Episode 15: Part 2 with My Brother: Recovery, Family, and Midlife

In part two of this conversation, Lara welcomes her brother Joel back to the podcast after his recent health scare. With Joel slowly feeling more like himself, they talk about recovery, parenting, childhood roles, divorce, emotional awareness, and how two siblings can grow up in the same family but have completely different experiences.

Lara shares more about how becoming the emotional glue in her family shaped her relationships and sense of self, while Joel reflects on resilience, raising emotionally aware boys, and why he tends to keep his eyes on the road ahead instead of looking back for too long.

It’s funny, honest, emotional, and full of the kind of sibling banter that can only happen when there’s a whole lifetime underneath it.

In this episode:

• Joel’s recovery update
• How divorce affected them differently
• The weight of being the “responsible” child
• Emotional awareness in parenting
• How childhood patterns can show up in adult relationships
• Sibling healing, humor, and hard truths