Your Bright Recovery
With host, Caroline Beidler, MSW, explore what it means to be in addiction, mental health, and/or trauma recovery. Learn practical recovery tools, hear from experts, and listen to exclusive interviews celebrating your story of recovery and resilience.
Episodes
18 episodes
Episode 18: The Importance of Women's Recovery Housing with Tiffany Knight
Join Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with the founder of In the Meantime, a recovery residence for women in South Carolina, ...
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Episode 18
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29:57
Episode 17: Celebrating Recovery Month and the Impact of Our Stories
September is National Recovery Month, a time when recovery advocates and allies celebrate the reality that recovery is possible. How do stories impact us? How can we find meani...
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Episode 17
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17:19
Episode 16: The Power of Voice with Sophie Otiende
Why is it important to think bigger, think globally, when we consider Recovery Month? Why should we learn more about intersecting issues like gender-based violence, trauma, and human t...
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Episode 16
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32:03
Episode 15: Healthy Grieving with Kate J. Meyer, MDiv, LPC
What does healthy grieving look like?How do we embrace all of the emotions surrounding profound loss? What is disenfranchised grief - or grief that is wrapped into the stigmatization of addiction loss? Join Caroli...
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Episode 15
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26:34
Episode 14: Redeeming Loss and Finding Purpose with Pattie Vargas
In honor of International Overdose Awareness Day, Caroline Beidler, MSW connects with a mom who has been personally touched by overdose loss. Pattie Vargas lost her son, Joel, in November ...
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Episode 14
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23:38
Episode 13: Being Real, Getting Healed with Manda Carpenter
Radical honesty is something that challenges our lives and the way we live day-to-day. In mental health and addiction recovery, radical honesty does lead to radical healing. Manda Carpenter knows this firsthand, surviving trauma as a ch...
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Episode 13
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26:31
Episode 12: The Suprising Movement of God with Faith Eury Cho
Can God move in unexpected ways? Can everyone have a purpose?How can we all support women, specifically women of color, on their faith and recovery journey?Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with
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Episode 12
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22:39
Episode 11: What Happens in the Downstairs Church? (and a bit more about my book)
Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she explores the concept of radical vulnerability and how this is played out in the recovery community.What happens in the Downstairs Church?
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Episode 11
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15:40
Episode 10: Leading with Heart with Dora Wright
Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with Dora Wright, the Founder and Executive Director of the Chicago Recovering Communities Coalition about recovery, leadership and the gifts of being o...
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Episode 10
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21:30
Episode 9: Family Recovery By Design with Naetha Uren
How can families recover together? Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with Naetha Uren about family recovery. Naetha shares her experience living with 4 generatio...
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Episode 9
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21:23
Episode 8: A Heart for Service with Dr. Mary Roberson
Join Caroline Beidler, MSW as she speaks with Dr. Mary Roberson, the founder of the North Illinois Recovery Community Organization (NIRCO). She shares a part of her own recovery journey as a woman and Veteran and also how she was moved t...
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Episode 8
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28:30
Episode 7: Why Language Accessibility Matters with Angelo Lagares
Caroline Beidler, MSW talks with recovery advocate Angelo Lagares about why language accessibility for all Spanish speakers is important. He shares historical context, along with why having accountability with the provision of cultural and ling...
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Episode 7
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33:44
Episode 6: Supporting Women in Recovery with Annalice Argyle
Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with Annalice Argyle, Founder of TracUK and woman in recovery who lives in Middlesbrough, England, about issues that effect women in or seeking recovery...
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Episode 6
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35:45
Answering the Call to Service with Bobbi Jo Reed
Join host Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with founder of the Healing House, Inc, Bobbi Jo Reed about what it is like to answer the call to service in recovery.Bobbi-Jo Reed is a person in long-term recovery with 26 years of continuo...
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Episode 5
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28:01
Finding Rest from Anxiety with Jon Seidl
Join an important conversation with Jon Seidl, the author of the best seller:
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Episode 4
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31:50
The Beauty of the Truth Teller: A Conversation with Elisa Morgan
Author and speaker Elisa Morgan shows us that a woman of faith and dignity does not (ever) have it all together. She struggles, yet is honest about her journey. She rejoices, even in the hard times. And through all of it, she shares that no mat...
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Episode 3
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30:54
Where is God in the Struggle of Addiction? A Conversation with Philip Yancey
If God is so good, then why is the world aching? Why am I in so much pain? How do I reconcile a loving God with a hurting world? In his writings, world-renowned and best-selling author and journalist,...
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Episode 2
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46:12