SHE RECOVERS Podcast

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 challen

SHE RECOVERS Podcast is a education podcast hosted by SHE RECOVERS®, with 82 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #83

  Our Recovery Matters: Black Joy, Authenticity & Healing with Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon

  Aug 18, 202657 minS6

  What happens when recovery becomes more than surviving? When joy itself becomes an act of resistance? In this vulnerable and liberating conversation, Codi Renee Blackmon, PhD, shares how reclaiming authenticity, celebrating Black joy, and refusing to conform to the expectations of white-dominant culture transformed not only her own recovery, but the way she leads, parents, and cultivates inclusive communities. Together, Dr. Codi Renee and SHE RECOVERS team member Lisa Wall explore: Why Black joy is both an act of resistance and a pathway to healing How authenticity became the foundation of her recovery and leadership Why race, trauma, and recovery cannot be separated How centering marginalized voices creates recovery communities where everyone has the opportunity to experience a sense of belonging ABOUT CODI RENEE BLACKMON, PhD Codi Renee Blackmon, PhD, is a scholar, educator, and recovery leader passionate about creating accountable, inclusive spaces where people feel seen, heard, and valued. She brings together her experiences in recovery, teaching, writing, and research to amplify marginalized voices and support multiple pathways to healing. A Black woman celebrating recovery, Codi Renee supports people in recovery from trauma, mental health challenges, burnout, grief, codependency, and oppression. She is especially committed to supporting women, parents in recovery, neurodivergent minds, and Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and women of color. ABOUT LISA WALL Lisa is a certified trauma professional, somatic practitioner, educator, and SHE RECOVERS Coach with additional training in addiction medicine, sound healing, circadian biology, intimacy education, and herbalism. With more than two decades of experience in community leadership, group facilitation, and program development, she integrates evidence-based practice with deep respect for lived experience and the wisdom of nature. As a senior leader with the SHE RECOVERS Foundation, she develops recovery-focused programming and helps inform equitable and trauma-informed standards of community care for women in recovery. Lisa lives and works on a remote island, where slow living, ritual, and reciprocity with the natural world continue to shape both her own recovery and the way she leads. EPISODE RESOURCES Our Recovery website https://bit.ly/ourrecovery Follow Codi Renee & Our Recovery on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourrecovery Connect on Facebook https://www.instagram.com/our_recovery_matters/ Unveiling Racial Dynamics: Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous & Women of Color Technical Communication Within White-Dominant Online Recovery Support Spaces by Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon http://hdl.handle.net/10342/14021 Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise https://youtu.be/NzQtGCw49uc?si=i4ZBWg0hblv3ChmG

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  Episode #82

  Recovery, Reinvention & Why It's Never Too Late with Jen Pastiloff

  Jul 7, 20261h 3mS6

  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 workshops when 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.

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  Episode #81

  Writing for Recovery & Connection with Clover Stroud

  Jun 9, 202654 minS6

  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.

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  Episode #80

  Sobriety, Breathwork, and Reclaiming Indigenous Roots with Ariana Fotinakis

  May 19, 202658 minS6

  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.

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  Episode #79

  Recovering From Overcoming with Emi Nietfeld

  Apr 27, 202636 minS6

  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

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