Caroline Beidler, MSW is an author, speaker, and the Managing Editor of Recovery.com, a company that combines independent research with expert guidance on addiction and mental health treatment. Our mission is to help everyone find the best path to recovery through the most comprehensive, helpful network of treatment providers worldwide. She is the author of three books, Downstairs Church, You Are Not Your Trauma, and When You Love Someone in Recovery: A Hopeful Guide for Understanding Addiction with Nelson Books, coming Spring 2026. Her own lived experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to help other others find recovery in all its varying forms. In four short years, she has built a global network of recovery supporters through her storytelling platform and accompanying newsletter, Circle of Chairs which reaches thousands weekly. She is a creative and visionary, founding an annual global event on International Women’s Day with different sponsoring organizations each year that brings in thousands of supporters, along with co-leading a global research initiative on family recovery with leaders around the world. Her writing is described as funny, gritty, relatable, and insightful. When she isn’t writing, speaking, or building community, Caroline lives in Eastern Tennessee with her husband and six-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.

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Learn more about my books here.

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More about Me (if you are still on my website, I hope we are going to be friends...so here is a bit more casual vibe)

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A few of my favorite things are:

• Walking in the woods (especially with my twins, Henrick and Violet)

• Reading (I've got an eclectic taste in books and love a good spiritual non-fiction or book about the craft of writing)

• Uncomfortable conversations

• Recovery meetings of all shapes and sizes (AA, NA, Celebrate Recovery, the list goes on)

• Pairing a denim shirt, dangly earrings, and sweatpants (I live on Zoom most work days)

• Green tea and cookie dough ice cream (have I mentioned I may love contradictions?)

• Speaking to a room full of women about recovery

• Date night with the hubs at our favorite local restaurant that serves stellar mocktails (my husband is a physicist who always gives me something to think about)

What I'm SO over right now:

• Small talk and caring what people think

• Mommy wine culture (unless it’s to challenge it)

• Low-waisted jeans (I mean, really? why?)

• Any more Zoom meetings than absolutely necessary

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