not to ignore it because. You might be right.
You might be wrong and it's better to be right. And be able to act then be wrong and not do anything about it. So I recommend that if you suspect that your child is using drugs, that you sit your child down and have a very open discussion and we're not mean open. It means that you have to have your child's trust so that they will feel comfortab