Join Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with the founder of In the Meantime, a recovery residence for women in South Carolina, Tiffany Knight.

Tiffany shares that:

"At In the Meantime, we’ll provide a safe, substance-free recovery residence to bridge the gap, while increasing the likelihood of success on their long-term recovery journey.

I have had an intimate experience with addiction and recovery. As a child of a (now deceased) recovering addict and recovering myself, I will be the first to tell you the journey to recovery is not easy. In 2002, I found myself homeless and all out of options. I had burned every bridge I crossed.

A piece of my story: I was dropped off at a detox center in 2002. After 7 days of detox I was discharged with the clothes on my back, a bus pass, and one phone call. My phone call was to a Goodwill shelter who had one mat on the floor. I begged them to hold that mat on the floor for me, and I would be there as soon as possible. I started this journey with a mat on the floor and a little bit of hope. Where I have been and where I am now is what motivates my continued sobriety today and provides me the passion and willpower to assist other women in need.

In 2002 “In the Meantime” was just a dream. Today it is a reality."

Join Caroline as she talks with Tiffany about why recovery housing or access to recovery residences for women is so important for the recovery journey.

You'll also learn some helpful tips for starting a recovery home, like the National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR) resources, along with how to build trauma-informed and resilience-centered practice into recovery residence programming.

Tiffany will share about her amazing model for women's recovery housing!

“The gift for me is the empowerment of women recovering together.”

To learn more about how you can support In the Meantime, visit the website at:

https://itmrecoveryresidence.org/

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 meaning in a shared recovery story?

What impact can recovery stories have on our journey and how we show up for others?

Join Caroline Beidler, MSW as she shares about her first experience of being connected to a recovery story through her friend and mentor, Florence (Flo) Hilliard. Caroline also connects with women advocates across the U.S. including Lucy Battles, Tara Moreno, and Diane Scott. These incredible women share about the power of the recovery story in their own life and in their work in the recovery field.

If you connect with power of story or would like to, visit www.brightstoryshine.com and check out the latest blog posts.

You can also submit your #brightstory of recovery here.

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 trafficking and how do we help other women regain their voice?

Join Caroline Beidler, MSW as she talks with Sophie Otiende, a woman whose work impacts women across the globe.

Sophie Otiende is a global women's rights leader and survivor advocate for survivors of human trafficking from Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on developing systems and processes for grassroots organizations. The past eight years she has focused on creating ethical standards for protection of survivors of trafficking, developing systems for organizations, training, and development of curriculum on both protection and awareness of human trafficking.

Her advocacy on standards of care and survivor engagement has made her an international speaker. She is also passionate about ethical engagement of survivors of trafficking in the sector and ethical storytelling. Sophie firmly believes in a future where empathy, harmony and trust can be articulated in processes and systems in institutions seamlessly. She is a 2015 Vital Voices Fellow and the recipient of the US Trafficking in Persons Report Hero 2020. She previously worked as the Regional Operations Manager – Africa for Liberty Shared and later as the Director of Consulting for Survivor Alliance. She has also served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS). She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery and the founder of a survivor led initiative in Kenya called Azadi that focuses on supporting survivors of trafficking with long term care and leadership skills to engage more in the human rights space. For more information check: www.sophieotiende.com