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

Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health · May 28, 2026 · 1h 4m

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…