SHE RECOVERS Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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.

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/

In this candid conversation, Dr. Tiffany Wynn speaks with SHE RECOVERS Co-Founder Dr.Dawn Nickel about:

• The herstory of SHE RECOVERS Foundation - born from Dawn’s longing to find an inclusive recovery community
•  Dawn’s personal experience as a woman recovering from substance use disorder, codependency, overworking and intergenerational trauma
• Recovery as a family affair
• Why recovering out-loud, redefining recovery and providing identity-based support are all essential in our society today

You will also hear Dr. Tiffany read the January 30th meditation about infant loss from Dawn’s new book ‘She Recovers Everyday’ and explore how we can heal - from all the things - when we truly feel a sense of connection and belonging.

DR. TIFFANY WYNN

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. Tiffany holds many professional roles including trainer and consultant for academic and treatment organizations, and she is also a woman in long term recovery. Tiffany embodies all that we believe in here at SHE RECOVERS and infuses the SHE RECOVERS inclusive recovery community ethos into all that she does.

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 Every Day: Meditations for Women’
Amplifying Women’s Stories in Recovery Advocacy
SHE RECOVERS Together Online
SHE RECOVERS Chapters
SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circles
SHE RECOVERS in Chicago
SHE RECOVERS Trusted Resources

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.

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 F*ck 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/