The Role of Gender in Recovery | With Marya Hornbacher

A Fellowship of People: Recovery and Gender Roles with Marya Hornbacher, award-winning journalist and best-selling author.
This week’s #MentalHealthMonday features Marya Hornbacher’s insightful and engaging look at the many ways gender and recovery intersect. Marya will discuss the influence of our own conscious and unconscious assumptions about gender roles on our behaviours and beliefs in recovery. We will also look at how we can detach from unhealthy dynamics without losing access to the valuable insights and fellowship the recovery community can provide. Lastly, Marya’s presentation explores the ways in which we can make recovery more accessible to newcomers and move toward a more equitable recovery for all.
About Marya Hornbacher:
Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist, essayist, novelist, poet, and the New York Times bestselling author of five books. She is the recipient of a host of awards for journalism and a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Marya published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia in 1998 when she was twenty-three. Her other titles include:
✅The Centre of Winter
✅A memoir titled Madness: A Bipolar Life, chronicles the years following Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
✅Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps
✅Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power
🔗 Marya’s Website: www.maryahornbacher.com
Video Content:
00:00 - Opening remarks and introduction
03:24 - Gender Identity and Recovery
12:28 - Bias and Belief
14:23 - Before Recovery (Behaviour and Belief)
17:34 - Into Recovery (Behaviour and Belief)
19:40 - Gender and Recovery (Historical Context)
22:20 - Gender & Sexualization
27:22 - Becoming Gender Informed
34:00 - Community Q&A
The SHE RECOVERS® Foundation Weekly 'Mental Health Monday Educational Series' is composed of hour-long, live, recovery-focused educational sessions featuring today's leaders in women's wellness, mental health, addiction recovery, and healing.
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[@y0url0cald1saster]

LOVE this. Marya always offers such great perspective, especially regarding recovery.

[@sherwpinkhair]

Yeah...more hours with this brilliant woman. Thanks for reminding me of who i am

[@MissyMcDermott]

God she's a genius. My favorite book is Center of Winter, a great piece of fiction!

[@sherwpinkhair]

❤❤❤

[@LucieBeatrix]

I am so grateful to hear this from Marya! Longtime follower of her work and always find value from what she has to say.

[@aliisakangas7606]

5 likes in 3 months? blasphemy. she's phenomenal.

[@jamesd6996]

truly good authors are not going to have many likes. "Likes" are based on a mass mentality ...herds of sheep that are not of high intelligence.

[@rlgilesgmailcom]

Incredibly interesting! The words that I choose to use, in any setting that is trying to impart their, "this is the only way, you will get better type stuff, simply anywhere, is: Always Question the Process! People look at me like I am a nut job, but what makes them right and me wrong! So glad someone sent me one of your reels! Keep teaching, keep questioning the process. I love to stop people in their tracks!