I've got you!!
I'm also guessing you would like to rewind time and react in a different way.
In the beginning your fear of what porn use means usually runs the show. Fear is not the emotion we want to fuel our relationships with our kids or their porn use.
You also might be feeling like you failed them.
If only you would have had more safe guards in place, not given your child a phone, or internet access.
That might all be true or not true but here we are and we want to help our child navigate porn use from a place of self love and compation. What you may not know is porn use makes our kids feel so crappy about themselves. Porn messes with their feelings of worth. Shame begins to run the show in their lives and making choices from shame will always bring them back to porn. We want to empower them, and you as the parent has so much to offer them to help them leave the shame cycle and begin to let their higher brain make decisions and begin to rebuild their self worth. We need to show them they have infinite worth, and their worth does not change with porn use. We also want to help them understand that porn use can affect future relationships and the relationship they have with themselves when unmanaged.
If you didn't show up for your child like you hoped you would, I'm here to tell you it's ok!
It's not to late to help your child navigate this in a shame free way that will create a life without porn use.
I will teach you how to help your child stop the shame.
But it starts with you, we have to clean up your shame first! Your child will follow your lead.
The way we show up for our teen is everything.
I will help you help your child find the root cause of why they keep going back to porn.
Wanting to look at porn is not the problem. Knowing how to manage urges and making a plan of how they will manage urges is actually what is helpful.
Your teen needs help creating new beliefs about themselves. I'll help you help them to know how to do that. As the parent you have more power than you think. Your power does not come from giving your kid more rules and regulations. Your power actually comes from you being a safe place to fall for your teen.
Your job is to be their cheerleader and remind them of who they are as they navigate this new space of having their porn use brought to light.