The Movement of Recovery | The Meadows: Knowledge Network

The Movement of Recovery

Jennifer Angier, MS, Vice President of Addiction Services, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare


Participants in this workshop will be challenged to recognize the intimate qualities of the absence, the emergence, and the living experience of recovery in those patients who are struggling with the disease of addiction, trauma, and mental illness. Often, these patients have experienced a broad range of difficulties in their efforts to come to terms with the impact trauma, anger isolation, addiction and mental illness has had on all facets of their lives. Participants will also be engaged to broaden their own understanding of the intimate qualities of their own abstinence.


Innovative approaches and a variety of patient interventions will be shared in an interactive, experiential setting that will help participants identify the spirituality behind a collaborative therapeutic exchange. This interactive dialogue will provide an opportunity for therapists, healthcare providers and those in long term and new to recovery to expand the realm of their personal recovery and their ability to offer hope to patients, colleagues, and devastated families as they start taking their first steps in recovery.


As a result of this presentation, participants will come to view and utilize therapeutic interventions not merely as a sterile interaction to elicit change, but also as an emotional and spiritual experience that will empower those they are invited to help — or themselves — to dedicate their efforts to connect with their recovery. This pathway leads us all from living in our obstacles and struggles to finding solutions and places of hope. The journey from pain to redemption is a story that provides hope to those who are edging toward living deeply in the movement of recovery.