Out of deep concern for our collective health – in person sharing circles are currently on hold. Visit your city’s Sharing Circle FB Group to stay up to date on virtual gatherings and other announcements.

Learn & share about the practice of recovery!

SHE RECOVERS® Sharing Circles provide supportive, non-judgmental spaces in communities across the world where women from diverse backgrounds can come together to learn and share about the practice of recovery. The Sharing Circles are led by SHE RECOVERS® Coaches.

Our Intentions

To promote collaborative learning environments where SHE RECOVERS® Coaches can better connect, support and empower women in or seeking recovery.
To build healing communities that are diverse both in membership and experience.

To support women to listen more deeply to themselves and others.
To offer opportunities for women to find and use their voice.
To be a community resource for recovery seekers, and a referral point for professionals, service providers and advocates looking to refer clients looking for recovery support.

International Offerings

Sharing Circles (usually hosted by SHE RECOVERS Coaches) are currently on hold due to the pandemic and because we are developing a brand new local chapter strategy. During this in-between time, please join the private Facebook Group (see below) that is located closest to where you live or is somewhere that you are likely to visit as our community members are starting to gather informally in many of these locations for hikes or outdoor coffee visits. Chapters will be starting in many more locations in due course!

UNITED STATES

CANADA

Durham Region

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Nanaimo

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Sea to Sky

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Vancouver

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Victoria

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EUROPE

Haywards Heath

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London

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Paris

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AUSTRALIA

Sydney

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Monthly Recovery Topics

~ FOR 2020 ~

January
Envisioning A New Year

February
Exploring Self-Love and Healthy Relationships

March
Letting Go of Perfect

April
Nurturing our Physical Selves

May
Celebrating Our Strengths

June
Embracing Creativity

July
Saying Yes to Less

August
Developing a Positive Mindset

September
Focusing on Financial Awareness

October
Cultivating Mindfulness

November
Reclaiming Lost Dreams

December
Sharing Our Gifts

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.

Out of deep concern for our collective health – in person sharing circles are currently on hold. Visit your city’s Sharing Circle FB Group to stay up to date on virtual gatherings and other announcements.

Learn & share about the practice of recovery!

Our Intentions

International Offerings

UNITED STATES

Asheville

atlanta

bay area

bellingham

Boston

Cape Cod

Cape Coral

Chicago - Downtown

Chicago - Western Suburbs

Coachella Valley

Dayton

DC Metro Area

Denver

Hartford

Lehigh Valley

Nashville

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Northern Nevada

Sacramento

Santa Rosa

Seattle

TUlsa

upstate new york

CANADA

Durham Region

Nanaimo

Sea to Sky

Vancouver

Victoria

EUROPE

Haywards Heath

London

Paris

AUSTRALIA

Sydney

Monthly Recovery Topics

~ FOR 2020 ~

Shelly Dimitrijevic

Kirsten Newquist

Mary Beth O’Connor

Taryn Strong

Susan Carter

Dawn Nickel

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