When You're the Parent Now: Breaking Cycles While Still Cleaning up Your Own Mess

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Aaron B Kershaw Billye J Jones

When You're the Parent Now

Name: When You're the Parent Now
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ISBN: 9798903455645

Breaking Cycles While Still Cleaning up Your Own Mess

Aaron B Kershaw, Billye J Jones, Lori-Ellen Pisani

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Buildingblocs Publishing
04 April 2026

Violence in society; Coping with personal problems; Coping with drug & alcohol abuse; Advice on parenting

Series: Used to Survive

When You're the Parent Now: Breaking Cycles While Still Cleaning Up Your Own Mess is the fifth volume in the Used to Survive Series - a trauma-informed, straight-talking recovery framework that reframes addiction as adaptation, not identity.

Parenting in recovery is one of the hardest roles you'll ever step into. You're trying to heal your own wounds while showing up for your kids. You want to break cycles, but you're still patching yourself back together. You feel the weight of past mistakes, the sting of rejection, and the fear that it might be ""too late.""

This book is here to tell you it isn't.

When You're the Parent Now tackles the messy, complicated work of parenting while still recovering. It doesn't hand out clichés or impossible standards. Instead, it gives you a roadmap for rebuilding trust, making repairs, and protecting your sobriety while being present for the people who matter most.

Inside you'll discover:

Why ""enough"" parenting matters - and why perfection isn't required.

The reattachment process - small, predictable rituals that rebuild trust.

Apologies that land - moving from ""I'm sorry"" to ""I will.""

Parenting triggers - how discipline, rejection, and silence can reignite old wounds, and what to do instead.

Co-parenting with chaos - staying grounded when the other parent isn't stable.

Breaking the pattern, not the child - creating safety without repeating survival scripts.

When kids pull away - how to respect distance without collapsing.

Becoming the parent you needed - transforming grief into guidance and building a legacy worth keeping.

By: Aaron B Kershaw
Consultant editor: Billye J Jones, Lori-Ellen Pisani
Imprint: Buildingblocs Publishing
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9798903455645
Series: Used to Survive
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 04 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for When You're the Parent Now: Breaking Cycles While Still Cleaning up Your Own Mess

""Addiction is never just about the individual - it ripples through families. When You're the Parent Now dismantles shame and equips parents with practical scripts, small steady routines, and trauma-informed guidance to rebuild trust. It's one of the most important volumes in the series."" - Brian Wall, LPC-S, LAC, Division Director, Men's Residential Behavioral Health Services, South Carolina Department of Corrections