Owner of "The Unexpected Path Your Child is Walking." Focused coaching for parents of addicts. It is time we recognize and understand the crisis that childhood addiction creates within the family, and address it properly. Having had her own personal experience as a mother, Life Coach Cheryl Frei found out the hard way, there was just no one out there who had a clue what a parent is feeling and experiencing, let alone having anything to offer to relieve a parents emotional suffering.