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.
For siblings and families navigating a loved one’s addiction or substance use. For Love of Recovery features real sibling stories, mental health professionals, and recovery advocates helping you support a loved one without losing yourself.
Host Dominique Dajer shares her own journey supporting her brother through addiction and recovery, and the lessons learned about boundaries, letting go, and what it really means to love someone through it.
Topics: sibling addiction, family roles, enabling, harm reduction, boundaries, recovery, parentification, and generational trauma.
New episode monthly
Drug tests. Revolving doors of rehabs. On and off the street. Judges, and parole officers — to families waiting and hoping for something to change. When a loved one’s treatment is dictated by external forces, why doesn’t it “work”, and what does it look like when it does?
Dr. Sheila Vakharia — researcher, social worker, and author of The Harm Reduction Gap — has worked inside outpatient treatment centers, drug courts, and needle exchange programs, giving her a rare, ground-level view of what actually helps people survive addiction, what gets in the way, and the power families have.
Together we dig into:
Why addiction is the only health condition where people are expected to be ”cured” before treatment even starts
The stigma around methadone and buprenorphine — and why they're not ”trading one drug for another”
How the criminal legal system can be both a lifeline and a barrier to real care
Why courts, insurance gaps, and fear-based messaging keep failing families
What families can actually do — from local pharmacy advocacy to sharing your story with lawmakers and media
📘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: Instagramand TikTok
🎙Guest speaker:Dr. Sheila Vakharia, author and Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance
Episode resources:
Sheila’s book: The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Treatment
Read how you can advocate for your loved one: One parent’s story
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