Despite having a lot of personal experience with recovery, and even though my career is focused on researching and writing about women, mental health, and addiction, I never want to be thought of as someone who has all the answers. Or even a lot of the answers.
I have a lot of ideas and opinions and thoughts about women in recovery and a solid evidence and knowledge base, but also, I often feel like I'm just winging it when I talk or write about what works in women's recovery. I say that not because I don't value my own expertise, but because my expertise is based largely on my lived and living experience, as well as what I observe and have observed in other women who are in recovery.
You also have expertise, and I hope that you know and believe that. You are very much an expert in your own recovery.
Perhaps you feel like I do, that living our lives in recovery is a little bit of knowledge coupled with a whole bunch of experimentation. I'm glad we are in this together and can learn from one another.
Women's recovery is a field of its own, and I love that we get to play in that field together.