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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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
This episode is for anyone navigating a sibling's addiction, early sobriety, or the complicated road of family recovery.
A year ago, I wasn't sure where my brother Justin would be today — or if he'd make it to his 21st birthday.
This episode, releasing in honor of National Sibling Day (April 10th), is one I've been waiting to record for a long time. Justin is 21, one year sober, and six months into a long-term young adult treatment program — and for the first time, he's sharing his story of addiction and early sobriety in his own words.
We recorded this together during a family visit upstate, and what came out of it was more honest, more raw, and more hopeful than I could have scripted.
We talk about:
- What the past year of young adult addiction recovery has actually looked like — the hard parts and the proud ones
- How drug addiction shaped his relationships, his sense of self, and what friendship even means
- The loneliness and shame in early sobriety that don't get talked about enough
- What he wishes people understood about addiction before judging someone going through it
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🎙Guest speaker: Justin Dajer
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