Iyanla: Fix My Dysfunctional Sisterhood

Iyanla: Fix My Life

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Iyanla travels to San Antonio, Texas, to help two sisters, Barbara and Geneva, who are in total breakdown—one was raised uptown by loving, affluent parents; the other was raised downtown in the housing projects. Fifty-eight-year-old businesswoman Barbara wants to rebuild the relationship with the sister she says was sleeping with her boyfriend for years, eventually having a second child with him. For Barbara, her sister's actions were unforgivable, but Iyanla understands there are always two sides to every story. Meeting on neutral ground at a rental home outside San Antonio, Iyanla brings the two sisters together with the hope of helping each sister see the other from a new and different perspective. Later, Iyanla sits down with Geneva's daughter Antoinette (whose father was Barbara's boyfriend) and discovers that Antoinette is repeating her mother’s negative cycle, including getting pregnant at a young age.

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0:00.0	Let me tell you who I am.
0:02.0	I am a survivor, a teenage mother, a welfare recipient, and a woman.
0:08.0	I am a teacher, life coach, minister, lawyer, and author.
0:13.0	I've had my share of breakups, breakdowns, and breakthroughs.
0:18.0	I did my work and put my life back together piece by piece. I am I
0:23.1	am I Yonla Van Zandt, and I am here to help you do your work. So I am in San Antonio, Texas,
0:32.4	to do the work with two women, sisters, who are in total breakdown.
0:40.3	One raised uptown by loving affluent parents,
0:45.1	and another one raised downtown by the streets.
0:48.4	Barbara is a 58-year-old businesswoman
0:50.5	who wants to rebuild trust with the sister she says was sleeping with her boyfriend behind her back for years.
0:58.0	It got very ugly. It got very ugly. A lot of things happened. Unforgivable things.
1:05.0	Barbara is one of 18 siblings born into poverty. But when she was 11 months old,
1:11.6	she says her mother gave her away to a wealthy aunt and uncle.
1:15.6	I went to private schools.
1:17.6	I had the best.
1:18.6	I had beautiful dolls and clothes and all of those things.
1:23.6	Meanwhile, Barbara's sister Geneva says she was raised by their mother in the projects.
1:29.3	At the age of 17, Barbara moved into her own house and asked if 9-year-old Geneva could come and live with her.
1:37.3	And we were inseparable. You know, I was more of a mother than I was a sister.
1:42.3	But years later, while living under her roof,
1:45.0	Barbara says her boyfriend and Geneva
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