Invite Your New Beginning

hope and your mental health in the new year

Recovery is a journey into new beginnings. It is a process of learning how to hope. Loving ourselves and others. It is a wandering into new passions and purpose. Discovering the freedom of forgiveness. Recovery is a rebirth.

The new year is also an opportunity to start again.

Re-focus.

Reset.

Re-engage.

Redefine.

Discover those places where we want—and need—to grow to live more fully, freely, joyfully, present.

Where is your recovery (or that of someone you love or work with) going in 2025? What are you doing to thrive and what is important to you? Complete this brief survey for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card in January!

Last year (which feels far away already), I sent out a survey and learned so much from you about what makes your recovery work, how you are thriving, and also things that you’d like to learn about and focus on in the new year. Based on your feedback, these were the areas that are the most important in your journey:

Mental Health and Wellness - and addressing things like anxiety and depression

Recovery Pathways - and exploring ways we can let go of lonely

Sharing Stories of Recovery - and discovering how creativity can promote healing

I’ve decided to keep the survey going because it’s been so incredible hearing and learning from you. In order to bring content that serves you in 2025, will you take a couple minutes to take the survey now? Your insight and input are valuable. Your voice and story matters.

This year, together, let’s explore the areas of the recovery journey that we care about.

What’s important to you in the new year?

Where is your focus?

Share in the comments below to encourage the Circle of Chairs community.

PS. Did you also know that this month I’M CELEBRATING A RECOVERY BIRTHDAY (14 years to be exact)?

In the rooms of recovery meetings or other types of support groups like divorce or grief support groups, there is usually a circle of chairs (the name of this newsletter for a reason). I love this image. It is a visual reminder that we are never alone. We can have, if we choose, a circle of support around us as we go to the deep places, the hard places in our stories. Not to stay there, but to be transformed.

Thank you for my recovery - one day at a time.

This year, I’m so excited and honored to be on this journey with you. Together, let’s journey into the new.