For Love of Recovery
For Love of Recovery
Podcast Description
A monthly dose of hope designed to help siblings and their families better navigate their loved one’s substance use. Each episode features either real-life stories from siblings who share their experiences and strength, or advocates and professionals who lend their unique perspectives from a mental health, substance use or community lens.
Host and founder, Dominique Dajer, shares experiences and sibling resources that have helped her navigate her younger brother's addiction and family experiences, as she continues her journey in self-healing.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes including sibling dynamics affected by addiction, mental health advocacy, and practical coping strategies. Example episodes cover topics such as navigating sibling estrangement during addiction, balancing support with boundaries, and understanding the hidden connections between ADHD and substance use.
A monthly dose of hope designed to help siblings and their families better navigate their loved one’s substance use. Each episode features either real-life stories from siblings who share their experiences and strength, or advocates and professionals who lend their unique perspectives from a mental health, substance use or community lens.
Host and founder, Dominique Dajer, shares experiences and sibling resources that have helped her navigate her younger brother’s addiction and family experiences, as she continues her journey in self-healing.
What does it mean to grieve a parent who is still alive—but was never able to show up the way you needed?
In this episode, Marci Hopkins shares how childhood abuse, emotional neglect, and a parent’s addiction quietly shaped her relationship with alcohol—and how drinking became a way to survive grief she didn’t yet have language for.
For years, Marci’s drinking didn’t look extreme or chaotic. It looked normal. It looked functional. It looked like coping.
As many people enter Dry January questioning their own relationship with alcohol, this conversation offers a deeper lens—one that moves beyond willpower or labels and into the emotional roots of why we drink.
We talk about:
- How alcohol can become a socially acceptable way to numb unresolved trauma
- Grieving the parent you needed, not just the one you had
- Why addiction often masks deeper grief and unmet childhood needs
- Letting go of the hope that someone will one day become who you needed them to be
- Finding peace and sobriety without the closure you thought you’d need
This episode is for anyone who has loved someone struggling with addiction, questioned their own drinking, or felt the quiet, complicated grief of losing someone—while they’re still alive.
📘Download our FREE, sibling e-book: 6 actions to help navigate a sibling’s substance use journey
🤝Join our FREE and PRIVATE sibling-focused community: Siblings For Love of Recovery
📲Connect with FLOR: Instagram and TikTok
🎙Guest speaker: Marci Hopkins
Related content:
- Marci’s book:“Chaos to Clarity: Seeing the Signs and Breaking the Cycles”
Family resources: Shatterproof
- Find a family group: Al-Anon Family Groups
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