Relieve Your Worry. Restore Your Peace.
Break Through Fear. Be Moved By Love.
The Empowered Mom
Loving with Skills
Get expert guidance and group inspiration in this 12 week journey on line and live as you relieve fears and increase the power of your love
Connect with more moms in purpose, on purpose.
I'll BE and Empowered Mom
You Matter, Your Healing Matters.
Give it to You, Give it to Your Child.
No one does the hard stuff alone, at least not very well. Like most of us, it's easy to feel stressed out by:
Worry -Where's my child? How are they? They're living under a bush or a bridge. There are health complications. You're waiting for "the call".
Guilt - I did something wrong. I did too much, didn't do enough. I shouldn't haven't said that. I should have done it better. I caused it.
Anger - The system is stacked against us. I do so much and they don't appreciate it. My friends and family don't understand.
Grief - I'm losing my sanity, my life, my happiness. My child is spiraling deeper and deeper into addiction. Everything has changed, it's getting worse, won't get better.
Although it makes perfect sense to think and feel these things, please don't let it stay that way.
If you have ongoing stress, you need ongoing healing, with a treasure box of ways to get inner peace, get your energy back, and learn skills to love you and your child through their addiction.
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
~ The Dali Lama
It's 100% possible, but let's be real here ...
Things get hard. There's another truth, though, that you can make it harder if you get stuck believing your scary thoughts and the imagined scary future that comes with it. Thoughts like:
- "I can't take anymore."
- "Nothing is working."
- "They're too far gone."
- "I'm going to get the call".
- "They'll never heal."
Of course there are risks, real concerns, we know that tragedies occur, but that doesn't mean what you're thinking and believing is true at the moment or at all. These thoughts, left to fester, will scream at you and can cause physical harm, causing continued confusion and exhaustion. This makes you increasingly ineffective to be as helpful as you want to be, and unfortunately as much as you love your child, fear can be the thing that gets communicated more than your love. It's no wonder there's so much pain, right?
Got fear? Well, it's not your fault.
The brain is hardwired for fear. You might even fear facing the fear as if it will bring on bad luck, or the fear will consume you, or make you unable to function in your daily life. Not true, but fear can be so intense, it has you sometimes believing those things are true and that those scary thoughts about the future are going to happen.
Good news is that your heart is hardwired for love too. And love has power over fear, you have power over fear. You can surely interrupt these normal patterns of the brain, and instead strengthen your capacity for peace and love.
Maybe you've tried educational groups, 12 step meetings, other support groups (and good that you do!), but your inner peace and ability to break through the big emotions is wobbly or elusive. It's easy to feel like peace just might not be attainable, especially when experiencing some chaos or complication.
No fault there either! This stuff is hard and not all programs can address all needs.
Let's remove all fault and replace it with the realization that you just need the kind of support to care for your fear, the kind of support that helps create a safe space and time to feel so that you can continue healing and learn essential concepts and skills to love a child through their addiction. This is what makes the hard easier, or at least not as hard.
What's involved with this kind of healing?
- What you're thinking.
- How you're treating yourself and your feelings.
- Your self-care habits for your body, mind, and spirit.
- Your support system.
- Learning and practicing applicable skills
With guidance and support you can:
This is how to honor your great purpose so that you can honor the timeless, unbreakable bond with your dear child, especially when it gets complicated and peace is needed the most. Feel lighter so that you can be a light in the dark.
I'll BE an Empowered Mom
Welcome, I'm Joanne
Hello to you, my fellow courageous mom. I'm Joanne Richards, mom of a child who struggles with substance use and mental health issues. I'm also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, Certified Grief Educator, with a Certification in The Invitation to Change and Trauma Sensitive Heart Math. I've earned a broad personal and professional perspective of loving a child through addiction, the hard way. We must create some ease, and we can!
I believe that unless and until we do our own healing, we will remain in a cycle of suffering. I have caused more difficulty, estrangement, and increased struggle because I just didn't know or wasn't doing enough for my inner peace. Much of it was preventable. Of course, I didn't do it deliberately, I did it because of fear, lack of knowledge and skills.
Fear is the number one contributing factor that causes so many preventable problems. That's why I really want to support moms through the hard stuff with expert coaching, meaningful discussion, and doable activities within a safe, supportive, and understanding community of other moms loving children through their addiction wanting to help them in ways that actually help. Love wins here!
If you're reading this, most likely we share an intention to actively love our children through their addiction, starting and continuing with our own healing. We have got to care for our fears (worry, guilt, anger etc) and return to love, with much needed skills.
With over 20 years of professional training and personal experience, I've collected some of the most effective and powerful tools and methods, thankfully that have supercharged my own healing, and I trust can supercharge yours too. My approach is deeply grounded in a foundation of acceptance, compassion, empathy, faith, with practical, evidence-based strategies that promote healing and self-empowerment. I call it loving with skills. I'd love for you to join me.
Introducing The Empowered Mom
Your 12 week journey to create a safe, compassionate, transformational place to heal, establish kind boundaries, and develop skills in communication and behavior change ~ with love guiding the way.
Care for your Worry, Guilt, Anger ...
Have your experience and struggles seen and heard, supported by those who understand
What you'll get in The Empowered Mom
Experience a powerful combination of compassionate support while practicing effective strategies and tools for your personal healing so that you can better heal the relationship with your child and love with skills. We are moms, together changing what really needs changing with the kind of change that builds a strong foundation to restore your peace, create better balance, and strengthen your resilience to do the hard things with less pain, more ease, less confusion, more confidence. Love wins here!
Mindset Coaching
Stay focused and intentional supported by Joanne's facilitation and coaching so that you experience consistent support in your healing and turning fears into understanding, and therefore peace. Break through fears that would hold you back from learning and living empowered love.
Skill Building
Along with a variety of coping strategies to manage stress, learn and practice needed skills for boundaries, communication, and behavior change so that you can best love a child through their struggles with substance use and/or mental health issues.
Stress-Melting Activities
Learn and practice restorative and doable peace techniques designed to care for your tough emotions so that you can renew your peace and balance. This is a mind, body, spirit approach to take care of all parts of you.
Pain into Purpose
Learn how to turn your emotional turmoil into a source for deeper understanding, resilience and inspired choice and action. Because Love is who you are, we will use its power above the pain and for greater purpose.
Worksheets & Resources
You will have a collection of tools and worksheets to apply your learning during and after the course is complete. Worksheets include topics such as identifying your priorities, self-care, self-inquiry, boundaries, and saying "no" with love.
Support & Accountability
Connect with other moms in community to provide mutual support and understanding. We need each other to heal and grow, to inspire, and rise. Stay on track to meet your own needs so you can show up without added stress when your child needs you the most.
Special Bonuses
1. A guided meditation to listen to any time at your convenience.
2. A collection of worksheets to use during and after your course is complete so that you can continue to empower your love.
3. A comprehensive self-guided educational program ~ The Invitation to Change ~ based in science and kindness.
4. Over 100 thought provoking journal prompts to enhance your healing and inner wisdom.
5. A collection of inspiring and uplifting biblical verses, if desired.
(Value $800 +)
Are you ready to claim your peace?
Enroll in The Empowered Mom today and know you will be fully supported to move from fear and worry to clarity and peace within a supportive community. Find a collection of effective tools tailored specifically for your healing. Don’t put off what is so critical for your health and the health of your relationships. Peace is the way. Peace in you is peace out of you, and what you will share with your child, and the world.
Take the first step or continue towards a renewed mind and more peaceful heart now!
I'll BE an Empowered Mom
Say YES to Saving You AND
the Relationship with Your Child
Join The Empowered Mom today. Why? Fear is not a superpower. Peace that leads to your heart and Love is definitely your superpower. So, let's energize it and add some needed skills. With this intentional work, we raise your energy and it spreads to the collective energy so that it can shine more brightly into the world, and for each of our children. You're invited to be part of creating a movement of love, healing, and inspired action.
Flexible Plan
I'll BE an Empowered MomBest Value Plan
I'll BE an Empowered MomWhy Join Now?
Is there a better time for more peace and love?
✔ Save Time, Sanity, Connection to Life, Love, You, and Your Child: There is no better time or place for inner peace so that you feel it and can live more peacefully, especially when the struggles are real.
✔ Exclusive Access: Benefit from the comprehensive support and transformative tools that help to create the very best healing community for you and others.
✔ Purposeful Contribution: As an Empowered Mom, you co-create an experience for yourself and other moms to supercharge our collective love so that we're creating a ripple effect through a world sorely in need of healing.
Say YES NOW to take advantage of this time-limited opportunity!
Have questions?
Here are some answers!
What is The Empowered Mom and Who is it for?
How do I know it will work for me?
What can I expect from The Empowered Mom
What is my time investment and how long does the program last?
Is there any support available between sessions?
Will I have to share during sessions?
Will I get individual coaching?
How is coaching different from therapy?
How will this help my child?
Can I cancel my enrollment if needed?
What is The Invitation to Change?
When are weekly live sessions?
Your Path to Peace
Don’t miss out on this special opportunity. When you join The Empowered Mom, you build something that not only helps you and your child, it helps even more families and more children as we keep trying to do all we can to turn the tides from more loss to more life, to more love, and needed change. You'll be creating a healing path for you, your child, and other Empowered Moms.
Imagine more and more moms feeling a greater sense of peace and strength, advocating from that place with more clarity and determination, empowered not by fear but by the power of love.
Let's do this together!
Love wins here!
I'll BE an Empowered Mom
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You Belong Here
Your healing journey is so very important not just for you, but for you to give it to your child.
The Empowered Mom is uniquely designed to guide you through the complexities of all the big fears and emotions so that you can grieve well, and use the power of love (not fear) to love your child through their addiction, and feel more peace ~ all within a nurturing community.
The Empowered Mom
The time is now. Start transforming the relationship with your child today. It's an inside job to get the outside results. And it's for YOU and YOUR CHILD.
Have a place to be seen, heard, supported and learn how to navigate through the confusion and struggles. Make the hard less hard. Create a path to peace, build on your skills to connect, communicate and contribute to conditions that inspire change.
With an open heart and an open mind, be moved by Love, be changed from the inside out so that you can share it with your child and the world.
I'll BE an Empowered Mom
Empowered Mom conversations are for moms of children struggling with substance use to discuss the experience of loving and grieving a child who is still alive, and exploring ways to manage the stress, worry, and other big emotions that are part of this walk. It's a place to learn and practice valuable skills of loving a child through their addiction.
This is not therapy or group therapy. No online discussion should be used to replace professional help.
A member may cancel between the first and second session with a 50% refund. If a member presents behavior that will negatively impact the group and has not offered resolution, she may be asked to leave.
No one is turned away for lack of funds.
