Mental Health Mondays - SHE RECOVERS® Foundation

We believe that when women heal, families heal, and communities do too.

The #MentalHealthMonday Educational Series features today’s leaders in women’s wellness, mental health, and addiction recovery.

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Monday, November 21 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

The Power in Healthy Boundaries with Darlene Lancer

Healthy boundaries are a critical tool in our recovery toolbox. If we are to succeed in overcoming substance use and creating a life of fulfillment and peace, we must practice asserting our boundaries to build our self-esteem and grow our potential. Join popular author, addiction and codependency expert, and marriage and family therapist, Darlene Lancer, for this insightful look at the importance of boundaries in your life.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Darlene will help us learn:

The cause and impact of poor boundaries
The steps to developing healthy boundaries
The ten signs you are recovering your autonomy in relationships with others

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Monday, October 3 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

A Fellowship of People: Recovery and Gender Roles with Marya Hornbacher

Gender is often a core part of identity, and, like other aspects of identity, it fundamentally shapes our perception of ourselves and each other and our experience of being in the world. From the earliest recovery literature to the most contemporary recovery meetings, gender roles have affected and continue to affect both individual recovery and recovery communities. Please join Marya Hornbacher for this insightful, lively, and engaging look at the role of gender in recovery.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Marya will help us learn:

Our own conscious and unconscious assumptions about gender roles, and how those may be influencing our choices, behaviors, and beliefs in recovery.
How gender and gender bias can affect our interactions in recovery, and how we can detach from unhealthy dynamics without losing access to the valuable insights and fellowship the recovery community can provide.
Ways in which we can make recovery more accessible to newcomers and more effective for ourselves by gaining insight about gender bias and moving toward a more equitable recovery for all.

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Monday, September 12 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

Releasing the Chains that Bind You: Unlocking the Mystery of Why We Do What We in Relationships with Rosemary O’Connor

With over twenty-two years of personal recovery and professional expertise, Rosemary has studied the single most important factor that holds back mothers and fathers from having great relationships with their kids, CEO’s from helping their company thrive, partners from having greater intimacy, and a critical reason people with substance use disorders return to use. It’s the same reason for every single one. It’s the fact that the most important skill on the planet is the ability to build great relationships and have healthy communication with the people in their life.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Rosemary will help us learn:

Why people do what they do in relationships
How individual history may harm relationships.
Uncover tools to improve relationships with others.
Understanding the importance of boundaries and communication skills

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Monday, August 1 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts with Elizabeth Bishop

Service is energy, expression, and action. Whether traditional, alternative, or informal, we can all contribute to the world in ways that have personal meaning, cultivate joy and fulfillment, and have an impact. Service is a self-filled and self-responsive act as opposed to one of sacrifice and depletion. In this session, we’ll explore how service is personally expressed, how joy and fulfillment are inherent to the experience of wellness, and how natural sensitivity is a superpower. Developing self-responsive behavior is a deeply personally honoring practice safeguarding us against the risk of self-abandonment which may result in the desire to escape or numb through various forms of substance use and/or co-dependent behavior.

During this engaging session of #MentalHealthMonday Elizabeth will help us learn:

The true definition of service and how is it expressed in your life
The importance of joy and fulfillment in wellbeing and as a roadmap for contribution
Why sensitivity is a superpower
How to identify characteristics of self-abandonment and self-responsive behavior

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Shelly Dimitrijevic

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.

Kirsten Newquist

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 O'Connor

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

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 Carter

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

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.

Upcoming Sessions

Monday, November 21 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

The Power in Healthy Boundaries with Darlene Lancer

Previous Sessions

Monday, October 3 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

A Fellowship of People: Recovery and Gender Roles with Marya Hornbacher

Monday, September 12 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

Releasing the Chains that Bind You: Unlocking the Mystery of Why We Do What We in Relationships with Rosemary O’Connor

Monday, August 1 @ 11:00 am PST | 2:00pm EST

The Expressions of Service: Exploring Our Gifts with Elizabeth Bishop

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