Success is Subjective: Helping parents of college students accept that dropping out is okay Joanna Lilley, MA, NCC

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Conceived to a biological mother who was abusing drugs, adoptive mom Josie brought two children into her home with every intention of giving them a better life. But the neglect her son experienced as an infant left a lasting mark that the whole family still works to make up for n...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Today’s episode of Success is Subjective is a conversation between Joanna and Rosie. The last thing Rosie envisioned for her son was to be sending him away during his sophomore year of high school. But with hours of screaming, holes in the walls and broken windows from his fits o...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. Today’s Success is Subjective guest is Michelle, a wife and mom of two. Michelle shares how three mental health hospitalizations led her and her husband to seek wilderness therapy, followed by a residential program for their struggling child, who was only 12 years old at the time...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. With academic achievement in high school and remaining a starting player on his sporting teams, Lisa’s son was an outward face of success in his community. Yet at the same time, anxiety and depression were starting to dominate his private life and robbing him of the ability to ta...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. While Anne’s son struggled throughout childhood, by the time he was 16, Anne and her husband knew that they weren’t going to be able to provide the type of support he needed and that it was time to do something different. On today’s episode of Success is Subjective, Anne sits dow...

For the entire month of May, in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Joanna is bringing you a special parent series, where she interviews parents whose children have overcome a variety of mental health challenges. As the parent of two children with ADHD, Grace knows what it's like to be accommodating and adaptable. But she never expected the severity of challenges that her son had, on an ongoing basis, starting from a young age. From substance abuse, to a gap year, to jail and everywhere i...