From "troubled teens" to thriving teams—whether you’ve tried therapy, treatment programs, or are just so over feeling stuck, this one’s for you. 💚 Read the Not Therapy success stories and see what’s been working for families like yours!

Mine and my peers' reactions when we learned our treatment center has to pay $2.5m in punitive damages for fraud.

So oversharing our childhood trauma *isn't* how we make friends in the real world?

What happens when you put a former troubled teen with a current troubled teen in an apartment together for 8 weeks.

“I’ve said sorry like a million times, and they won't forgive me!!”

From a former troubled teen’s perspective, here’s how to start the healing process after treatment.

It's not just that we're so done with therapy after treatment...we're ready to enter our villain era.

And it only took us 12 years to finally do it! Colin and I ran our first-ever online workshop for parents of teens and young adults, and it had one of the highest attendance rates ever for a workshop hosted by the Other Parents Like Me community!

Taking bets on how long I followed the rules until my parents' plan went completely out the window.

As someone who was diagnosed with oppositional defiance disorder (ODD), freedom - or personal agency - has been the number one thing I’ve valued for as long as I can remember. We believe it’s extremely important to give young people entering adulthood or leaving treatment a path to personal agency right out of the gate. Here’s how.

Imagine you’re heading off to your freshman year of college. You have that excited-anxious feeling about living on your own, making new friends, wondering if people will like you, and taking college classes. Now imagine feeling that way, but you haven’t talked to your peers for the last two years.

Don’t even trip. It’s not what you think…

Last Tuesday, The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping was released on Netflix. We were straight-up shook after watching it.

Our view on Trails Carolina and wilderness program closures as young people who spent their teen years in psych wards, wilderness, and residential treatment centers.