The Healed Mom Project

Empowering online healing for women facing the challenges of their child's addiction or mental illness!
The Healed Mom Project is a signature program of Recovery Reprieve, a 501(c)(3).
What we offer

Our online intensive program for mothers

The Healed Mom Project is an innovative program offering 52 online modules that provide a deeply transformative, trauma-informed therapeutic experience. Crafted by leading mental health professionals, this program is meticulously designed for mothers of children coping with addiction and concurrent mental health issues.
  • 52 interactive modules
  • Weekly live sessions with expert guidance
  • Music Attunement experience for healing and growth
  • Treasure trove of addiction & mental health resources
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20 Benefits of The Healed Mom Project

A Clinically Grounded, Transformational Model for Healing and Growth

  1. Significant Reduction in Depressive Symptoms
    Mothers show measurable decreases in PHQ-9 and BDI-II scores, indicating improvements in mood stability and overall functioning.

    Moms, you’ll feel less depressed and enjoy more genuine smiles and good days again.

  2. Reduction in Anxiety and Hyperarousal
    Evidence-based interventions produce notable drops in BAI scores and help reduce chronic worry, rumination, and physiological arousal.

    Moms, your anxiety quiets down and the racing heart and constant worry fade.

  3. Decrease in Trauma-Related Symptoms
    PCL-5 scores show substantial improvement, reflecting healing from vicarious trauma, prolonged grief, and complex stress.

    Moms, the trauma starts to heal and you experience fewer nightmares and less carrying their pain.

  4. Enhanced Emotional Regulation Skills
    DBT-informed techniques help mothers develop adaptive emotional responses, reducing reactivity and emotional overwhelm.

    Moms, you’ll handle big feelings without falling apart.

  5. Strengthening of Ego Functioning and Identity
    Participants rebuild self-worth, autonomy, and a coherent sense of self after years of identity erosion caused by their child’s addiction.

    Moms, you’ll remember who you are outside of “mom of an addict.”

  6. Restored Healthy Boundaries
    Mothers learn to implement firm yet compassionate boundaries, decreasing enabling behaviors and reinforcing family system stability.

    Moms, you’ll set loving limits without guilt.

  7. Improved Cognitive Flexibility and Reframing
    CBT techniques help mothers challenge guilt, shame, and maladaptive beliefs, supporting healthier thought patterns.

    Moms, the crushing guilt and shame lose their grip.

  8. Reduction in Caregiver Burnout and Compassion Fatigue
    Therapeutic support and structured self-care practices significantly reduce emotional exhaustion and secondary trauma.

    Moms, you won’t feel completely burned out anymore.

  9. Increased Resilience and Stress Tolerance
    Mothers show greater capacity to endure emotional triggers, stressors, and crises without destabilizing.

    Moms, you’ll become stronger than you ever thought possible.

  10. Improved Interpersonal Functioning
    Relationship-focused interventions enhance communication, assertiveness, and capacity for healthy relational engagement.

    Moms, your relationships get healthier and safer.

  11. Decreased Codependent Patterns
    Mothers develop more balanced relational styles, reducing overfunctioning, rescuing behaviors, and emotional fusion.

    Moms, you’ll stop rescuing at the cost of yourself.

  12. Healing of Unresolved Grief and Loss
    Guided grief processing allows mothers to mourn the “idealized child” they imagined, fostering acceptance and emotional release.

    Moms, you’ll finally grieve the child you thought you’d have and find peace.

  13. Cultivation of Sustainable Self-Care Practices
    Participants learn to prioritize their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, often for the first time in years.

    Moms, self-care stops feeling selfish.

  14. Strengthened Family Systems Dynamics
    Improved maternal functioning positively affects the entire family ecosystem, increasing stability and decreasing chaos.

    Moms, your whole family breathes easier when you are steady.

  15. Enhanced Readiness for Change
    Mothers demonstrate increased motivation, insight, and commitment to personal and family healing.

    Moms, hope and motivation come back.

  16. Reduced Relapse Risk within the Family System
    When mothers are regulated and grounded, the overall family relapse potential (behavioral, emotional, or relational) declines.

    Moms, there is less chaos and relapse at home.

  17. Improved Coping Skills for Crisis and Uncertainty
    Participants gain concrete crisis-management strategies rooted in IOP-aligned clinical frameworks.

    Moms, you’ll know exactly what to do when crisis hits.

  18. Reintegration of Spiritual and Existential Meaning
    The program allows mothers to reconnect with hope, purpose, and a restored sense of life meaning.

    Moms, faith, purpose, or simple meaning return.

  19. Increased Social Connection and Peer Support
    Group cohesion reduces isolation, shame, and stigma, common in mothers affected by addiction.

    Moms, you won’t feel so alone because other moms truly get it.

  20. Improved Overall Quality of Life
    Holistic healing leads to enhanced daily functioning, emotional stability, and renewed capacity to engage in work, family, and community life.

    Moms, you start living again instead of just surviving.
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Music Attunement 

As a component of The Healed Mom Project, participants are introduced to Music Attunement. Conducted by a Trauma Music Specialist, these sessions utilize piano improvisations to aid in emotional processing and enhance the healing journey. It addresses trauma, honors caregiving mothers, fosters resilience, and creates lasting change in homes and communities.

Benefits of Music Attunement Therapy

  •    Enhances emotional resilience
  • Cultivates self-compassion
  • Ignites personal growth
"We are committed to healing mothers as a whole—mind, body, and soul."
- John Albert Thomas, Trauma Music Specialist

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is The Healed Mom Program?

The Healed Mom Program is a 12-month, doctoral-led, evidence-based therapeutic program designed specifically for mothers whose children struggle with addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders. It provides structured, trauma-informed treatment to help mothers process grief, rebuild emotional resilience, and restore purpose.

How is the program delivered?

The program is offered virtually. This allows mothers nationwide to participate safely and consistently from their own homes.

What topics are covered in the program?

Core modules include:
  • Guilt and shame recovery
  • Grief and loss
  • Neurological understanding of addiction
  • Codependency and boundary setting
  • Vicarious trauma
  • Self-care and ego strength
  • Emotional regulation and resilience

Who is eligible to participate?

The program is open to mothers who have a child (adolescent or adult) affected by addiction or mental illness. Participants do not need prior therapy experience—only a commitment to healing.

How does The Healed Mom Program benefit families?

When mothers heal, they become emotionally regulated, grounded, and resilient. These changes improve communication, boundary-setting, and family stability—creating conditions that support the child’s and family’s recovery.

Is this program faith-based?

The program is spiritually inclusive—honoring each participant’s beliefs while integrating evidence-based clinical care. Spiritual renewal is approached as a component of personal meaning and holistic healing.

How can donors and partners support The Healed Mom Program?

Philanthropic contributions fund scholarships, technology access, and clinician training. Donors help expand care for mothers nationwide—turning compassion into measurable community impact.

What kind of commitment is expected from participants?

Participants commit to consistent attendance, engagement, and completion of reflective exercises. Commitment to the process directly impacts therapeutic growth and transformation.

How is spirituality integrated into the program?

Spiritual renewal is woven into the healing process through reflection, mindfulness, and purpose-driven exercises. Participants are encouraged to reconnect with their beliefs and values as sources of strength.

Does The Healed Mom Program work alongside other treatment plans?

Yes. The Healed Mom complements existing treatment plans. Many mothers participate while their children are in rehabilitation or outpatient therapy, aligning maternal recovery with the family’s overall healing.

How does The Healed Mom Program support long-term recovery?

The final phase, Rise, focuses on sustainable wellness, ego strengthening, and relapse prevention. Mothers complete individualized wellness plans to maintain progress.

Is financial assistance or scholarship funding available?

Yes. Through generous donors and partnerships, partial and full scholarships are available for qualifying mothers. Every contribution expands access to care for families in need.