Because we are a mother-daughter team that started a women's recovery movement, my daughter and I talk often about what recovery will look like for the next generation of women in or seeking recovery. What we hope, with all sincerity, is that few women will need recovery, but we know that the opposite is probably true.
The world is a complicated place these days, and the pandemic has worsened an already-serious mental health epidemic in the youth and young adult population. What we envision, and what our community and organization is holding, is that more young women will know that there is help to heal their lives.
We older women have plenty of wisdom to share, but we are still learning too. We need to be joined by younger women if the modern women's recovery movement is to continue to thrive and grow.
We need younger women's energy, their ideas, and importantly, their passion. It won't hurt to have their technological skills, either.
I'm excited to see us grow in recovery, generations deep. I'll be here, cheering us on in our recovery, when I'm eighty.