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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Aug 26, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 18: SHAMEBOOTH with Paula Williams
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/To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Aug 26, 2019 • 59min
Episode 17: Tell Better Stories with Erin Shaw Street
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/To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Aug 26, 2019 • 52min
Episode 15: Pamela Devenport's Badass Recovery
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_39821Pamela's Insight Timer Meditation "Being your Best Friend" http://insig.ht/gm_61285 To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Aug 26, 2019 • 45min
Episode 16: It's Not Your Money with Tosha Silver
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/To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Aug 26, 2019 • 55min
Episode 14: Taryn's Ayahuasca Experience
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.To visit the SHE RECOVERS website, click here.SHE RECOVERS Facebook Page, click here.SHE RECOVERS Instagram Page, click here.
Aug 26, 2019 • 13min
Episode 13: Dear Women in 12 Step Programs
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.
Jul 15, 2019 • 49min
Episode 12: Addicted To Hope
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.
Jul 15, 2019 • 8min
Episode 11: Monica Lewinsky, the Dixie Chicks, Alanis Morissette and Me
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.
Jul 15, 2019 • 44min
Episode 10: Soulful Simplicity
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.”
Jul 15, 2019 • 46min
Episode 9: Unpickled
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 BrothersOng Namo, Snatam Kaur
