
[Unedited] Brené Brown with Krista Tippett (2013)
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is It Right That Your Mother Was an Alcoholic?
"i didn't grow up around an immediate in my immediate family, so i didn't really see it or understand it," she says. "I had a propensity to be kind of a wild party girl, and so i thought, this is no good." Her mother was alcoholic; her grandmother also struggled with addiction. She found help at codependent meetings after finding a sponsor who said: I'm going called the poo poo platter of addictions'
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