My daughter Taryn and I refer to the She Recovers movement as our "accidental movement." We never set out to start it, but we are grateful that some of what we had to say so many years ago sparked something for so many women in or seeking recovery. We trace the movement's beginnings back to our Facebook page and a brief manifesto that I drafted to capture what I thought a women's recovery practice could look like.
In that document, I suggested that "She Recovers" when: She is encouraged to choose her own recovery path. She creates a vision for how she wants her life to be.
She takes small and steady steps toward her vision. She makes peace with her past.
She finally understands that self-care is the secret to her recovery. Taryn and I shared the manifesto widely on our social media channels between 2012 and 2017, and those five ideas resonated with a lot of women.
They informed our current set of ten Intentions & Guiding Principles, which now underpins everything. We might have started the conversation, but the movement itself is a co-creation of thousands of women across the world.