SHE RECOVERS Podcast: Recent Episodes
SHE RECOVERS®
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.SHE RECOVERS has launched a partnership with BetterHelp to provide accessible and individualized therapy to those seeking healing.We are honored to offer our listeners a 35% discount on the first month of therapy @ BetterHelp until December 31. Register at betterhelp.com/srf. SHE RECOVERS is grateful to BetterHelp for making a $100,000 donation in support of our mission in 2021.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation co-founder Dawn Nickel sits down with author, speaker, and visual artist Jen Pastiloff to talk about living openly, deafness, leaving a marriage, finding a partner, parenting through recovery, and why "the school of whatever works" matters more than any single path to healing.
In this episode, Jen shares her own honest, unfiltered story of getting sober eighteen months ago after decades of denial and resistance to change. And dives into her latest book Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life.
This conversation is funny, raw, and full of permission giving!
IN THIS EPISODE
- How Dawn and Jen first connected ahead of the (twice-postponed) SHE RECOVERS in MIAMI conference
- Living openly as a deaf woman, and why Jen now leads with what used to cause her shame
- Jen's path from NYU and a 14-year-summer-job waitressing, through yoga teacher training, to writing and painting
- The Jenisms: You get to have this, I've done love, imaginary time gods, heart sight, and may I remember
- The unfiltered truth about getting sober: the night she sat in a hotel bar before giving a recovery keynote
- Why twelve-step meetings work for millions, and why they were never the right fit for Jen
- "The school of whatever works" — non-alcoholic wine, individualized pathways, and zero judgment
- Dissociation, eating disorder patterns, and how addiction can shift forms over a lifetime
- Parenting her son Charlie through her sobriety, and what's changed in her marriage and relationships
- Jen’s retreats in Ojai, California and Tuscany, Italy, her Substack and book club, and how she connected SHE RECOVERS to its own future Italy retreat venue
ABOUT JEN:
Jennifer Pastiloff is the author of the bestselling books Proof of Life and On Being Human. Jennifer travels the globe as a public speaker, one-of-a-kind workshop facilitator, and retreat host.
Author of the popular Substack, also called Proof of Life, she teaches writing and creativity classes and workshopswhen she isn’t painting and selling her art.
Pastiloff has been featured on Good Morning America and Katie Couric, and in New York, People, Shape, and Health magazines. She is known for her authenticity and unique voice. Jennifer is deaf, reads lips, and mishears almost everything, but what she hears is usually funnier (at least she thinks so).
EPISODE RESOURCES:
- Website — jenniferpastiloff.com
- Proof of Life with Jen Pastiloff — proofoflifewithjen.substack.com
- Instagram — @jenpastiloff & @jenpastiloff_art
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges, including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful, please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
In this honest, open, and reflective conversation, Sunday Times bestselling author, journalist, and podcast host Clover Stroud joins Mandy Manners, SHE RECOVERS Trusted Advisor and Coach, to discuss writing as a tool for recovery, letting go of shame through sharing our story, and how it can help as a way to connect with and help others.
Clover talks about her process as a writer to connect with her emotions and how it has helped her through grief, motherhood, and change. She talks about what has shifted since becoming sober. How she has found it a powerful tool for creativity and connection. Clover discusses how her sister Nell inspired her sobriety journey in the years before she sadly died from cancer at the age of 46 in 2019.
Together, Clover and Mandy discuss growing up in the UK in the 90s and the hedonism of that time, especially both growing up in the English countryside. They discuss what home means to them whilst living abroad, which was the subject of Clover’s fourth book, The Giant on the Skyline, and how belonging may not necessarily be a place or a person, but a specific feeling. Clover talks about learning to find new ways to connect in sobriety through crafts and her Substack community. She discusses what being sober has given her in terms of connection with her children and her marriage, and how it is something she feels proud to talk about.
About Clover:
Clover Stroud is a Sunday Times bestselling writer, journalist, and host of her own podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story, and third book, The Red of My Blood, were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated amongst the best books of the year in which they were published. Her fourth memoir, The Giant on the Skyline, was published in May 2024. Having spent the past three years living in Washington, DC, with her husband and the youngest three of her five children, she recently returned to her UK home in Oxfordshire.
https://www.cloverstroud.com/
https://www.instagram.com/clover.stroud
https://cloverstroud.substack.com/
https://shows.acast.com/tiny-acts-of-bravery
About Mandy:
Mandy Manners is a certified life and recovery coach. A qualified coach supervisor, trainer, speaker, and author. She is a certified SHE RECOVERS Coach and Trusted Advisor for Education and Pedagogy for the SHE RECOVERS Foundation.
https://www.mandymanners.com
Resources Mentioned in Episode:
https://sherecovers.org/recovery-storytelling-workshop/
SHE RECOVERS Retreat: From Memory to Memoir
Looking to heal with writing or recover with words?
Find your voice, write your recovery, or begin your memoir on retreat with award-winning author and psychotherapist Ann Dowsett Johnston.
Over 5 days in a cozy chalet in the maple forest of Québec, you’ll explore healing through daily writing practice, embodied movement, nature, deep rest, and meaningful connection with like-hearted folks.
Step into your story this autumn. Explore this retreat here.
About SHE RECOVERS® Foundation
SHE RECOVERS Foundation is a non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving thousands of women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges, including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful and you are able, please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Taryn Strong sits down with coach, breathwork facilitator, and Decolonize and Rize Co-founder Ariana Fotinakis — a woman whose truly integrated healing journey weaves together sobriety, burnout recovery, cultural reclamation, and nervous system awareness.
Ariana shares the quiet but pivotal mirror moment that led her to get sober after a decade of drinking and substance use. She expounds upon years of trading alcohol for fitness and work, and the breathwork session six years into her sobriety that she now considers the true beginning of her recovery. Ariana also opens up about growing up as the daughter of a Sixties Scoop survivor, carrying internalized shame and what it has meant, and still means, to reclaim her roots and find belonging on her own terms.
Ariana's powerful conviction that healing our nervous systems and healing our world are not separate endeavors, and that gentleness, not intensity, is often the most radical and lasting path forward for our individual, collective, and global recovery.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Getting sober after 10 years of drinking and substance use — without hitting a dramatic rock bottom
- The mirror moment — really seeing yourself and knowing something has to change
- Trading alcohol for fitness and work — and how cross-addiction and escapism can quietly shift forms
- Burnout as a turning point and the body's wisdom in forcing us to slow down
- The first breathwork experience that cracked open everything numbed and unfelt
- Why gentle, nervous-system-informed breathwork can be more transformative than intense sessions
- Being the daughter of a Sixties Scoop survivor — what that history means personally, physically, and relationally
- Growing up disconnected from Indigenous identity— internalizing shame in the absence of culture or representation
- The ongoing journey of cultural reclamation — finding community, returning to the land, being led by willingness
- Belonging vs. assimilation — why true belonging never asks you to leave parts of yourself behind
- The Seven Generations principle and how it invites slowness, intention, and long-horizon thinking
- Bridging nervous system healing with social and systemic change — and the tensions that can emerge
- "Hard on systems, soft on people" — a framework for creating change without replicating harm
- Ariana's June 30th workshop in SHE RECOVERS Foundation’s Inclusive Recovery Training: Anti-Racist Spaces of Belonging Series — Decolonizing Recovery: Belonging with Body, Land & Community with Ariana Fotinakis
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Ariana Fotinakis: coaching, breathwork, and more
- Decolonize and Rize: programs and resources for individuals, teams, and organizations
- Follow Ariana on Instagram: @arianafotinakis
- June 30 - SHE RECOVERS Foundation’s Inclusive Recovery Training: Anti-Racist Spaces of Belonging — Decolonizing Recovery: Belonging with Body, Land & Community with Ariana Fotinakis (sign up for newsletter for more details soon!)
ABOUT ARIANA
Ariana Fotinakis (she/her) is the Co-founder of Decolonize and Rize, a trauma-responsive coach, breathwork facilitator, and devoted advocate for decolonized well-being. With Anishinaabe (Aamjiwnaang) and Greek ancestry and as the daughter of a Sixties Scoop survivor, she is deeply committed to reclaiming her roots and supporting others on their journeys of healing and transformation. For over a decade, Ariana has worked with hundreds of individuals and organizations globally, offering a grounded and compassionate approach to personal and collective change. Her work integrates nervous system awareness, cultural reclamation, and systemic change, creating spaces where people and teams can build resilience, deepen self-awareness, and cultivate sustainable well-being.
ABOUT SHE RECOVERS® Foundation
We are a non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
In this rigorously honest conversation, author, speaker, advocate, and young woman in recovery Emi Nietfeld joins Dr. Tiffany Wynn to challenge the cultural narratives that equate suffering with strength and healing with achievement. Together, they explore what it means to reject recovery as a redemption arc and to release the pressure to turn pain into proof of worth.
Emi shares her journey through foster care, homelessness, and significant mental health struggles, alongside the complex reality of later achieving many of the success markers society celebrates. She reflects on the dissonance of being seen as a story of resilience while still living with the lasting impacts of trauma, and how ambition can become entangled with survival, shame, and the need to justify one’s suffering.
Together, Emi and Dr. Tiffany unpack the myths of toxic resilience culture, including the expectation that trauma survivors package their pain into inspirational narratives. They explore the importance of creating communities where young women can be honest about struggling without feeling broken or behind, and how healing is shaped not only by individual effort, but by systems, relationships, and spaces that offer truth, connection, and a sense of belonging.
Woven throughout the conversation are reflections from Emi’s memoir, Acceptance, and a reminder that recovery is not about becoming stronger, more successful, or more palatable in the aftermath of pain. It is about telling the truth, being witnessed in our humanity, and remembering that we are always worthy of love and belonging—even when we are still healing.
About Emi
Emi Nietfeld is the author of Acceptance (Penguin Press, 2022), a memoir chronicling her journey through foster care and homelessness while interrogating the true meanings of resilience, ambition, and success.
After graduating from Harvard in 2015, she worked as a software engineer, an experience she wrote about in her viral New York Times essay, “After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.”
Emi’s passionate about mental health, helping young people navigate their careers, and the connection between engineering and creativity. A dynamic, sought-after speaker, she regularly appears on podcasts, delivers conference keynotes, and speaks at universities and companies.
Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Teen Vogue, Fortune, The Information, and other publications, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, noted in The Best American Essays, and taught in classrooms from high schools to MFA programs.
Connect with Emi: https://www.eminietfeld.com/
About Dr. Tiffany
Dr. Tiffany Wynn is a behavioral health leader with a PhD in Counsellor Education who focuses on trauma and resiliency, behavioral management, leadership, and professional development.
She serves as trainer and consultant for academic and treatment organizations and is also a woman in long-term recovery.
Connect with Dr. Tiffany Wynn: https://www.newexperiencescc.com/
Episode Resources:
- SHE RECOVERS Support for the Next Generation: https://sherecovers.org/support-for-the-next-generation/
- Acceptance, A Memoir: https://www.eminietfeld.com/books
- “After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.” New York Times Essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opinion/google-job-harassment.html
In this honest and deeply human conversation, speaker, author, prevention advocate, and Executive Director of RISE TOGETHER, Nadine Machkovech, joins Lisa Wall of Mission Programs & Community Care at SHE RECOVERS. Together, they explore what becomes possible when we loosen our grip on perfection and the pressure to hold it all together as recovery advocates, leaders, mothers, partners, and friends. They reflect on recovering out loud with honesty and courageous vulnerability as a pathway to healing, connection, and empowerment.
Nadine shares her journey of entering recovery in her early twenties, navigating the expectations of being a visible voice in the recovery space, and the profound loss of her teenage son to overdose. She speaks to the turning points that invited her to stop hiding her pain and grief, and to the role that connection and storytelling have played in her healing, especially in reaching and supporting the next generation.
Together, Nadine and Lisa delve into what it means to redefine recovery, to listen to intuition as a guide, and to permit ourselves to show up just as we are. They also offer a clear reminder that we do not have to wait to hit rock bottom to pursue recovery.
Woven throughout the conversation are reflections from Nadine’s book, Enough Already: A Journey from Hiding to Healing, along with an invitation to consider authenticity, community, and self-compassion as essential forms of recovery medicine. Nadine reminds us that no one should have to navigate their struggles alone, and that sharing our stories can create a ripple effect of meaningful change.
About Nadine Machkovech
Nadine Machkovech is a TEDx speaker, author of Enough Already, and Executive Director of RISE TOGETHER. She leads evidence-backed, connection-centered prevention work informed by research published and indexed through the NIH, validating the power of storytelling and trusted relationships in strengthening youth mental health. Through lived experience and practical tools, Nadine helps audiences build resilience, deepen connection, and turn vulnerability into meaningful action. Having transformed personal pain into purpose, she has reached over one million people with her message of self-worth, healing, and courageous truth-telling.
Episode Resources:
NadineSpeaks.com: Featuring Nadine’s books, workshops, and resources
Book: Enough Already, A Journey from Hiding to Healing
TedX Talk: The Secret to Being Enough
RiseTogether: a peer-led, connection-centered prevention model that helps communities create spaces where young people feel safe speaking honestly. EmpowerHER: Organization dedicated to redefining care, reclaiming health, and empowering women.
SHE RECOVERS Support for the Next Generation is here for you.
If you’re a young woman or non-binary individual aged 18-35 who is navigating recovery, you don’t have to do it alone. Facilitated by SHE RECOVERS Certified Professionals, this monthly online support group and gathering was designed to meet the needs of young adults like you. Learn more here.
In this intimate conversation, Taryn Strong sits down with beloved teacher, writer, and artist Elena Brower to explore the layered realities of recovery—including cannabis dependency, tobacco addiction, grief, and shame. Elena shares the self-abandonment loop that kept her stuck, the moment of truth that helped her stop hiding, and the simple, powerful practices that helped her rebuild trust with herself.
Together, they also open into grief as a lived practice—not something to power through but something to move with—and they explore how shame can stunt our inner world…and how repair, compassion, and do-overs can restore what shame disconnects. Woven throughout is the heart of Elena’s book and journal, Hold Nothing, and the recovery medicine of storytelling, service, and self-honesty.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Recovery from cannabis and the quiet dependency many struggle to name
- The daily internal battle: “You can do it. No, you can’t.”
- The role of hiding in addiction - and how shame feeds secrecy
- What helped Elena quit cannabis (and what replaced the ritual)
- Recovery from tobacco and the emotional roots underneath the habit
- Why substances often function as a stand-in for connection and solitude
- Grief as a practice - learning to respect pain and exhaustion as pathways of healing
- Building altars, talking to loved ones who have died, and honouring impermanence
- Shame stress, nervous system repair, and the power of relational “do-overs”
- The phrase ‘how human of me’ as an empathy-based pattern interrupter
- Elena’s service work: hospice volunteering, teaching yoga in prison, and supporting formerly incarcerated women
- A loving invitation for anyone quietly questioning their relationship with a substance or behaviour
Resources Mentioned:
- Elena's website here: books, workshops, resources
- Book: The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor
- Research on shame stress referenced: Allan Schore
- Nonviolent communication: Judith Hanson Lasater
- Death doula course: Sierra Campbell
- On The Inside: nonprofit providing rehumanizing and healing programming to incarcerated women while reducing recidivism and intergenerational incarceration
About Elena Brower:
Elena Brower is a bestselling author, artist, mentor, and yoga/meditation teacher. Known for her depth, honesty, and devotion to practice, Elena creates resources that help people meet themselves with clarity, compassion, and courage—including her journals and the book Hold Nothing.
About SHE RECOVERS® Foundation
SHE RECOVERS Foundation is a non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving thousands of women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful and you are able, please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
In this candid and deeply human conversation, SHE RECOVERS® co-founder Dr. Dawn Nickel sits down with Elizabeth Gilbert to explore the intertwined threads of love and sex addiction, codependency, drug dependence, and recovery - core themes of Liz’s newest book, All the Way to the River. Liz shares openly about her own compulsive relationship patterns, her partner Rayya's relapse, and the moment that brought Liz to her knees. Together, Dawn and Liz explore 12-step recovery, emotional repair, and what it means to start again in the aftermath of profound loss. What emerges is a raw, insightful look at addiction, grief, and the deep courage it takes to heal and return to oneself.
EPISODE RESOURCES:
Book - All The Way to the River: available at Indigo, Powells.com, bookshop.org/shop/elizabeth_reads, and at your local independent bookstore.
Elizabeth's website: www.elizabethgilbert.com
Elizabeth's Substack: https://elizabethgilbert.substack.com/
SHE RECOVERS: www.sherecovers.org
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: https://slaafws.org/
Narcotics Anonymous: https://na.org/
Al-Anon: https://al-anon.org/
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
Rising Resilient in Recovery with Victoria LaMadeleine of Aware Recovery Care
How can you transform your life to go from experiencing childhood trauma and a generational line of addiction, to surviving early sobriety and ultimately rising resilient in recovery? How can a moment of desperation turn into an opportunity to “become sweetly willing” to change? Why are radical self-love, connection in community, and meeting people right where they are the gateways to healing and lasting change?
In this courageously vulnerable conversation podcast host, Dr. Tiffany Wynn, sits down with recovering woman, mother of three, wife, clinical outreach manager (and so much more) Victoria LaMadeline of Aware Recovery Care to answer these questions. Victoria shares her story of surviving to thriving, becoming a passionate recovery advocate and behavioral health professional, and going on to celebrate nineteen years of sustained recovery from addiction…and what she did to arrive at this season of her recovery.
A note for our listeners - you will hear Dr. Tiffany and Victoria recover out-loud use words such as sober and clean to self-identify. We welcome you, dear listener, to self-identify with words that resonate most with you. We are all recovering from something.
ABOUT VICTORIA LAMADELEINE
Victoria is an engaging speaker, certified professional coach, mental health advocate, and woman in long term recovery (since 2004) who weaves her lived and professional experience to serve as the Clinical Outreach Manager for Aware Recovery Care.
“Who am I? I wear many different hats but taking them all off I would say I am a woman constantly seeking – to heal, to transform, to evolve.” – Victoria LaMadeleine
ABOUT AWARE RECOVERY CARE
The mission at Aware Recovery Care is to help people affected by addiction “Recover Where You Live.” At Aware Recovery Care, they transform the home into a treatment center, delivering innovative addiction services to those in need where they live. Aware Recovery Care treats addiction like a chronic illness, and their groundbreaking and evidence-based treatment approach provides comprehensive care from a multidisciplinary team of clinicians led by an Addiction Psychiatrist, a Family Systems Therapist, a Registered Nurse, and two Certified Recovery Advisors. They help their clients learn new skills and daily habits required to maintain abstinence while remaining amongst family and friends in their community, thereby eliminating the often difficult return home from traditional treatment options. Privacy and anonymity are respected, and dignity is preserved as they provide discreet and effective addiction care.
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is proud to have Aware Recovery Care as a Presenting Sponsor for SHE RECOVERS in CHICAGO happening September September 29 - October 1, 2023.
Learn more about Aware Recovery Care > info.awarerecoverycare.com/your-home-for-recovery
Register now for SHE RECOVERS in CHICAGO > sherecovers.org/chicago-event/
Have you gone above and beyond at your job? To the point of sacrificing sleep, personal plans, and perhaps, your moral values?
Overworking, also known as workaholism, is when someone is addicted to work. It can also be described as incessant internal and external activity with the underlying belief that if you're not always active, you don't have the right to exist.
In this recovery educational series replay, Mental Health Monday, SHE RECOVERS co-founder Dr. Dawn Nickel explains overworking and how to recover from it. She offers support, tools and resources for this addiction that is often thought of as respectable.
ABOUT DR. DAWN NICKEL:
Dr.Dawn Nickel is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, with a PhD and consulting expertise related to women and health care policy and the author of SHE RECOVERS Every Day. In her work as a researcher, Dawn has focused largely on exploring how best to support women who experience substance use disorders, mental health issues, and intimate partner violence.
Dawn currently identifies as being in active recovery from anxiety, grief, workaholism, and the patriarchy.
When she isn’t writing, working as a healthcare and social policy consultant, or helping to grow the movement she started, Dawn can be found hanging out at home with her family, walking or hiking, and doing puzzles. Her life goals include “graduating” therapy, writing more books and a screenplay, completing her travel bucket list, and spending quality time with family.
EPISODE RESOURCES
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS Every Day Meditations for Women
SHE RECOVERS Together Online Zoom Gatherings
Workaholics Anonymous
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider donating to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
When we get sober, many things come to light and we're faced with knowing ourselves fully for the first time. This includes getting more acquainted with our sexuality.
In this candid conversation, our podcast host, Dr. Tiffany Wynn, speaks with writer, podcast host, and "sober sexpert," Tawny Lara, about Tawny's journey to uncovering her bisexuality once she got sober. A self-described love and sex addict, Tawny describes her transformation from finding self-worth in relationships (prior to sobriety) to discovering and leaning into her true personality and sober dating. Tawny also describes how she remains a sober party girl who loves life and still enjoys attending events. She goes into detail on that topic in her first book Dry Humping, which is set to be released this fall.
ABOUT TAWNY LARA:
Tawny Lara is a NYC-based millennial writer / public speaker who is known in the recovery realm as The Sober Sexpert. Her book, Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without Booze, comes out September 19, 2023. She co-hosts the Signal Award-winning “Best Buddy” podcast Recovery Rocks. Invitation to subscribe to her weekly column Beyond Liquid Courageabout all things sober dating and relationships.
Her writing is featured in Playboy, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, and two essay collections: Sex and the Single Woman and The Addiction Diaries.
Visit her website here: https://www.tawnylara.com/
Subscribe to her newsletter here: https://tawnylara.substack.com/
Pre-order Tawny's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730665/dry-humping-by-tawny-lara/
EPISODE RESOURCES
SRF Support For LGBTQ+
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
Recovery Rocks Podcast
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is locate
Moral injury occurs when clinicians are repeatedly expected, in the course of providing care, to make choices that transgress their long standing, deeply held commitment to healing.
Moral injury is a form of trauma that can occur in any workplace. It is often a result of someone witnessing or participating in a behavior that goes against their beliefs or values. This can cause an employee to feel isolated and be less motivated and engaged at work — and it can have a lasting negative impact on an organization.
Moral injury and burnout often go hand-in-hand.
In this enlightening conversation between our SHE RECOVERS podcast host, Dr. Tiffany Wynn, and our guest, Dr. Wendy Dean, we learn the definition of moral injury, how and why it manifests, how the systems we live and operate under play into this experience, and how we can recover from it.
ABOUT DR. WENDY DEAN:
Dr. Dean left clinical medicine when generating revenue crowded out the patient-centered priorities of her practice. Her focus since has been on finding innovative ways to make medicine better for both patients and physicians through technology, ethics, and systems change.
Dr. Dean practiced for fifteen years as an emergency room physician and then as a psychiatrist. After leaving clinical practice, she spent eight years in leadership positions, overseeing medical research funding for the U.S. Army, and as a senior executive at a large nonprofit, in Washington D.C., supporting novel strategies to restore form, function, and appearance to ill and injured service members. She turned her full attention to addressing moral injury in 2019.
Dr. Dean is a regular contributor to Medscape’s Business of Medicine, blogs on Psychology Today, and continues to work in innovative fields with NASA, the American Society of Reconstructive Transplantation, and the Transplant Ethics and Policy Working Group at New York University Langone Medical Center.
Visit her website here: https://wendydeanmd.com/
Listen to her podcast here: https://www.fixmoralinjury.org/
EPISODE RESOURCES
SHE RECOVERS Support For Healthcare & Allied Professionals Support Group & Gatherings
The Healing Power of Stories : A Symposium For Recovery Professionals
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tewa people—O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place)—now present day Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In this previously recorded session of our educational series, Mental Health Monday, bestselling author Ann Dowsett Johnston, discusses how writing can be a powerful tool in recovery, and how we can shape our own stories. Ann believes writing is a process of discovery and at the heart of good writing is finding your voice. She guides us to explore how to tell the stories that are deep within us and how to frame our work and even get it published.
During this session Ann helps us to understand:
- Writing as a tool of recovery
- How to excavate stories and give a voice to our secrets
- How to develop the narrative arc and see your work get published
You will also hear an engaging Q&A between Ann and SHE RECOVERS co-founder, Dr. Dawn Nickel.
ABOUT ANN DOWSETT JOHNSTON
Ann Dowsett Johnston is the bestselling author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, named by the Washington Post as one of the top 10 books of 2013.An award-winning journalist with more than 30 years experience, Ann is now a practicing psychotherapist. Three years ago, she launched her popular Writing Your Recovery series, memoir-writing courses for women in recovery. Ann has won many awards for her work in battling the stigma around mental health and addiction, including an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University. She lives in Toronto. Visit Ann's website: https://www.anndowsettjohnston.com/
EPISODE RESOURCES
yOUR story speaker sessions
Introduction to Recovery Storytelling Workshop
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tewa people—O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place)—now present day Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Gender is often a core part of identity, and like other aspects of identity, it fundamentally shapes our perception of ourselves, each other and our experiences 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.
In this previously recorded episode of our educational series, Mental Health Monday, Marya Hornbacher and SHE RECOVERS Co-Founder Dr. Dawn Nickel, have an insightful, lively and engaging look at the role of gender in recovery.
Marya doesn't hold back as she speaks about being a woman in the recovery space and the difficulties that come along with this.
ABOUT MARYA:
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning essayist, journalist, novelist, poet, and the internationally bestselling author of five books, including Wasted, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Times Bestseller Madness. She is the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award for Nonfiction, a Logan Fellowship for Social Justice Journalism, the White Award for Magazine Journalism, the ASCAP Award for Music Journalism, the Fountain House Humanitarian Award, and other distinctions. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Smithsonian Magazine, Crazyhorse, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, DIAGRAM, Arts & Letters, and many others. Hornbacher is currently at work on her sixth and seventh books, a work of long-form journalism and a collection of essays.
Connect with Marya on her website.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Mental Health Monday Replaylist
SHE RECOVERS Together Online
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tewa people—O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place)—now present day Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In this candid conversation our podcast host, Dr. Tiffany Wynn, speaks with storyteller, recovery coach and recovery advocate Meghann Perry.
They discuss:
- Meghann's recovery story and how she created her storytelling workshops
- Why and how the system of the recovery movement needs to be shaken up
- How powerful and empowering storytelling can be in the recovery realm
- The importance of women's stories
ABOUT MEGHANN PERRY
Meghann Perry, CARC, RCPF, is an award-winning Storyteller, Theater Practitioner, Facilitator, Curriculum Designer and Addiction Recovery Coach Professional. She creates unique learning, growth and performance experiences for people of all ages utilizing a blended practice of Theatre, Storytelling, and Coaching principles, and is a nationally-known educator in the field of Recovery Coaching. She has designed and facilitated countless workshops for diverse groups, including those with mental health and substance use challenges, transgender youth, adults and allies, adoptive caregivers, non-profit boards, and others. Meghann recently integrated Theatre and Storytelling practices into Youth and Young Adult residential treatment services for the MA Dept. of Public Health. She has also worked extensively with adolescents and young adults as a Recovery Coach and Theatre Practitioner.
She is the creator of the nationally-renowned Phoenix Tales Recovery Storytelling workshop which is currently under research as an evidence-based recovery support by the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice at Northeastern University. She served as an Actor, Playwright, and Facilitator of Youth Workshops with the Theatre Prevention organization Improbable Players, and now serves as the Theatre Education Consultant for the Boston-based theater organization, 2nd Act. She recently co-directed the musical, This is Treatment, about Black and brown women in a residential substance addiction treatment program, with students at Northeastern University. She holds a degree in Theatre Education from Emerson College. You can learn more about her at www.meghannperry.com.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Amplifying Women’s Stories in Recovery Advocacy
SHE RECOVERS Together Online
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity and a global grassroots movement serving more than 325,000 women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges including mental health issues, trauma and substance use. SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves and help other women to do the same.
If you found this conversation helpful please consider making a donation to our lifeline organization or sharing it with others who may benefit. We would love to also receive your rating and review of the SHE RECOVERS Podcast on your favorite platform.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Headquarters is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Tewa people—O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place)—now present day Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Julie is an International Coaches Federation (ICF) Certified Professional Coach, a SHE RECOVERS® Designated Coach, and an Accredited Integrative Enneagram Practitioner.
Julie specializes in mental health coaching, and working with high functioning, high achieving women who are questioning their relationship with alcohol. Many of the women she works with share the experience that alcohol is no longer serving them the way it used to and they are noticing an impact on their mental health.
Julie is a wife and mom to two young kids, and she spent many years questioning her own relationship with alcohol until she decided to live alcohol free in 2018. In her downtime Julie loves traveling, reading, anything true crime, spending time with her husband and children, and volunteering her time in her community.
Find Julie Dereshinsky here >> www.juliedereshinsky.com
In this episode, Julie talks about using the Enneagram as a recovery tool, how she found SHE RECOVERS, why she chose to work as a SHE RECOVERS certified coach, and how she spends her time helping other women in recovery.
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Dawn Nickel, PhD, Founder of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation, is a thought leader in the women's recovery sphere and 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 sht you did is just the sht you did - it's not who you are" and "recovering from all the things" resonating throughout many recovery realms.
Author of the book, SHE RECOVERS Every Day, 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.
In this candid conversation, our podcast host Dr. Tiffany Wynn speaks with Dawn about the history of the SHE RECOVERS movement, how recovery can be a family affair, and all about her new book, SHE RECOVERS Every Day, a book of meditations for women inspired by her life and recovery experiences.
You can find Dawn on the web and purchase her book here>> https://dawnnickel.com/
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
With a special focus on research, the SHE RECOVERS Foundation can also establish a more robust evidence base related to the efficacy of non-traditional recovery pathways.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation stated purpose is to connect, support and empower women in or seeking recovery.
Join us for a free event on March 8, 2023: Amplifying Women's Stories in Recovery Advocacy. Register here.
We're doing it again - our in-person groundbreaking event is in Chicago this year. Reserve your spot now for SHE RECOVERS in Chicago.
For recovery help and resources please visit our trusted resources section on our website.
Jen Butler, MBA, CPC, CPRC, SRCD, spent a decade as a stay-at-home mom before becoming a Certified Professional Life and Recovery Coach and SHE RECOVERS® Coach. To cope with the rollercoaster of motherhood and enabled by wine mom culture, Jen was stuck in the fog of gray area drinking until 2018.
As a coach, she provides connection and accountability – the very keys that helped her start her own journey to alcohol freedom – to gray area and heavy drinkers who struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, and overwhelm. Jen empowers her clients to create change, nix negative self-talk, rediscover self-trust, and live with authentic purpose. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Cambridge (UK), Jen lives in Chappaqua, NY with her husband, two children, and three dogs.
In this episode, our team member Kelly Fitzgerald Junco has a lively conversation with Jen all about the perils of mommy wine culture, Jen's definition of gray area drinking, and how we can reach more people in these populations who may need help. Jen speaks about recovering from perfectionism and the benefits of helping women as a Coach.
Find Jen Butler on the web here >> https://www.joyinduring.com/
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
SHE RECOVERS has launched a partnership with BetterHelp to provide accessible and individualized mental health therapy to those seeking healing. We are honored to offer our listeners a 35% discount on the first month of therapy at BetterHelp until December 31, 2022. Register at betterhelp.com/srf.
SHE RECOVERS is grateful to BetterHelp for making a $30,000 donation in support of our mission in 2022. Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Justine Evirs is a business consultant, Stanford University Graduate School of Business alumnus, and Navy Veteran. She teaches women executives & entrepreneurs to create consistent revenue models and business plans.
As the Owner & Creator of her signature 12-week programs, Courage to Create and Courage to Lead, Evirs teaches leaders to trust their instincts and use creativity to create values-based organizations and solutions for worldwide social problems. As the Founder of The Paradigm Switch (TPS) she helped to raise over $500,000 in donations and led over 40 volunteers during her time as President.
She also flexed her grassroots community organizing and nonprofit leadership skills during a three-year tenure at Bunker Labs, a nonprofit that helps veterans and military spouses start businesses. She is a frequent speaker and podcast guest, and is the mother of three children. She lives in Burke, VA.
Visit her website here
Follow her on Instagram
In this episode, our host Kelly Fitzgerald Junco, speaks with Justine about her journey into recovery, her quest to become a therapist and help others, as well as the many labels - veteran, mom, bisexual, biracial, rape survivor - she wears and sheds, and how she started to truly own her story.
Justine also details her tumultuous life and everything women have had to endure in silence in her new memoir Fck This: Permission Granted to Own Your Story*.
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
SHE RECOVERS has launched a partnership with BetterHelp to provide accessible and individualized mental health therapy to those seeking healing.
We are honored to offer our listeners a 35% discount on the first month of therapy at BetterHelp until December 31, 2022. Register at betterhelp.com/srf.
SHE RECOVERS is grateful to BetterHelp for making a $30,000 donation in support of our mission in 2022.
Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Emily is a writer, speaker, Certified Naked Mind Coach, She Recovers Designated Coach, Certified Facilitator of Addiction Awareness, and the founder of Sober Mom Squad. She has appeared on media outlets including The Today Show, The Doctors, The Tamron Hall Show, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today, discussing how to end the shame and stigma of mental health and substance abuse. Emily is the author of Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life and the forthcoming book Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and Other Lies of Multi-Level Marketing (May 2023). She resides in Central Oregon with her husband and their five children.
Visit her website here
Follow her on Instagram
Join the Sober Mom Squad
In this episode, our team member Kelly Fitzgerald Junco, speaks with Emily about her journey to find recovery, the different pathways that worked for her, and how she found and met the needs of moms looking to get sober during the pandemic.
Emily wears many hats and candidly discusses how she became an entrepreneur, an author, and a TEDx speaker, none of which she would have been able to do without leaving alcohol behind.
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Stephanie Chinn is an illustrator, best-selling author, speaker, and women's advocate. Her work focuses on illustrating the different ways we can remind ourselves that we are enough the way that we are, while simultaneously unpacking the different ways we have been led to believe we are not.
Stephanie began to share her work on Instagram in 2019 has since then been featured in Yoga Journal magazine, recognized by Adobe as an upcoming female artist, and published her debut book; Here Sister, Let Me Help You up.
You can find her work on Instagram @stephaniechinnart
In this episode, our team member Kelly Fitzgerald Junco, speaks with Stephanie about her recovery journey, how she found SHE RECOVERS and became a member of our community, and her budding career as an illustrator who has found her voice through art.
Stephanie talks candidly about her experience from getting sober in NA to finding SHE RECOVERS and leaning into her work as a part of her recovery. Her mission is to make art that makes people feel like there are still beautiful moments, even when the world is heavy.
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Amanda E. White is a licensed therapist and the creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen. She is the founder and director of the group therapy practice, Therapy for Women Center, based in Philadelphia, where she serves clients across the country. People are drawn to Amanda's unique expertise, accessible approach to healing and mental health, and her expertise has been featured in notable publications such as Forbes, Washington Post, Shape, Women's Health Magazine, and more. Out on January 4, 2022, Amanda's debut book, NOT DRINKING TONIGHT: A GUIDE TO CREATING A SOBER LIFE YOU LOVE , is an honest discussion of mental health where Amanda explores our reasons for drinking alcohol and the benefits of taking a break. For more information, please visit www.amandaewhite.com
In this episode, our team member Kelly Fitzgerald Junco, chats with Amanda about her journey to sobriety, how she became a therapist, and her inclusive and passionate Instagram following.
Amanda also talks about the intersection of diet culture and drinking culture, how the term 'disordered drinking,' came to be and why it should be a normal discussion in our society, and about her own journey of recovery from disordered eating, codependency, perfectionism, and more.
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
Find out more and donate here: https://sherecovers.org/
Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.marcbrackett.com/
Haesue Jo, MA, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with experience providing individual and family therapy in community mental health, school settings, day treatment facilities, and via teletherapy. She is currently Head of Clinical Operations at BetterHelp, which allows her to empower other therapists to be successful at bringing their skills online. Her current clinical focus and interests include AAPI mental wellness, anxiety, relationship, and family dynamics, trauma, and gender identity. To practice self-care, she enjoys spending time with loved ones (including her dogs and cat), yoga & fitness, going to the aquarium, snowboarding in the winter, and seeing live music all year round.
Finding professional help such as an online therapist shouldn’t be hard. No matter what you are recovering from and regardless of where you are on your healing journey you deserve to easily connect with someone who has earned the right to hear your story. Someone who is there to take every step of your healing journey alongside you.
In this episode we learned:
- How to participate in online therapy
- How to sign up and receive therapy
- About the healing benefits and opportunities that we see when therapy can be accessed from anywhere at anytime
- How online therapy can help break barriers for those who may be hesitant or unable to access in-person therapy
- How our community members are accessing therapy for themselves and they've benefited
This podcast episode is Lisa Wall and Haesue Jo's live session of #MentalHealthMonday. They are also joined by SHE RECOVERS community members Suzie and Jessica.
Learn more about BetterHelp at http://betterhelp.com/srf
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
SHE RECOVERS has launched a partnership with BetterHelp to provide accessible and individualized therapy to those seeking healing.
We are honored to offer our listeners a 35% discount on the first month of therapy @ BetterHelp until December 31, 2021. Register at betterhelp.com/srf.
SHE RECOVERS is grateful to BetterHelp for making a $100,000 donation in support of our mission in 2021.
Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, CSAT, is a licensed professional counselor and author, specializing in treating women who struggle with relationships. As the first clinician to name an attachment injury as Mother Hunger, she explores the legacy of maternal deprivation. Her book 'Mother Hunger', speaks to the millions of women who suffer with a life-long emotional burden that adversely affects self-worth.
This podcast episode is Dawn Nickel and Kelly's live session of #MentalHealthMonday.
An endless ache to love and be loved. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable moods and painful relationships.
Do any of these sound familiar?
Trauma psychotherapist and author Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors — and are unable to stop.
Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, Kelly McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood attachment injuries and their lasting impact.
In doing so, she de-stigmatizes the shame that can come with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed, and offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes.
In this session of #MentalHealthMonday, Kelly McDaniel weaves her 30 years of research, clinical expertise, and a deep understanding of mothering myths, to explore 'Mother Hunger' and provide an opportunity to understand and heal the misunderstood root of poor eating patterns, chronic relationship disappointment, and distorted self-image.
Connect with Kelly at kellymcdanieltherapy.com and on Instagram: @kellymcdanieltherapy .
The SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION is a grassroots movement and non-profit public charity with a community of women in or seeking recovery from substance use disorders, behavioral health issues and/or life challenges. This lifeline organization connects women through its virtual platforms and in-person community networks, provides resources and supports women to develop their own holistic recovery patchworks, and empowers them to thrive and share their successes. All efforts are designed to end the stigma and shame often associated with recovery so that more women may heal and grow.
SHE RECOVERS has launched a partnership with BetterHelp to provide accessible and individualized therapy to those seeking healing.
We are honored to offer our listeners a 35% discount on the first month of therapy @ BetterHelp until December 31. Register at betterhelp.com/srf.
SHE RECOVERS is grateful to BetterHelp for making a $100,000 donation in support of our mission in 2021.
**Elaine Alec is an Indigenous author, political advisor, educator, and spiritual thought leader.
This podcast episode is Dawn Nickel and Elaine's live session of #MentalHealthMonday . Elaine shared:**
The traditional, relational, action, and innovative perspectives that promote well-being, inclusion, validation, and freedom
Utilizing Indigenous stories, teachings, and language to cultivate safer spaces for healing, communication, and learning
What the four necessary conditions are within a "nested system"
About ELAINE ALEC:
Elaine is from the Syilx (Okanagan) Nation and Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation and is a member of the Penticton Indian Band in the Interior of British Columbia.
She has been a political advisor, Chief of Staff for the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations, Community Planner for her own First Nation, an employee for the Province of BC and Federal Government, and an Entrepreneur.
Elaine has spent over 20 years in over 100 communities across Canada to promote healing and wellness. She is a partner of an Indigenous-owned and operated planning company called Alderhill Planning Inc.
Elaine is a first-time author of “Calling My Spirit Back” a memoir about growing up as an Indigenous girl in Canada and the impacts of colonization. It also provides Indigenous knowledge, teachings on how to cultivate safe spaces for diversity and inclusion.
Elaine's Website and to order her book: https://www.elainealec.com/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
Ayako is a woman who, in her words, is “not an expert. Just a lonely mum trying to navigate miscarriage, motherhood, and depression.” While she is not busy keeping up with her spirited son, Takeo, she serves as a relentless supporter for parents navigating the heartbreak and secondary losses surrounding an “out of order death” in memory of her daughter, Emi. She is also in the process of creating her business 'Emi & Company' where bereaved parents and families can purchase tools for recovery and access healing resources.
In this heart-polishing and courageously vulnerable conversation, Lisa and Ayako discuss the early deaths of their children and the postpartum cycles of grief, change, healing, and hope that can follow a miscarriage.
This podcast is in honor of Emi (Ayako) and Rowan (Lisa) and all the babies who are no longer with us earth-side. May they continue to grow love in our hearts and give us purpose and strength with each passing day. Forever cherished, always remembered.
Connect with Ayako on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamasmatterhere/
Mentioned Resources:
- Canadian EI "Special Circumstances” Benefits.
Go to this link and click on the “Miscarriage, Termination or Stillbirth” or “Death of a Child” options:
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-parental/special-circumstances.html
- Instagram: @peanut
For their “Renaming Revolution” Glossary of inclusive, compassionate terminology/language:
www.instagram.com/peanut
OR specific link to post regarding the Glossary is:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNm2v1yHZ7Q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
They also have an app with further support: “Peanut: Find Friends & Support: Fertility, Pregnancy, Motherhood”
- Stillbirth Foundation Australia:
The most comprehensive and compassionate resources that help post-loss
(Explanation of types of medical procedures for pregnancy loss, Logistics of funeral/cremation, etc, Physical and secondary losses explained)
“Practical and Emotional Help for Parents”:
https://stillbirthfoundation.org.au/support-topics/help-and-support-for-parents/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
Seraphina’s European grandparents first introduced her to the healing power of natural medicine. While seasonally gathering herbs in rural Ontario they lovingly taught her about the traditional wisdom of herbs and plant lore.
After suffering injury to her spine as a teenager, Seraphina was declared by the conventional medical system to lead a life of suffering in chronic pain. Determined to heal herself, she returned to her roots and began a professional study of natural medicine, herbalism and homeopathy.
In this episode, Seraphina shares her journey of recovering from her injury, anxiety, depression and grief. And she shares beautiful wisdom for fellow travellers on a path of healing.
Seraphina Capranos' Website: https://www.seraphinacapranos.com/
SHE RECOVERS Mental Health Monday with Seraphina: https://www.facebook.com/189151304482056/videos/492117588841959
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
One of our beloved SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles is, "Recovery is a journey to wholeness. We learn to take care of our body, mind, emotions and spirit." Recovering our bodies, becoming embodied and incorporating somatic based healing modalities is a passion of our movement!
Taryn sits down with Payton (SHE RECOVERS Director of Volunteer Network and Foundation Events) to discuss why SHE RECOVERS Dance is such a beautiful, trauma informed compliment to your recovery patchwork. No experience necessary!
SHE RECOVERS Dance Weekly FREE Class: https://sherecovers.org/together-online/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
In this conversation, Magdelene Joly shares her journey of recovering from burnout, chronic fatigue and Lyme disease.
Magdalene is a farmer, nutritionist, herbalist, dancer, mother, artist, student of Medical Qigong, and community organizer living at TreeEater Farm on Denman Island, the traditional unceded territory of Pentlatch and Comox Nations.
She believes in the power of community and receiving support while healing, and that illness can be a beautiful teacher - if we listen and allow it to be.
TreeEater Farm & Nursery: https://treeeaternursery.com/
Magdalene's Jewellery: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RustFlowerCreations
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
Nina Turczyn is an amazing silversmith and gallery owner.
Leading up to the opening of her gallery, Nina hit a wall with overwhelm and exhaustion. She never expected to be someone who experienced mental health challenges, but realizes that her experience has given her the opportunity to be a beacon for others.
In this episode, she shares her journey of recovering from burnout and depression - and the powerful lessons she learned along the way.
Nina's Gallery:https://www.paprikajewellery.ca/
Argentum Jewellery School: https://www.argentumjewelleryschool.com/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
Autumn Skye is a visionary artist. She believes that the role of the artist is especially crucial at this time and that while the world is at the precipice of momentous change, artworks have the potential to be maps that can help guide humanity forward into new and positive ways of seeing and being. Autumn says, "through creativity we have the opportunity to transmute shadow and pain into visions of healing and wholeness.
In this potent conversation, Autumn shares with Taryn her journey of grief from losing her beloved father, how the creative process can be an amazing tool for healing (and inner child work) and the sacredness of sisterhood.
Autumn Skye's Website: https://autumnskyeart.com/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
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Jacqueline Jennings is an entrepreneur coach, facilitator and startup strategist who got sober at the age of 15.
In this conversation, Jacqueline shares with Taryn about the importance of her journey with connecting with traditional, cultural teachings and ancestral wisdom. She also talks about the need to focus on community care - not just self care, matriarchy, and decolonizing recovery.
Jacqueline's website: http://www.jacquelinejennings.com/
Jacqueline's instagram: @jacqueline.d.jennings
Decolonize First resource: https://www.nahaneecreative.com/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Donate to the SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/become-a-founding-investor/
Bisexuality is one of the most misunderstood expressions within the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Bisexuals or other individuals under the bisexual umbrella can be thwarted with cruel commentary like, "Why can't you just pick a side," "You must be confused," or "You can't be trusted."
In this episode, Dawn speaks with Dr Jamie Marich, clinical trauma specialist, trainer, author, openly bisexual woman, and person in long-term recovery.Dr Jamie Marich shares about her own experience navigating these oppressive cognitions in her early life and recovery and why this phenomenon of being pulled between two worlds or being made to feel like your identity is not valid can add an extra layer of wounding for bisexuals.
To learn more about Dr Jamie Marich: https://www.drjamiemarich.com/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Grab your tea and join SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Executive Director, Susan Carter and Co-Founder, Dawn Nickel by the fire.
"As a woman celebrating 27 years of continuous sobriety, I am deeply committed to giving back what I have so graciously been given. And after meeting and working with the beautiful intelligent and impassioned women who have shepherded this community to where it is today, I knew this is where I wanted to put my stake in the ground. Working alongside these brilliant women in recovery would be the jewel in my career crown, not to mention a treasure in my life. Serving as Executive Director of this vibrant movement is a true honor and privilege" - Susan Carter.
SHE RECOVERS® Foundation has the women, the power, and the presence to be a mighty force in our world. And until ALL women in or seeking recovery from these challenges are celebrated, supported, and deemed essential to healthy communities, we will not rest. This is OUR movement. This is our cause.
SHE RECOVERS Blog: This is Our Movement, This is Our Cause
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
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Taryn speaks with Payton Kennedy, beloved colleague, friend and creator of SHE RECOVERS Dance®. Payton shares her multi-layered recovery story and her life-long journey as a seeker. As an adoptee, Payton struggled with decades-long feelings of disconnection, grief and sadness that contributed to self-sabotaging behaviors. She discusses her daily recovery practices - powerful tools that ground and connect her with with inner wisdom.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Biet Simkin is the renowned meditation teacher dubbed "The David Bowie/Lady Gaga of Meditation." In this episode, you will understand why. She is rebellious and rock n roll, yet, very grounded in her recovery and spiritual practices.
She beautifully shares about the deep losses of her mother, father and first born daughter. And Biet shares about her recovery journey from heroin and disordered eating/body image issues.
Biet Simkin: https://www.bietsimkin.com/
Biet's mindbodygreen online meditation program: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/wc/biet-simkin
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
One of the things we love about being in recovery is that we tend not to do a lot of "small talk." Instead, our conversations are "big talk" - deep, expansive and truthful shared experiences.
On this episode, Erin talks with one of her closest friends, Chris Campbell, a woman in long-term recovery. Erin and Chris met on a SHE RECOVERS retreat. The conversation they started on the beautiful rooftop of our Mexico retreat home has continued for three years. In this recording, Erin and Chris share how they are working to break long-established patterns of behavior and what types of powerful decisions come once self-love is established in our lives.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Erin Wickersham: https://erinwickersham.com
Taryn, Dawn and Erin gather to discuss how COVID has created unexpected changes within the SHE RECOVERS organization, as well as their own lives.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
Get involved with SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/get-involved/
Erin Wickersham: https://erinwickersham.com
We are back after our "podcast pause." As individuals, and as an organization, we took the sacred pause to focus energy and efforts on our antiracism work.
In this episode Shari Hampton (SHE RECOVERS Coach and Trusted Advisor, speaker and consultant) chats with SHE RECOVERS Foundation founders Dawn Nickel and Taryn Strong. Shari shares her experience of being a Black woman in recovery, as well as how she has been pivoting since covid-19.
Dawn and Taryn share how the SHE RECOVERS Foundation has pivoted in terms of prioritizing antiracism work as a recovery organization.
Shari Hampton: http://sharihampton.com/
Online event: SHE RECOVERS Critical Conversation: Healing the Effects of Racism for Black Women in Recovery.
https://bit.ly/3o8QwTd
SHE RECOVERS Support for Black, Indigenous and Women of Color Facebook Group and free weekly online gathering: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SHERECOVERSSupportBIWOC/
SHE RECOVERS Foundation: https://sherecovers.org/
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Nadia Bolz-Weber is an ordained Lutheran Pastor who has reclaimed and redefined what it means to be a Christian woman. She is founder of House for All Sinners & Saints in Denver, CO, author of three bestselling memoirs and a woman in long term recovery. Nadia will also be a speaker at our Miami conference in May 2021.
Nadia shares about grieving during the Covid-19 pandemic and what it is revealing about our relationships and culture. She also discusses how church teachings around sexuality have been to harmful to women and offers a vision for what a wholly integrated life - sexually, emotionally and spiritually - looks like. Her irreverent recovery wisdom, and belief that we are all sinners and saints at the exact same time, will inspire and encourage you whatever your religious or spiritual background.
To learn more about Nadia Bolz-Weber: https://nadiabolzweber.com/
To learn more about Erin Wickersham: https://erinwickersham.com/
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Taryn speaks with Jen O., a retired veteran and woman in recovery, about her journey of recovering from using substances to deal with social anxiety and awkwardness. Jen's inspiring story shows the power of commitment and belonging.
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Jen Pastiloff joins us for a special podcast episode recorded during our online PJ Party held the first weekend of May 2020. Jen is a teacher, leader and author of the amazingly beautiful book "On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard."
Jen's story of recovering from disordered eating and depression helps women find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness. Her work is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt and an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of “I am not enough.”
To learn more about Jen Pastioff: https://www.jenniferpastiloff.com/
To learn more about Erin Wickersham: https://erinwickersham.com/
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Taryn and Erin check in and share their thoughts and observations of how seven weeks of quarantine has impacted them. As they work through the daily ups and downs of isolation, both women are working to break through old stories of what is possible and how to become intentional co-creators of their lives. They also examine some of the themes coming out of the SHE RECOVERS online gatherings.
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Lotta Dann used to describe herself as a "boozy housewife." For two decades she drank alcohol steadily and heavily. In 2011, alarmed at how her drinking was escalating, she started the anonymous blog 'Mrs. D Is Going Without' and eventually wrote her way into recovery and community.
In this episode of the SHE RECOVERS podcast, Erin talks with Lotta about what she has gained in recovery, as well as areas where she still struggles, including her "ongoing battle" with flour and sugar. They also discuss how the current Covid-19 lockdown has created conditions that are both perfect and incredibly challenging for those living in and just beginning recovery. Lotta shares her belief that in this moment of collective grief, showing kindness to ourselves and each other is more important more ever.
Online community website Living Sober here.
Mrs D Is Going Without Blog here.
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Dawn Nickel, founder of SHE RECOVERS, joins Taryn to share how the SHE RECOVERS sisterhood is widening and deepening during this time of Covid-19. We have always known that "we are all recovering from something," and in our daily online meetups, as women from various recovery journeys share their stories and modalities for healing, we are seeing that truth come to life.
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Taryn talks with Lara Frazier, a woman in long-term recovery from prescription drugs and love addiction. Lara shares a beautiful story of parental love, as her parents "loved her all the way through" and offered her encouragement and support in the darkest episodes of her struggle. She is a fierce believer in the power of owning our stories and is a strong advocate for addiction recovery.
You can learn more about Lara here.
You can learn more about Deanna Axe here.
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Tiffany Swedeen, ICU nurse and SHE RECOVERS coach, joins us to share her story of recovery from opiates and alcohol. Raised in a very conservative home, Tiffany was a wife and mother by the time she was 16 years old. Decades of self abuse, toxic relationships and struggle followed. Tiffany's story is a beautiful example of the miracles that happen when you learn to trust your own instincts and move forward in life with compassion and self love.
You can learn more about Tiffany on her website: www.recoverandrise.com and on her blog: www.scrubbedcleanrn.com.
Tiffany's choice of recovery program is www.recoverydharma.org. Information about alternative to discipline links for medical providers in the US can be found here: https://www.ncsbn.org/alternative-to-discipline.htm.
A mindfulness based relapse prevention information is here https://mindfulrp.com/.
And you can learn more about Tiffany's story here: https://www.workingnurse.com/articles/When-the-Nurse-is-an-Addict-Part-One.
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How are you doing? How are you navigating this time of change and uncertainty?
In this episode, Taryn and Erin check in with each other and share how they are currently processing the global pandemic.
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The Covid-19/coronavirus global pandemic has created stress and uncertainty in our lives. In this environment it is more important than ever - and perhaps more difficult than ever - to practice self care.
On this episode, SHE RECOVERS founder Dawn Nickel joins Erin to talk with Dr. Vanessa Klugman and attorney Lisa Smith. Vanessa and Lisa are both SHE RECOVERS coaches and women in long-term recovery. The women share wisdom and specific suggestions on how to navigate this new world and ways to keep emotionally and mentally healthy in times of uncertainty. Those tools include online resources and daily individual practices.
Learn more about Vanessa here.
Learn more about Lisa here.
Learn more about Erin here.
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In this episode, Taryn chats with mama, teacher, author, speaker and dōTERRA leader Elena Brower. Elena shares how she recovered from marijuana addiction by changing her (untrue) belief that she was more organized, funnier and more interesting if she was under the influence. Her journey shows the power of what we can create and accomplish when we stop rebelling against ourselves. Elena also shares how she stayed - and continues to stay - present with her grief after losing her mother.
Elena and Taryn talk about one of their shared passions and recovery tools - the use and efficacy of dōTERRA essential oils to support recovery and wellbeing.
To order or to join Taryn and Elena's SHE RECOVERS dōTERRA group, go to www.mydoterra.com/sherecovers. You will have both Taryn and Elena as your essential oil guides - something they both LOVE to share with women in recovery.
We love all of Elena's books, courses and podcast. For more information about her offerings visit www.elenabrower.com.
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In this episode of the SHE RECOVERS podcast, Erin talks with author and columnist Elissa Altman about her latest book, “Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing and Longing.”
In her new work, Elissa shares with brutal honesty the emotional cost of caring for an aging mother who has always needed to be cared for, no matter her age. Her story shows the importance and difficulty of practicing radical self care in the midst of family codependency and dysfunction.
To learn more about Elissa Altman, click here.
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Dawn joins Taryn on the podcast to share details of the upcoming SHE RECOVERS conference in Miami, as well as the many in-person/online gatherings and other offerings available this year through SHE RECOVERS.
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In this episode of the SHE RECOVERS podcast, Erin talks with Heidi Harmon.
As the current mayor of San Luis Obispo, Heidi is guiding her community into a "politics of belonging," where every citizen is equally heard, seen and valued.
Heidi's background as a housecleaner and preschool teacher, as well as her choice to act in her political role from a very feminine energy, has made her a target for those who are uncomfortable with feminine power. Heidi shares how she uses that and other challenges to become even more aligned with her values and purpose. She also discusses how women can help move our culture from one based in "rugged masculine individualism" to a more balanced, compassionate society.
https://www.heidiharmon.org/
https://www.instagram.com/heidiismighty/?hl=en
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Nica Selvaggio was adopted as a young child and came to believe that worthiness was dependant upon being perfect. Nica, who identifies as a non-binary queer human, shares how the unconscious shame, rage and grief of this trauma of objectification led to a decade-long eating disorder.
Now a therapist in long-term recovery, Nica has crafted a life centered around profound self kindness with daily, holistic practices that help build acceptance, safety and self love.
Nica explains how using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, can help heal traumatized nervous systems and create the ability to stay present, regulate emotions, cope healthily with stress, and improve relationships. Nica also talks with Taryn about how the death of her birth mother led to a sex addiction and, eventually, to a deeper recovery.
https://www.nicaselvaggio.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicaselvaggio
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Erin talks with Kate Baily, cofounder of the LOVE SOBER community and cohost of the LOVE SOBER podcast. Kate’s story of recovery began when she stopped wondering if her drinking was “bad enough,” and joined in an online sober women’s community, Soberistas.
Kate's “bad enough” question is one many women in our community struggle with as they feel stuck in the gray area of drinking - that space in between the extremes of rock bottom and every-now-and-again drinking. In that gray area, the consequences of our drinking behavior is often intimate and known only to us.
Kate also shares about the trauma and self harm she experienced as a young teenager in a devout religious community and how she used Buddhist principles and practices to help her heal. Erin and Kate also talk about parenting in sobriety.
You can find out more about Kate and Love Sober here:
https://www.instagram.com/kate_love.sober/
https://www.instagram.com/love.sober.co/
Love Sober podcast
Email Love Sober: Info@lovesober.com
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In this episode of the SHE RECOVERS podcast, Erin talks with Connie McMillan, author of "Alcohol Fiend to Sobriety Queen" and host of the Sober Sessions podcast.
Six years ago, tired of living the party life, depleting her bank account and being "everything to everybody all the time," Connie dropped the facade and began her journey to become 'Sobriety Queen Connie,' the recovery coach, author and mentor she is today.
Connie shares how some of her greatest heartbreaks - a failed marriage, her sister's incarceration and the death of her mother - became the catalyst for building the life she was meant to live. She also discusses the loneliness that often comes with early recovery and its importance in the process of "decluttering" your life to make room for new people and new experiences.
https://www.conniesmcmillan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sobriety_queen_connie/
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Taryn and Erin talk with Holly Whitaker, founder and CEO of Tempest (formerly known as Hip Sobriety). Holly's new book, "Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol," recounts her transformative journey of removing alcohol and other self-destructive behaviors from her life, while questioning the limitations of established recovery modalities and advocating for individualized and varied patchworks and paths.
Her work also lays out in vivid detail the targeted marketing and manipulation of women by big alcohol. Holly issues a powerful call to arms against the insidious nature of the current drinking culture and encourages women to see the decision not to drink as a courageous, empowering and feminist act.
Find more about Holly and her work here:
https://www.jointempest.com/
https://www.instagram.com/holly/
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No matter where you are in your recovery journey, you will enjoy this conversation about the power of connections. We recorded it in late 2019 at our NYC CREATING CONNECTIONS TOUR.
Erin talks with two pairs of women, new friends, who found each other through SHE RECOVERS. Meredith and Jenny connected on our SHE RECOVERS Together FACEBOOK page and are supporting each other in early days of sobriety. Mo and Kathy, who have 50 years of recovery between them, connected at a SHE RECOVERS retreat. Their friendship helped to deepen their long-term recovery and they both are now SHE RECOVERS coaches, helping other women discover the joy and vibrancy within themselves.
We hope you enjoy this episode - the last of 2019. We will return in 2020 with more SHE RECOVERS podcast episodes.
"It's not your fault, but it's your turn."
In this semi-meditative episode, Taryn shares her knowledge of how your recovery journey can heal the intergenerational trauma of your family - past, present and future. She offers moments of reflection for your hard and powerful work, as well a gentle reframing of past familial stories that can bring desired transformation.
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Mama Dawn joins her daughter Taryn on the podcast to share one of her favorite messages to women in recovery: We are not our past mistakes. Dawn's message helps women find peace with their past by asking themselves one simple, but powerful, question.
Integrating and living from this message is such an important step in recovery that it is one of our SHE RECOVERS Intentions & Guiding Principles: "We learn from and make peace with our past so we can live fully in the present."
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Shari Hampton is a sober enthusiast, founder of Served Up Sober and creator of some of the most inspiring car chats on Instagram!
Shari joins Taryn to talk about her first year of recovery and how losing six loved ones unexpectedly, perhaps even miraculously, helped her stay sober. Shari developed a deep resolve to begin a new personal story - and then embraced the power of "pivoting" to make her new life happen.
http://www.servedupsober.com/
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Lori Ann Hazel is WiL²D – a Woman Inspired to Live Life Deliberately.
In this episode, Erin talks with Lori about the importance of friendships with other women in recovery. Lori feels that these relationships are a powerful support that helped her create a life aligned with her dreams, values and priorities.
They also discuss the WiL²D community that Lori co-founded in Kelowna, Canada, which is helping women find clarity and connection in their everyday lives.
www.womeninspired.ca
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Catherine Choi is the founder of SoYoung, a Canadian brand of lunch bags that offers consumers radical transformation through incremental change - and this is a theme in Catherine’s life.
While today she is a successful entrepreneur, 22 years ago Catherine was in the throes of heroin addiction. Her story of recovery shows what happens when we let go of blame and imposter syndrome, and take responsibility for our lives. Her story also shows the power and transformation of developing a varied toolbox of recovery.
Catherine’s patchwork of recovery includes meditation, nutrition, breath work, cold showers and plant medicine ceremonies. In this episode, she shares the intimate and healing knowledge that plant medicine ceremonies helped her to uncover.
SoYoung, Catherine's company.
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Kerry is a woman recovering from depression and divorce. She spent years believing the sadness that enveloped her was normal, but also doing everything she could to hide it – and herself – from the world.
In a beautiful conversation about recovery and the evolution of true friendship, Erin talks with Kerry about her “grey ghost years,” a long stretch of time when Kerry suffered alone with depression. They also discuss marriage, their postpartum experiences, motherhood, narcissistic relationships, the power of therapy and how developing a deep reliance on a wide variety of recovery tools can truly save your life.
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Have you found that, despite years of therapy and using other tools of recovery, you still feel stuck in old beliefs and stories?
In this episode, Taryn talks about "the issues in our tissues" and how we can unwittingly be held hostage by old traumas, which can be stored in our bodies, as well as in our minds.
Taryn offers a lesson in how bodywork and body awareness can help you heal from whatever you may struggling with - a behavior, a toxic relationship, a trauma, or other mental health challenges.
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In this episode, Dawn shares her thoughts on early intervention - choosing to come into recovery before a hard, low bottom.
Listening to your own voice of truth in the often-fleeting moments of self awareness - this can be the seed of recovery that eventually blossoms into a life of health and wellness.
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Artist and activist Paula Williams talks with Erin about her interactive art installation, SHAMEBOOTH, a groundbreaking live experience that asks you to speak — and own — your shame. In a wide-ranging conversation, Erin and Paula talk how recovery changes our marriages, workaholism, the shame of grieving and their mutual love of Brené Brown.
https://shamebooth.org/
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Erin Shaw Street is a writer, editor and creator whose media project, Tell Better Stories, challenged media and marketing professionals to question their role in how alcohol is promoted and glamorized to women. In this episode, Erin Wickersham talks with Erin about her work and how it is evolving. The Erins also talk about prohibition, how to be an activist without the “fight,” parenting and moving through life without a plan.
http://www.erinshawstreet.com/
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Taryn talks with Pamela Devenport, who was kidnapped and held for ransom at age 18. The event and subsequent unhealed trauma "detonated" her use of alcohol. After years of using substances and distractions to avoid her pain, Pamela eventually sought help and is now passionate about breaking the stigma surrounding addiction. She is a certified SHE RECOVERS Coach, an educator, as well as founder of the platform, My Badass Recovery. Her mission is to create clarity and empowerment around addition and recovery.
https://www.mybadassrecovery.com/
Pamela's Insight Timer Meditation "Owning your Truth" http://insig.ht/gm_39821
Pamela's Insight Timer Meditation "Being your Best Friend" http://insig.ht/gm_61285
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Tosha Silver is a teacher and author who challenges us to change our sense of identify from “struggling human” to Divine Source of Love. Her latest book, “It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance,” focuses on ways we can create financial wellness and a healthier relationship with money. No matter what your current financial situation, Tosha’s teachings will expand your perception of what is possible in your life.
https://toshasilver.com/
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Taryn shares the lessons she has learned from using the plant medicine Ayahuasca. She tells how incorporating this modality into her patchwork of recovery has helped her to stay true to herself. She also addresses many of the questions she received after posting about her experience on her Instagram page.
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Dawn shares what has been in her heart and on her mind as a woman in a 12 step program. She starts a conversation that requires urgency, as well as gentle thoughtfulness.
Deanna Axe lost her daughter and grandson to addiction. Her story will break your heart, help mend it, move you to find ways of reaching those in pain, and forever change how you talk with your own children about drugs and addiction.
Deanna is a SHE RECOVERS® Coach and founder of Addicted to Hope. Her work is dedicated to addiction education and support, fighting for the end of "rock bottom" treatment practices, and ending the shame and stigma of the disease of addiction.
You can find out more about Deanna and her work at Addicted to Hope.
Part of remembering yourself is looking at the totality of our experiences and teasing out behaviors from causes. It is understanding how your individual story is impacted and connected to the wider story of Culture. In this episode, Erin reflects on Monica Lewinsky, the Dixie Chicks, Alanis Morissette and the surprising ways our stories overlap with one another.
You can read more of Erin’s work and sign up for her monthly newsletter, “Stories Are Medicine,” on her website erinwickersham.com.
We live in a world where no matter what/how much we have, we never seem to have enough. In this episode, author Courtney Carver shares her decade-long search to find a life of Soulful Simplicity by dialing back her ego and listening to her heart.
She describes this work as “radically simplified change done gently,” and offers fun lifestyle challenges that will inspire you to free yourself from unnecessary things, harmful expectations and the excesses of our chronically busy lives.
Courtney’s website is Be More With Less. Her book is “Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More.”
Eight years ago, Jean McCarthy began an anonymous sober blog to keep herself accountable and connect with others. Today, she is an award-winner author and podcaster – but more importantly to Jean, she is wholly the woman, friend, wife, grandmother and matriarch she always knew herself to be. Jean’s story of becoming “Unpickled,” and learning to fully embrace her gifts, will surprise you with its rawness and beauty.
You can find out more about Jean and link to both her podcast and blog, on her website jeanmccarthy.ca.
Jean and Taryn mentioned two songs that inspire Jean. Those were:
My Oh My, Punch Brothers
Ong Namo, Snatam Kaur
Join Taryn for a heart healing, guided meditation.
A beautiful and potent practice to support your journey of cultivating compassion, forgiveness and self love. Loving Kindness meditation is also an amazing resource for those seeking freedom from shame or stuck in a cycle of blame.
Losing your mother is not something many of us ever truly recover from. If you loved your mom so much that you are practically certain that you can’t go on, SHE RECOVERS® founder Dawn Nickel has a few things she would like to share with you – beautiful, painful truths she has learned from the loss of her own mother.
You can also read this piece on the SHE RECOVERS blog.
We are so excited for Ester Nicholson to join us on the SR Podcast! Ester is a recovery coach, author, speaker and recording artist. You may remember Ester from our SHE RECOVERS® LA conference in September 2018. She led one of the most popular breakout sessions of that event, the FINDING FORGIVENESS WORKSHOP.
Ester talks about how healing our past hurts and traumas can awaken us to our authentic, amazing and powerful selves. She also gifts us with a beautiful "Prayer of Forgiveness."
You can find more about Ester and her amazing work on her website, esternicholson.com.
How do our marriages and partnerships evolve as our recovery deepens and grows? For Erin, her "resentment gems" kept her in a story where her marriage was safe as long as both she and her husband stayed in the prescribed roles: angry wife, distracted provider.
It was a vicious, but familiar, cycle. Until the day the cycle fell apart.
Taryn is in Mexico on a SHE RECOVERS® retreat but manages to pull herself away from the beach to call Erin Wickersham, co-host of the SHE RECOVERS® podcast. Taryn and Erin talk about the need to change and expand the language of recovery; and Erin shares how her stories of motherhood and relationships have shifted from "work/harsh" to "joy/soft."
Taryn’s interview on the Bubble Hour
Erin’s interview on the Bubble Hour
Shamebooth
Oprah’s interview with Charles Eisenstein, author of A More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.
In the first SHE RECOVERS® podcast episode, SHE RECOVERS® founder Dawn Nickel shares what "we are all recovering from something" means to her and what fundamental truth she has discovered in her three decades of recovery.
Taryn shares about the importance of showing up - even when it's the last thing you want to do, even when you're terrified - and how she is recovering her voice through the SHE RECOVERS® podcast. She talks about how embarking on this new creative project reminds her of her early days as a yoga teacher, which was another experience that terrified and expanded her in all the best ways.
Taryn shares the story of how SHE RECOVERS® evolved from a mother/daughter duo with an inspiring Facebook page to an international movement creating welcoming spaces and transformative opportunities for women seeking recovery.