


Radical Self-love: 77 Ways to Practice
77 ways to practice radical self-love “We understand that the practice of radical self-love is paramount to our well-being.” ~ SHE RECOVERS Foundation, Intention & Guiding Principle ~ In celebration of National Recovery Month the following suggestions...

Retire From Team “Rest of Us”
Retire From Team “Rest of Us” at SHE RECOVERS in CHICAGO Patricia Doiron, SHE RECOVERS® Coach & Community Member “Believe me, no one has been more surprised than me to discover that I too am an ordinary woman with extraordinary strength and...


73 Ways to Celebrate & Create a Connection with Yourself in Recovery
73 ways to celebrate and create connection with yourself ( body, mind, emotions & spirit!) “Recovery is a journey to wholeness. We learn to take care of our body, mind, and spirit.” ~ SHE RECOVERS Foundation, Intention & Guiding Principle ~ In celebration of...

The Superpower of Codependency
The Superpower of Codependency By Lisa Wall, Director of Community Engagement & Online Programs | SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Recovery gave me the opportunity to focus on my strengths instead of my defects. It helped me to identify and nurture the more balanced and...

How I Healed My Inner Validation Junkie
How I Healed My Inner Validation Junkie By Arlina Allen, SHE RECOVERS Coach | SHE RECOVERS® Foundation I keep coming back to the idea that there are limitless versions of me and they all see me the way I now see my Mom. I only care about the good parts of her. That’s...

Finding Your Sexy Self in Recovery with Cindi Roberts
Finding Your Sexy Self in Recovery | Mental Health Monday With Cindi Roberts Originally aired on Monday, April 11, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Finding Your Sexy Self in Recovery With Cindi Roberts SHE RECOVERS Coach and Sex Educator, Cindi Roberts, also known as the Sober...

Good Enough Mother with René Syler
Good Enough Mother | Mental Health Monday With René Syler Monday, April 4, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Good Enough Mother With René Syler After 20 plus years of chasing deadlines, Rene Syler discovered the real secret to success in life is just being “good enough”....

Executive Function in Recovery with Lisa Abbott Moore
Executive Function in Recovery | Mental Health Monday With Lisa Abbott Moore Originally Aired on Monday, March 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Executive Function in Recovery With Lisa Abbott Moore Did you know executive function plays into every aspect of our lives? And we...


Galentine’s Day 2022
Galentine’s Day 2022 SHE RECOVERS® Together After Dark Extended Online Gatherings We understand that the practice of radical self love is paramount to our well-being. SHE RECOVERS Intention & Guiding Principle Join the free SHE RECOVERS® Together After Dark...

Emotional Sobriey with Veronica Valli
Emotional Sobriety | Mental Health Monday With Veronica Valli Monday, January 31, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Emotional Sobriety with Veronica Valli What is emotional sobriety? It’s two things: feeling comfortable in your own skin and having appropriate emotional responses to...

You Can Stop Now with Lizi Jackson Barrett
You Can Stop Now | Mental Health Monday With Lizi Jackson Barrett Monday, January 24, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST You Can Stop Now with Lizi Jackson Barrett Lizi was eleven years old when her science teacher told her she was too ugly to feed the worms, triggering decades of...

Shred the Should
Shred the Should | Mental Health Monday With Alex Katz Monday, November 1 @ 11:00 am PST Shred the Should In a society that emphasizes hustle, grind, and productivity, it can be easy to constantly feel like you’re not doing enough, even when you might be doing...

Transforming Wounds Into Scars Through Radical Self Love
Transforming Wounds Into Scars Through Radical Self Love By Mallory Bales “When I look a certain way I am lovable” “When I have an open heart I am lovable” “When I am articulate I am lovable” “When I am perfect I am lovable” Do any of these sound familiar to...


Galentine’s Day 2021
Galentine’s Day 2021 SHE RECOVERS® Together After Dark Extended Online Gatherings We understand that the practice of radical self love is paramount to our well-being. SHE RECOVERS Intention & Guiding Principle Join the free SHE RECOVERS® Together After Dark...

Hope for the Holidays
Hope for the Holidays Community Stories of Hope & Healing | SHE RECOVERS® Foundation All I want for the holidays is donations to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation. Here’s why: They’re lifesavers! I could leave it at that, but I hope you read on to hear how...

My Three Favorite Words of Wisdom
A few years ago I started a new job and during my first staff meeting, I was asked to share one unusual thing about myself. Without hesitation I shared with my new coworkers my love of Suzanne Somers. Now, to the unenlightened, Suzanne Somers is best known as the...

Embracing the Woo Woo in LA
Thank you terror Thank you disillusionment Thank you frailty Thank you consequence Thank you, thank you silence – Alanis Morrissett Oprah Winfrey has given us three of my favorite phrases: vajayjay, Ah ha, and woo woo. Vajayjay and Ah ha are fairly well known...

We Are All Single Mothers
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu When my boys still wore diapers and could not eat grapes safely, we moved to a small seaside town in Italy....

Moving Beyond Botox and Religion
My 200-year present I recently heard a theory about how we each live in a 200-year span of history. You mark the beginning of your span, your “200-year present,” by thinking of the oldest person who could have held you as a baby (my great grandmother, born in 1900)....

The Ultimate Act of Self Care
“Your birth altered my whole posture on this planet … because of you, I couldn’t die and couldn’t monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue – not a job for somebody barely three feet tall.” –– Mary Karr writing about her son in Lit: A Memoir Last...

The Undoing
I’ve come to know and believe that each of us has a soul message that only we can share, and if we don’t discover this message, the world misses out on a beautiful offering. Our message is within us when we are created, and although our childhood and other life...

Three Doors. It’s Your Choice.
Show me a woman in her late 30s/40s, whose life partnership is at least a decade old and whose kid(s) is out of diapers, and I’ll show you a woman who is about to say, “Wait. What?” to her life. This woman has done life mostly by the rules. She did both what was...

Our True Power: The Tool That Saves Us and Our Families
For the past few weeks I have been consumed by negative thoughts about the world and worries about my family. Life’s headlines – both inside and outside of my house – have had me holding my breath, waiting (almost wishing) for “the other shoe” to drop. My son is...

Living Awake: Sarah Blondin and the Unraveling
This is a guest post written by Lori Ann H., who lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada and has been writing/ blogging privately about her recovery since 2016. Mindful Meditation It is fascinating to me the succession of events that come together in our lives by...

Defining Our Stories with Truth and Love
My sons are 12 and 14, and they are fully and completely their ages. This means they are constantly engaged in testing both their limits and mine. A few weeks ago, report cards came home. Things escalated quickly and I could feel my 12-year-old digging his heels into...

The Third Thing You Need: Other People
“To succeed, most people need a community of support.” – Cheryl Strayed Many of us are working on our recovery alone or piecing it together from various programs, therapies and online resources. These tools are powerful, but they do not replace the need for actual...

Self-Care and the Holidays
Keeping track of it all Last weekend I was at a Christmas party at the home of a couple who have two children with special needs. Stephanie, age 7, was born with only one hand. Christopher, age 5, has Down Syndrome. The parents warmly greeted their guests. You could...

Relationships change when you do. It’s scary. And worthwhile. (I think.)
“Relationships change.” My father-in-law’s new wife gifted me with this life truth a few months after she married into our family. I had just honestly and gently shared with her that my husband, her new son-in-law, and his brothers were feeling abandoned by their...
