SHE RECOVERS Podcast
SHE RECOVERS®
The SHE RECOVERS® Podcast is a series of intimate and candid conversations exploring the diverse and deeply personal world of recovery. Join co-founder Taryn Strong and other SHE RECOVERS team members and their guests for heartfelt, thought-provoking, and sometimes hilarious discussions where women share their experiences with mental health challenges, addiction, sobriety, trauma, grief, burnout, and more. Each conversation opens into collective wisdom and courageous vulnerability, shared by people whose lives are enriched by following their own unique pathways and patchworks of recovery. The atmosphere is inclusive and non-judgmental, with truth taking center stage. If you’re seeking deeper connection and empowerment on your recovery journey, you belong here. SHE RECOVERS Foundation is both a non-profit public charity in Canada and the US 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 others to do the same. Visit sherecovers.org to donate today. ***The SHE RECOVERS® Podcast is edited on the stolen and sacred lands of the Coast Salish Peoples—an area that is now colonially known as Salt Spring Island, Canada.***
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Jan 20, 2020 • 57min
Episode 28: Quit Like a Woman with Holly Whitaker
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/To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Dec 2, 2019 • 38min
Episode 27: The Power of Connections
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.
Nov 25, 2019 • 16min
Episode 26: Intergenerational Trauma and Wisdom
"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. To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Nov 18, 2019 • 16min
Episode 25: You Are Not Your Past
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." To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 43min
Episode 24: Served Up Sober with Shari Hampton
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/ To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 1h 4min
Episode 23: Living WiL²D with Lori Ann Hazel
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.caTo visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 22: Becoming a Powerful Creator with Catherine Choi
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. To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 60min
Episode 21: Rising Strong: Recovering from Depression and Divorce
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. To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 24min
Episode 20: Trauma, Our Body and Brain
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.To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Oct 7, 2019 • 12min
Episode 19: We Believe in Early Intervention
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. To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here. SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here. SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
