Restore Your Peace.  Be Moved By Love. 

 

The Empowered Mom

 

Get expert guidance and group support in this 12 week live, on-line journey as you relieve fears and increase the power of your love strengthened with tools and skills that inspire change

 

Connect with more moms in purpose, on purpose 

 

To Learn More or to Get a Mini Clarity Plan Just For You: Schedule a Free Empowered Mom Call Now

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. It's normal and common 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. 

  • Worry - Where is 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.
  • 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. I can't believe it's gotten so bad,. Everything has changed and it's getting worse, won't get better.

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves." 

~ The Dali Lama

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.

  • Get clear on what is most important to you and why.
  • Transform your worry to peace.
  • Let go of guilt.
  • Resolve resentments.
  • Forgive yourself, forgive your child, set your heart free.
  • Learn and practice skills that build connection and inspire change.
  • Get the kind of tools that are doable and powerful so that you can walk your peace path for the rest of your life.
     
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  This is For You if: 

  • You feel overwhelmed by worry, guilt, resentments, imagining a scary future, reliving difficulties of the past.
  • You're tired, unsure, doubting yourself, wanting to be closer with your child, often distracted in thought and thinking the worst, waiting for the call.
  • Can't relax, pretending you're ok when you're not.
  • Sometimes feel consumed by conditions and crises, feeling hopeless or helpless.
  • You know things need to change, you just don't know how (yet).  You wonder what's going to work, and you need something to work quickly.
  • You see others doing well and compare yourself, wondering if or when life might improve for you and your child, questioning if you're doing something wrong (you're not). 
  • You want to connect more with your heart, open your mind, and practice taking care of your mind, body, and spirit so that you have a care plan that works for you, except fear keeps getting you stuck.
  • Even though it's uncomfortable to feel all the feels, you are willing to be willing to go a bit deeper, care for your fears, learn and try on new ideas - you sense hope calling to you, and are open to believe that love is going to find you and move you into healing and learning new ways to show up loving your child, with more confidence to help them. 

As an Empowered Mom you CAN:

  • Re-gain your mental clarity.
  • Re-claim your peace.
  • Re-store your energy.
  • Re-new essential skills to love a child through their addiction.
  • Re-create new ways that feel right for you to solve old problems.
  • Re-connect with your child, heart to heart

This is how moms like you can honor your great purpose to love, 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 light the way for your child. 

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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. 

If you're reading this, most likely we share an intention to actively love our children through their struggles with substance use, 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.

"All because of you could I love him well. Sending so much love and gratitude to you.  You are in my heart giving me strength and hope for a way to stay connected with him on so many levels of love. Thank you for your words of wisdom."  

- BSL

"Joanne Richards - loving you so sweetest mama. And thank YOU for the big part you play in my life- you have been a mentor helping us all find our way back to love."

– KC

"It was your group and your words that taught me how to love my child through her addiction. Your words helped me help her realize her strength and worth. I thank you every day for her life and mine."

– RDB

"You helped me learn how to communicate with my son and I’m forever grateful. He has been in recovery and is living on his own & working. I’m still working on my own self and our relationship is better than ever. The bonus is he calls me almost every day, love wins!"

– PB

Care for your Worry, Guilt, Anger.

Get Essential Tools and Skills

Have your experience and struggles seen and heard, supported by those who understand

  • Re-connect with your best self

  • Relieve your stress and restore your peace

  • Choose life and love over fear and worry

  • Release the burden of guilt

  • Be free of anger and renew your hope

  • Forgive and heal to rebuild stronger relationships

  • Learn concepts that can naturally help you move forward with more confidence

  • Strengthen your resilience

  • Heal your pain and create purpose from it

  • Learn effective listening and communication skills

  • Invite shared interest and problem solving with your child
  • Clarify kind boundaries and release the fear to live them

  • Inspire accountability, insight, and behavior changes

  • Support and uplift your child with your own healing
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What you'll get in The Empowered Mom 

 

Experience a powerful combination of compassionate support and learning with other moms who understand and join you in practicing effective strategies and tools for your personal healing so that you can better heal the relationship with your child and love, skillfully, the way we need to when loving a child through their struggles with substance use.

Experience 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, mind-set, self-care, boundaries, and saying "no" with love.

Support & Accountability

Connect with other moms in community to provide mutual support and understanding so that you can heal and grow, 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.  (Value $100)

2.  A tool kit with multiple doable exercises to use during and after your course so that you can continue to empower your love.  (Value $500)

3.  A comprehensive self-guided educational program ~ The Invitation to Change ~ based in science and kindness.  (Value $500)

4.  A guide to easily incorporate doable and healthy nutrition ideas (Value $100)

5.  A guide to include simple body movement into your day  (Value $100)

6.  Over 100 thought provoking journal prompts to enhance your healing and inner wisdom.  (Value $100)
7.  A collection of inspiring and uplifting biblical verses, if desired. (Value $100)

(Added Bonus Value $1500 +)

Are you ready to reclaim your peace and nurture your spirit?

Enroll in Healing Hearts today and start benefiting from interactive live sessions, a supportive community, and a collection of effective tools tailored specifically for your healing. Don’t put off what is so critical for your peace.  Peace is the way.  Peace in you is what you get to share with your child. 

 

Take the first step or continue on towards a renewed mind and more peaceful heart now! 

 

Join Healing Hearts

Are you ready to empower your love?

 

Schedule an Empowered Mom Call today to learn more.  Whether or not the course is a fit for you, you will be fully supported to clarify a mini plan to move forward with some resources to meet you and your situation where you're at and consider next steps that are right for you.

 

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.

 

Take the first step or continue towards a renewed mind and more peaceful heart now! 

 

Schedule a Free Empowered Mom Call Now

Have questions?

Here are some answers!

Empowered Mom and all Hearts At Work conversations are for moms of children struggling with substance use to discuss the experience of loving and grieving a child who is still alive while 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.


No one is turned away for lack of funds.