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#99 - How I Stopped Trying to Control Their Addiction and Found Peace with Jennifer B

What happens when someone you love is drinking (or using) and your life starts to fall apart?

In this episode, I sit down with Jennifer for a brutally honest conversation about what it's like to live with addiction in the family — the fear, the anger, the shame, the hyper-vigilance, the "walking on broken glass"… and the moment you realize: I can't fix them. I'm the one who needs help too.

Jennifer shares her real healing journey through Al-Anon: why it didn't click the first time, what finally broke her open, and how the program helped her move from control → caring, interference → love, and…

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