a brother stolen by addiction and thriving despite generational trauma with City Girl Gone Mom's Danielle Schaffer
Episode 33 brenda zane Episode 33 brenda zane

a brother stolen by addiction and thriving despite generational trauma with City Girl Gone Mom's Danielle Schaffer

Danielle Lucia Schaffer is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to her business and her family, but not even this determined, dynamic Italian "momshell" who hails from New York City could save her baby brother from the grip of addiction. As founder of the insanely popular blog and Instagram account, City Girl Gone Mom, and host of The Mom Confidential podcast, Danielle puts her mind to something and then makes it happen. But sadly, when it comes to addiction, even when you love someone to the ends of the earth, you can't always save them.

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when your sibling has substance use issues; finding sanity and practicing self-care, with Tina Jayes
Episode 4 brenda zane Episode 4 brenda zane

when your sibling has substance use issues; finding sanity and practicing self-care, with Tina Jayes

I think one of the most important things is you have to talk about these things as much as you can, whether it's to a therapist, whether it's to each other. I mean, when you carry this stuff around, it just is a big heavy burden and you don't even know what it is. But if it was happening to my family now, I would hope to talk to the siblings and give them some information and give them coping tools because that would have been really helpful instead of acting like nothing was happening.

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