When I started out talking about women's recovery in cyberspace, there weren't a whole heck of a lot of us doing it. In fact, in the North American context, the number of widely read blogs and related platforms would have numbered less than a dozen at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
The landscape has transformed in recent years. The number of women's recovery platforms—most with a focus on alcohol, but also recovery platforms more broadly—has exploded and continues to grow.
This is a very good thing. We need a lot of choices because we all need something different.
Everyone should be encouraged to design and deliver resources that are meaningful to them and the women they hope to reach. But here's the most important piece: we need to support one another in all our efforts.
We need to collaborate and share with one another, and we need to refer out to one another. One of the She Recovers Intentions & Guiding Principles reads, "Connection is our sole (soul) purpose.