Letting Your Child Struggle and Choosing Love Over Fear, with Dr. Wes Robins

About this episode

Dr. Wes Robins discusses the importance of allowing children to struggle and the concept of choosing love over fear in parenting.

Episode 327 ABOUT THE EPISODE: Dr. Wes Robins sent me a text a few weeks ago, and I stopped what I was doing and read it twice. It was a piece he had written at his kitchen table while his daughters worked on an art project beside him, and it was one of the most honest and beautiful things I have read in all the years I have been doing this work. It started with four words: you are not broken. And it kept going from there. Wes has been a guest on this show before, and I have always admired how he shows up. No pretense, no pedestal. Just a real human being who has done his own hard work and now walks alongside young people and families who are doing theirs. Since we last spoke, he made the gut-wrenching decision to close the treatment center he poured five and a half years into, and what he learned on the other side of that loss is something I think every parent who has ever watched someone they love struggle needs to hear. He is back in private practice now, seeing clients out of a cool 60’s ranch house in Alpharetta, GA. He works with young people, with parents, and with families who are trying to figure out how to stay present through things that feel impossible to witness…

People in this episode

Host: Brenda Zane

Guest: Dr. Wes Robins

Topics covered

• parenting
• mental health
• addiction
• struggle
• love
• fear

Keywords

• parenting
• addiction
• mental health
• struggle
• love
• fear
• Dr. Wes Robins
• soul nurse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alpharetta, GA

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