SHE RECOVERS Podcast
The SHE RECOVERS® Podcast is a series of intimate and candid conversations exploring the diverse and deeply personal world of recovery. Join co-founder Taryn Strong and other SHE RECOVERS team members and their guests for heartfelt, thought-provoking, and sometimes hilarious discussions where women share their experiences with mental health challenges, addiction, sobriety, trauma, grief, burnout, and more. Each conversation opens into collective wisdom and courageous vulnerability, shared by people whose lives are enriched by following their own unique pathways and patchworks of recovery. The atmosphere is inclusive and non-judgmental, with truth taking center stage. If you’re seeking deeper connection and empowerment on your recovery journey, you belong here.
SHE RECOVERS Foundation is both a non-profit public charity in Canada and the US and a global grassroots movement serving thousands of women and non-binary individuals in or seeking recovery from life challenges, including mental health issues, trauma, and substance use.
SHE RECOVERS is dedicated to redefining recovery, inspiring hope, ending stigma, and empowering women to increase their recovery capital, heal themselves, and help others to do the same.
Visit sherecovers.org to donate today.
***The SHE RECOVERS® Podcast is edited on the stolen and sacred lands of the Coast Salish Peoples—an area that is now colonially known as Salt Spring Island, Canada.***
SHE RECOVERS Podcast
Our Recovery Matters: Black Joy, Authenticity & Healing with Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon
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What happens when recovery becomes more than surviving? When joy itself becomes an act of resistance?
In this vulnerable and liberating conversation, Codi Renee Blackmon, PhD, shares how reclaiming authenticity, celebrating Black joy, and refusing to conform to the expectations of white-dominant culture transformed not only her own recovery, but the way she leads, parents, and cultivates inclusive communities.
Together, Dr. Codi Renee and SHE RECOVERS team member Lisa Wall explore:
- Why Black joy is both an act of resistance and a pathway to healing
- How authenticity became the foundation of her recovery and leadership
- Why race, trauma, and recovery cannot be separated
- How centering marginalized voices creates recovery communities where everyone has the opportunity to experience a sense of belonging
ABOUT CODI RENEE BLACKMON, PhD
Codi Renee Blackmon, PhD, is a scholar, educator, and recovery leader passionate about creating accountable, inclusive spaces where people feel seen, heard, and valued. She brings together her experiences in recovery, teaching, writing, and research to amplify marginalized voices and support multiple pathways to healing.
A Black woman celebrating recovery, Codi Renee supports people in recovery from trauma, mental health challenges, burnout, grief, codependency, and oppression. She is especially committed to supporting women, parents in recovery, neurodivergent minds, and Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and women of color.
ABOUT LISA WALL
Lisa is a certified trauma professional, somatic practitioner, educator, and SHE RECOVERS Coach with additional training in addiction medicine, sound healing, circadian biology, intimacy education, and herbalism. With more than two decades of experience in community leadership, group facilitation, and program development, she integrates evidence-based practice with deep respect for lived experience and the wisdom of nature.
As a senior leader with the SHE RECOVERS Foundation, she develops recovery-focused programming and helps inform equitable and trauma-informed standards of community care for women in recovery. Lisa lives and works on a remote island, where slow living, ritual, and reciprocity with the natural world continue to shape both her own recovery and the way she leads.
EPISODE RESOURCES
Our Recovery website https://bit.ly/ourrecovery
Follow Codi Renee & Our Recovery on Instagram https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourrecovery
Connect on Facebook https://www.instagram.com/our_recovery_matters/
Unveiling Racial Dynamics: Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous & Women of Color Technical Communication Within White-Dominant Online Recovery Support Spaces by Dr. Codi Renee Blackmon http://hdl.handle.net/10342/14021
Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise https://youtu.be/NzQtGCw49uc?si=i4ZBWg0hblv3ChmG
Ready to continue learning with Dr. Codi Renee? Take our Inclusive Recovery Training: Anti-Racist Spaces of Belonging. The work doesn’t end here.
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