Circle of Chairs
Caroline Beidler, MSW, Allison Deraney, Tawny Lara, Kimberly Phinney, Jessica Guerrieri, Sarah WaltonAddiction recovery expert and author, Caroline Beidler, MSW explores mental health, supporting loved ones with addiction, trauma, and more. Pull up a chair.
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I Told My Kids, “Next Time”
“Can we put a pin where we live?” My son asked.
“Where is our street? Has anyone prayed there?” My daughter chimed in and reached for a pin.
I brushed away their tiny hands and told them valiantly we would do it. Pray while we walked. Nex...
13 Things I Know After 13 Years Sober
I told my friends recently that I need more fiction in my life. This week we are hearing from my friend , author of a couple of can’t-put-them-down novels about main characters in recovery. She knows fiction and she knows recovery. Let’s we...
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Searching for home
“I was born homesick.”1
Brushing my fingertips along the perimeter of the school yard fence. Looking for dandelions in the grass. Searching for safety in the sky. As a kid, I felt homesick.
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Read for Recovery
“Books are a privilege.”
With lowered eyes, one of the women told me this after I handed her the pages.
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Caroline Beidler, MSW is a trained mental health clinician and certified addiction recovery specialist. Her next book, When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide to Understanding Addiction, is available now with Nelson Books.
Mom to two humans and two canines, a sober woman in midlife being nurtured by nature, a lawyer who would rather be writing.
\ud83e\udd18\ud83c\udffdYour fav writing teacher's fav writing teacher / \ud83d\udcdaAuthor of Dry Humping / \ud83e\udd43 Non-Alc cofounder / \ud83e\udebeFounder of Rooted Relations
\ud83e\udeb4your faithful professor & poet counselor | founder of TheWayBack2Ourselves.com & The Way Back Books | ✍\ud83c\udffc a \ud83d\udcd6 with Baker on art, faith, & belonging
Book club literary fiction author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and Both Can Be True (May 2026). Writing about motherhood, sobriety, recovery, healing, and hope.
I'm a follower of Jesus, Lyme Disease and childhood neurodivergence advocate, chronic overthinker, and author of several books.
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