Body Aware: Bringing the Body Into Mental Health | Mental Health Monday Movement Therapist & ‘Body Aware’ Author, Erica Hornthal Monday, January 9, 2023 @ 11:00 am PST Body Aware: Bringing the Body Into Mental Health | #MentalHealthMonday Erica...
Weaving your 2023 Recovery Patchwork | Mental Health Monday With Aubrey Mescher Monday, January 2, 2023 @ 11:00 am PST Weaving your 2023 Recovery Patchwork | #MentalHealthMonday “It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights,...
Amplifying Women’s Stories in Recovery Advocacy SAVE THE DATE | IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY The SHE RECOVERS® Foundation invites you to write a new story this March in honor of International Women’s Day. As women, our stories of recovery are about...
The Power in Healthy Boundaries | Mental Health Monday With Darlene Lancer Originally Aired on Monday, November 21, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST The Power in Healthy Boundaries Healthy boundaries are a critical tool in our recovery toolbox. If we are to succeed in overcoming...
Movement = Medicine Celebration With the SHE RECOVERS Community Movement=Medicine We know that trauma lives in our tissues and the body has its own story to tell. In order to heal, one of the most powerful things we can do is move. Movement is a unique and...
A Fellowship of People: Recovery and Gender Roles | Mental Health Monday With Marya Hornbacher Originally Aired on Monday, October 3, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST A Fellowship of People: Recovery and Gender Roles Gender is often a core part of identity, and, like other aspects...
Unlocking the Mystery of Why We Do What We in Relationships | Mental Health Monday With Rosemary O’Connor Monday, September 12, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Releasing the Chains that Bind You: Unlocking the Mystery of Why We Do What We in Relationships with Rosemary...
The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts | Mental Health Monday With Elizabeth Bishop Originally Aired on Monday, August 1, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts with Elizabeth Bishop Service is energy, expression, and action....
UnAddicted to You: Loving through the Darkness | Mental Health Monday With Etel Leit Originally Aired on Monday, June 27, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST UnAddicted to You: Loving through the Darkness with Etel Leit Addiction doesn’t just impact the person struggling with...
Who’s Driving Your Bus? : Family Systems | Mental Health Monday With Margaret Swift Thompson Originally Aired on Monday, June 20, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Who’s Driving Your Bus? : Family Systems with Margaret Swift Thompson If there are 21 million people in...
Grief is Love | Mental Health Monday With Marisa Renee Lee Originally Aired on Monday, June 13, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Grief is Love with Marisa Renee Lee Marisa Renee Lee has an eye-popping resume: Harvard grad, Wall Street whiz kid, staffer in the Obama Administration...
Codependency: Why Others Are Sometimes So Much More Important Than Ourselves | Mental Health Monday With Beverly Conyers Originally Aired on Monday, June 6, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Codependency: Why Others Are Sometimes So Much More Important Than Ourselves With Hazelden...
The 5 Stages of Healing | Mental Health Monday With Jill Rathburn Originally Aired on Monday, May 23, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST The 5 Stages of Healing With Jill Rathburn Just as there is a progression of addiction, there is a progression of recovery. In fact, recovery is a...
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 | 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...
If You Leave Me, Can I Come With You? | Mental Health Monday With Misti B Monday, March 21, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST If You Leave Me, Can I Come With You? with Misti B “If You Leave Me, Can I Come with You?” is the rally cry, the anthem, the reason-to-be for codependents...
If there’s anything we, who are in recovery, understand – it’s introversion. There’s a common thing that happens when many of us stop drinking or enter recovery, the process of finding out what our true interests are. It’s not unusual to realize maybe going out...
Navigating ADHD in Recovery | Mental Health Monday With Irina Gonzalez Originally Aired on Monday, March 14, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Navigating ADHD in Recovery with Irina Gonzalez Irina knows intimately about the intersections of recovery, mental health, and parenthood....
Celebrating Women in Recovery | Mental Health Monday With Caroline Beidler Originally Aired on Monday, March 7, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Celebrating Women in Recovery with Caroline Beidler Caroline has created the first Women’s Recovery Round Table Event in honor of...
Not the Same Old Song and Dance | Mental Health Monday With Annie McCullough Originally Aired on Monday, February 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am PST Not the Same Old Song and Dance with Annie McCullough Annie is not new to recovery and she understands the ebb and flow of...
Let’s Normalize Therapy: BetterHelp 101 | Mental Health Monday With HaeSue Jo of BetterHelp Monday, December 13 @ 11:00 am PST Let’s Normalize Therapy | BetterHelp 101 Finding professional help such as an online therapist shouldn’t be hard. No...
Finding Our Way Home Through Trauma Informed Dance By Payton Kennedy, SHE RECOVERS Dance Creator | SHE RECOVERS® Foundation National Dance Day is an annual celebration dedicated to dance, that encourages individuals of all ages to incorporate dance into their lives....
CBD Made Simple: What You Need to know About Hemp-Derived CBD By First Crop “CBD, which stands for cannabidiol, is a natural, non-intoxicating compound that is predominately found in hemp extract. Although one of many phytocannabinoids found in hemp, CBD is the most...
Greenhouses of Grace By Elora M. Kindred, SHE RECOVERS® Coach in training, SHE RECOVERS Friend of the Foundation, & SHE RECOVERS Support for BIWOC Community Member “At first glance, I am a middle-aged Black woman. Belonging to a fellowship such as the SHE...
22 Recovery-Focused Black, Indigenous, & Women of Color to Follow Every person deserves to feel seen and heard. This is true in relationships, work places, families, and it’s especially true in recovery. In order for that to happen, people need to see themselves...
LGBTQIA2+ Recovery Matters. Shout Out the Truth! By Elizabeth A. Stanard, Community Member, SHE RECOVERS® Foundation “As we celebrate Pride this month, let’s shout out the truth that LGBTQIA2+ recovery matters. Until we identify and eradicate all of the systemic,...
The Impact of Pronouns in Women’s Recovery Spaces Honoring Trans Women & Non-Binary Individuals in the SHE RECOVERS® Community SHE RECOVERS® Foundation She / Her / Hers + They / Them / Theirs are pronouns you will hear resonating within the SHE RECOVERS...
Genes, Addiction, & Personality (GAP) Study SHE RECOVERS® is proud to share our support and recruitment effort for VCU’s “The Genes, Addiction, and Personality” (GAP) study. As a person in long term recovery who also just happens to be a (former) researcher...
Understanding Harm Reduction September is Recovery Month and interviewing Michelle Bilan about Harm Reduction was definitely a highlight of the month for me. Michelle, a member of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is an RN, BN, MN, ACRN and has worked in Saskatchewan...
We are so excited to share this guest post by Ester Nicholson. Ester is a recovery coach, author, speaker and recording artist. You can find more about her and her work at her website, esternicholson.com. You can also listen to this post, and the beautiful prayer she...
Shelly Dimitrijevic’s professional and philanthropic activities have always focused on improving the lives of others. She began her nursing career at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis and went on to become a LifeFlight nurse specializing in neonatal, pediatric, and cardiovascular intensive care.
Shelly has been involved with numerous charities focusing on children and education including the Charlee and the Chocolate Factory gala, The Venus Orbit, Design For A Cure, Jackson Memorial, and Impact Oasis. In 2010 she founded the Lotus program, a program that focused on educating parents on the nutritional needs of children and basic child development. Shelly also served on the Frost Science Museum gala committee for 7 years before Co-Chairing the event in 2015.
After a diagnosis of Celiac disease and subsequently receiving Certification as a Nutritional Consultant, Shelly recognized that topically applied products have an effect on her Celiac Disease and overall health. She turned her focus to developing skincare that was free of toxic and hormone-disrupting ingredients.
Since she lost her only sibling in 2012 Shelly has been determined to find a way to contribute to the recovery community in a way that can make a great impact and ensure that others have the resources necessary when they are struggling.
Shelly's substantial contributions to SHE RECOVERS of both time and resources have been instrumental and deeply appreciated.
As a result of being introduced to SHE RECOVERS through retreats and meet-ups, Kirsten will be starting her yoga teacher training in the fall. These retreats also led her to become more deeply involved with SHE RECOVERS in a volunteer capacity. Kirsten was instrumental in setting up some of the Foundation's grassroots groups and currently volunteers her time helping SHE RECOVERS Foundation to design and implement the Volunteer Chapter Network.
Kirsten and her husband recently moved from Southern California to Roswell, Georgia to be closer to Kirsten's sister and two young nieces. When she isn't spending time being an aunt, you can find Kirsten hanging out with their rescue Labrador or exploring their new state.
Mary Beth is a founding member of SHE RECOVERS Support for Legal Professionals and is active at the local level with SHE RECOVERS in the Bay Area. Mary Beth has been living a sober life in recovery for over 26 years. She also has a history of trauma and abuse, from which she’s worked hard to recover as well. 6 years into her recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014 Mary Beth was appointed an Administrative Law Judge. She recently retired, so she could devote her time to completing her writing and being more active in the recovery community.
She regularly speaks on behalf of LifeRing and develops relationships with organizations supportive of the multiple pathways approach. In August 2020, Mary Beth had an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, I Beat Addiction without God, where she described building a personal recovery plan by combining ideas from LifeRing, Women for Sobriety, and Narcotics Anonymous. In November 2020 she had an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I was a federal judge, and I support Safehouse. Here’s why. She is currently working on a full-length memoir.
Taryn Strong is a founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, recovery coach, aromatherapist, and herbalist (and daughter to Mama Dawn). Taryn has developed a unique yoga retreat program and led over 40 yoga for recovery retreats since 2012. She is also the host of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast and most recently created and taught the inaugural trauma-informed SHE RECOVERS Yoga Teacher Training Program. Operating from a trauma-informed lens and a firm believer in anti-oppressive practices, Taryn brings an empathic and invitational approach to healing - empowering women to find and follow individualized pathways and patchworks of recovery.
Taryn's courageous vulnerability and passion for recovering out-loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement - smashing the stigma often associated with substance use and mental health issues. Taryn creates and lives with her beloved and two dogs within the ancestral and unceded traditional territory of the Hul’qumi’num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples (Saltspring Island).
Susan is an architect of hope and healing with over 30 years of experience in providing executive-level leadership to heart-centered teams in the non-profit realm. Since joining SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as Executive Director in April 2020, Susan continues to weave her experience with her passion to help other women receive what she has been so graciously given – long-term recovery from substance use disorder, body image issues, codependency, perfectionism, and moral injury.
Susan’s work in the treatment industry quickly revealed how stigma kept women struggling with mental health issues and addiction from seeking help, and the lack of resources available to them once they did. Having served as a founding employee of Susan G. Komen for the Cure for 20 years, playing an integral role in creating the global grassroots movement that changed the way breast cancer is talked about and treated, she felt called to utilize that experience to do the same for women struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.
Celebrating more than 27 years of continuous sobriety, Susan is a Certified Peer Support Worker (CPSW) in the state of New Mexico to provide resources and peer support to those in or seeking recovery. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her fur family of four, Alex, Chaco, Bodhi, and Gracie.
Dawn Nickel, Founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation, is a thought leader in the women's recovery sphere as well as an accomplished leader, dedicated researcher, and visionary in the recovery moment. She holds a Ph.D. in health care policy with extensive experience in researching and writing about women experiencing substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and intimate partner violence. Dawn started her own journey of recovery from a substance use disorder and domestic violence in 1987. She is also in recovery from anxiety, grief, trauma, overworking, and cancer. Dawn's tell-it-like-it-is wisdom has created a ripple effect where you will often hear her quotes "the shit you did is just the shit you did - it's not who you are" and "recovering from all the things" resonating throughout many recovery realms.
Currently working on her first book, Dawn is living proof that in a world where all women in or seeking recovery are celebrated, supported, and deemed essential to healthy communities - anything is possible. She is fondly referred to as Mama Dawn in the SHE RECOVERS Community and to her daughters Taryn and Ashley. Dawn lives, works, and plays with her beloved grandchildren on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen speaking peoples on Vancouver Island.
Nika is just one of more than 325,000 women in the She Recovers Community.
“Alcohol is what brought me into recovery but for me, it didn't tell the full story. That is why I love SHE RECOVERS so much. We don't just talk about our demons and the drugs and the alcohol, we talk about the real issues that led us to using those things in the first place.”— Nika
When she was ready to deal with her past traumas and what drove her to drink, SHE RECOVERS was there. Sadly an estimated 34 million women are suffering from mental health/substance use disorders.