Liberate Your Life From The Impact Of Your Child's Addiction
Reclaim Your Strength & Joy.
Rebuild Your Skills.
Recover Your Life.
Compassionate, grounded support for parents ready to move from chaos to calm, set loving and self-honoring boundaries, reclaim their lives, and heal from the impact of their young adult’s addiction and mental illness.
FrancXs Placide
Certified Professional Coach
Personal Development
& Family Recovery
Your Values. Your Voice. Your Health, Peace, and Wellbeing.
You don’t have to do this alone
It’s time to give
yourself peace
Parenting a young adult with a substance use disorder is exhausting. The worry is constant. And for too many parents, the hardest part isn’t just what’s happening at home — it’s feeling like there’s nowhere to turn that actually feels safe.
If you are a Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, or other parent of color — if you are part of an LGBTQ+ family, an immigrant family, or a family navigating financial hardship — you may have already learned the hard way that not every space was built with you in mind. Stigma is real. Discrimination is real. And walking into a room where you have to shrink yourself just to get support? That’s its own kind of exhaustion.
And if you’re a white parent who has simply never found a space that felt honest and judgment-free — you belong here too.
I built this practice because I’ve been that parent. The one who didn’t quite fit the mold of what family recovery was supposed to look like. And I kept hearing the same thing from other parents — I don’t feel seen here. That ends here.
Whether we work together one-on-one or in a group, this is a space where you can speak honestly, show up fully, and learn real tools without having to earn your place or explain your experience. You will be treated with respect — not in spite of who you are, but because of it.
Your healing matters.
I am FrancXs Placide
where you are.
MMS, PA-C
Certified Professional Coach
I am on a mission to help us all find our way back home to ourselves. Because when we heal our own lives, we naturally begin to heal the fractured spaces around us.
I am not a family therapist nor someone who claims to have “triumphed” over addiction. I am a parent. I am also a retired medical provider and 30-year military veteran turned certified professional coach. Today, I am also a fierce advocate for systems to treat people (and their family members) challenged by the disease of addiction with dignity, respect, and whole person-centered care.
When my own child’s struggle with addiction began, I used every tool I had. I did what any responsible parent tries to do: I powered up. I lectured. I yelled, cried, worried and pleaded. I prayed. I loved harder, I punished, and I tried tough love. I tried to control every single variable—their choices, their consequences, their “rock-bottom”. But no matter what I did, I remained completely powerless to “fix” them.
I was so consumed by their storm that I cound not see what it was doing to me. The more energy I poured into fixing my child’s life, the more I lost my own footing. Piece by piece, my identity slipped away until I stopped recognizing the person in the mirror.
The turning point came when I finally stopped trying to fix my child. I looked inward and I realized the truth: my reactions were my issues. My peace, my joy, and my life were never my child’s to define. Their disorder and behaviors did not get to hold the pen to my story.
Out of love and necessity, I had to find my own path to emotional recovery. That’s when everything shifted…
Your healing is yours–
and it’s worth showing up for.
Focusing on self-love and healing yourself can seem selfish, even feel wrong when your young adult is struggling with addiction or mental health challenges. It isn’t. It’s one of the most courageous and helpful things you can do. And it just might be the thing that changes everything for you…and them.
This is a space for parents like you to heal, rediscover yourself, and build a peace that holds– regardless of your child’s journey.
“You have poured so much into loving your child.
It’s time to pour some of that back into you.”
My Approach
My work
begins with you
Watching your child struggle with addiction changes you. The worry never really lets up. Little by little, the line between your child’s pain and struggles, and your own begins to blur and then disappear. Before you know it, your life revolves around keeping them safe, fixing problems that don’t belong to you, and hoping today won’t be the day everything falls apart.
Somewhere along the way, many parents lose themselves. Their joy. Their relationships. Their peace. Sometimes, they even forget who they were before addiction became a part of their familiy’s story. That’s where our work together begins.
Open this drop down to view my approach.
We begin with you.
Not because your child doesn’t matter — they do, deeply. But because you matter too.
Using trauma-informed, strength-based, and relationship-centered approaches, I help parents begin the deeply intentional, sacred, and courageous work of untangling their own well-being from their child’s addiction and it’s associated behaviors. Together we create space for bravery, healing, healthier boundaries, and a life that isn’t defined by fear, uncertainty, and dread.
I’ve walked this road. I know what it feels like to love your child so hard it hollows you out. I know the guilt that can surface the moment you think about your own needs. And I know something else: caring for yourself isn’t giving up on your child. It’s one of the most loving things you can do — for both of you.
Your healing is not a luxury. It is the work. It’s essential to your well-being.
Your life– it’s purpose, relationships, health, joy, freedom, and peace all matters. Reclaim Yourself!
Our Work Together
Three pillars of your healing
Connect: Uncover Your Story
Naming what this season has taken from you is painful, but necessary. Together, we will look at your past with radical self-compassion, refusing to let grief, guilt, or disappointment be the only things that define your life.
Learn: Discover Your Strengths
This is where we dust off the strengths you forgot you had. You will learn to align your days with your actual priorities, practice new boundaries, rediscover who you are when not consumed by your yong adult’s life, and explore how you want to show up in your relationships.
Transform: Recover Your Life
This is the work of building a steady, internal peace– one that belongs entirely to you. You will finally reclaim and recover your life, step out of the dark, find your footing again– and keep it regardless of where your child is in thier journey.
Expressing Some Love
Services
Group Coaching
Positive Mental Fitness Program
Energy Leadership Assessment
Podcast/Speaking Engagements
Person-Centered Care Advocacy
Contact
1-206-888-0157
FrancXsP@PlacideLT.com
Placide Coaching & Consulting
Because the world needs you and we need you to be well.
Transform. Learn. Connect.
