This might be day one of your recovery, or you may be beginning again.  Maybe you are just curious about your relationship with alcohol and want to experience some time without it.  Ground with an intention not to drink today in this meditation where we explore proof  that recovery is possible. Through the moving account of my friend Julie's four-year sobriety milestone, we glean inspiration and hope, understanding that her path can illuminate our own.  Despite all we have been through, and any fear of the future, we invite a compassionate  presence where we spend time breathing together.
 
 Julie's story is a testament to the belonging that dedication to one's well-being can reveal, and we hope that by listening, you too will be inspired to spread the light of recovery, knowing that self-care and love are the most powerful contributors to the world's beauty.  We'd be honoured if you shared this episode with someone who is exploring recovery from substance use.
 
 This meditation is influenced by Yoga Sutra 1.1 which loosely translates to "Now Begins Yoga".  Yoga is a self-reliant healing system, and in so many ways, your recovery practices can be a self-reliant healing system of your own design!  I invite you to further explore the lessons in yoga that scaffold recovery.  Follow this podcast for weekly tools you can try, deciding for yourself which of them support your most beautiful life.  You can also listen to this meditation every time you'd like to commit to your wellbeing.
 
 This meditation has Jennifer's Voice only.  If you enjoy your meditations with music, that fills the empty spaces,  please visit Episode 2.
 
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She Recovers® is an organization that hosts retreats and online gatherings for anyone identifying with women's communities and is in recovery (from anything).  I take turns volunteer teaching online, free yoga classes there with a host of trained trauma-informed yoga teachers.  You can find us at:

https://sherecovers.org/canada/. 

I also mention my friend Julie, who volunteers  as a facilitator of twice daily,  free online gatherings as a trained She Recovers® Coach.  If you need a Julie in your life too, you can find her at:

https://www.mysoberself.ca.

Julie's story is shared with her permission.  Part of that story includes treatment.  You can find a link to the treatment centre that supported her healing here:
 
 https://www.edgewoodhealthnetwork.com/locations/edgewood/
 
If private treatment is not within your means, I am just building a website with some other, free resources.  It is coming soon, and you will find it really soon at:
 
 https://www.theelderflower.ca
 
  I would like to acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of Sinixt Peoples. I make this acknowledgment to show my respect for the tmxʷulaʔxʷ (homeland), and Sinixt Nation. I feel privileged and grateful to be here, and I invite those reading this to explore their own relationship to place.