More About Me (in that pro bio vibe)

Caroline Beidler, MSW believes that transformation is possible and healing is a choice. Her own experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to use her gifts to help other women find recovery in all its varying forms. In three short years, she has built a global network of recovery supporters through her storytelling platform and accompanying newsletter, Circle of Chairs which reaches thousands of people every week. 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. With almost 20 years in leadership within social work and ministry, she is a consultant with JBS International, writing about recovery topics for federal agencies and consulting with grassroots non-profit organizations, state governments, and international partners. When she isn’t writing, speaking, or building community, Caroline lives in Eastern Tennessee with her husband and five-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.

Learn more about my books here.

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)

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