Parenting Post-Wilderness: Parenting a Struggling Teen Before, During and After Treatment

Author: Beth Hillman Parent Coach for Parents of Struggling Teens

Your guide to parenting a struggling teen or young-adult, whether theyre home, transitioning home, or presently in treatment. Parents, say goodbye to exhausting confusion, overwhelm, panic and the unhelpful patterns that keep you and your family stuck. Learn how to develop healthy responses and set healthy boundaries with your teen instead of acting out of fear and anxiety. Experience the relationship-changing power of focusing on your own behavior instead of futile attempts to control your teen. Your guides to Parenting Post-wilderness are Beth Hillman, a life coach for parents of struggling teens and mom to a post-wilderness teen, and part-time co-host Seth Gottlieb, a wilderness therapy guide turned teen and young-adult recovery coach. Their unique combination of experience and training yields candid conversations chock full of practical, actionable tips and tools to smooth the challenges both parents and teens experience surrounding treatment. Every week, you can expect conversations around:Parenting a struggling teen or young-adult;Setting healthy boundaries with your teen;Treatment options for your struggling teen or young adult;Bringing your kid home from treatment;Parenting skills to support your struggling child;Teen substance abuse, drug addiction, gaming addiction, suicidal ideation, or other teen mental health concerns;How to end power struggles and instead foster healthy communication with your teen or young-adult;And much more.Listen in to discover how parents like you have learned to influence equanimity in the home and rebuild connections with the teens they love. Connect with Beth on Instagram (@bethhillmancoaching) or find more information about working with Beth at www.bethhillmancoaching.com.
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174. Parenting a Teen With Borderline Personality Disorder With Mom Michelle
Episode 174
Tuesday, 23 December, 2025

✨ 6-week Boundaries Masterclass ✨Starting January 13th -- Early Bird price until December 31st!👉🏼 Click here to sign up, or go to bethhillmancoaching.com/boundariesmasterclassI hope to see you there!If you’re parenting a teen with a mental health condition, like borderline personality disorder, you may recognize the constant confusion: Is this normal? Am I helping, or making it worse? Why does nothing seem to work?In this episode, I’m joined by Michelle Park, a mom who courageously shares her family’s long and winding journey of parenting a teen with borderline personality disorder. Michelle takes us all the way back to early childhood, through misdiagnoses, masking, suicide attempts, and multiple levels of care, and into the crucial shifts that ultimately helped her daughter and family heal.What makes this conversation so powerful isn’t just the treatment story. It’s the parenting transformation Michelle had to make along the way. She opens up about letting go of fixing, silver-lining, and minimizing pain and learning instead how to validate emotions, sit with discomfort, and radically accept her daughter for who she is.This episode is honest, emotional, and hopeful. It’s for those of you who are exhausted, scared, and wondering whether change is even possible, both for your teen and for yourself.In this episode on parenting a teen with borderline personality disorder, we discuss:Michelle’s journey through early signs of emotional dysregulation in her daughter and how they’re often missed;The impact of misdiagnosis, masking, and “whack-a-mole” treatment;What borderline personality disorder can look like in teens and young adults;Why validation (not fixing) became the turning point in Michelle’s parenting;How long-term treatment supported real, lasting change for Michelle’s family;The important role parents play in recovery, and why family work matters so much;Letting go of expectations and redefining success for your struggling teen;Finding hope, support, and community as a parent of a child with a mental health condition.Resources mentioned in this episode:NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)NEABPD (National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder)Looking for support?🗺️Need help setting healthy boundaries with your teen AND following through? My free guide will help you do so by creating your own Parent Home Plan!🤍Influence lasting change in yourself and your struggling teen with my private coaching or parent group program specifically created for parents of struggling teens.Have a question or need support? You can email me at beth@bethhillmancoaching.comYou can support the show by:Leaving a reviewSubscribing to the showAnd remember parents, the change begins with us.✨ 6-week Boundaries Masterclass ✨Starting January 13th -- Early Bird price until December 31st!👉🏼 Click here to sign up, or go to bethhillmancoaching.com/boundariesmasterclassI hope to see you there!