MEGHANN PERRY

I am an addiction recovery coach, family coach, speaker, storyteller, actor, teaching artist and activist.

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As a Massachusetts Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and CCAR Recovery Coach Professional, I work with adolescents, men and women who have substance use disorders, helping them navigate early recovery and helping them build a foundation for long term recovery. I also work with their families to help them learn how to better support their loved one's path of recovery. I am available for interventions to assist families in convincing their loved ones in active addiction to enter treatment. I am available in Eastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Greater Boston area.

As a speaker for the last five years I’ve shared my own journey with addiction, incarceration and recovery, on the topics of mass incarceration and addiction in society, and as an advocate for the national recovery movement. I’ve been a panelist and speaker at Wellesley College, Harvard Law School, and the State House. I’ve been featured on the radio and in print countless times, and in the CBS News documentary, “Faith, Hope and the Burden of Addiction.”

I fell in love with storytelling when I went to my first Moth story slam and I’ve been at it ever since, winning many competitions and being featured as a guest in many venues, including Massmouth and WGBH’s collaboration, Stories from the Stage, and the PRX Podcast Garage.

I utilize storytelling and its ability to empower, connect and heal people in my facilitation of groups for all ages and populations. I design and facilitate storytelling workshops for people in recovery and families struggling with a loved one’s substance use disorder, as well as workshops teaching professional storytellers how to work with this population and use positive recovery messaging in their work. I am the co-creator and co-facilitator of Phoenix Tales Recovery Storytelling, a workshop series teaching the art of storytelling to people impacted by substance use disorder. Check out South Shore Peer Recovery for more info. 

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I am a teaching artist, advisor and facilitator for the Creative Outlets program based in Dennis, MA, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. This program for youth ages 12-16 uses multi-disciplinary creative outlets as a prevention tool, helping them to grow in areas like decision-making and resilience, using the evidence-based Botvin curriculum as a foundation. 
 

I am an actor, teaching artist and board member with Improbable Players, a theater troupe of actors in long term recovery who perform plays about substance use in schools. The troupe opens up a dialogue about substance use and candidly shares their own experience with addiction and recovery in response to students' questions. I also lead prevention workshops with students, including students at Ostiguy Recovery High School in Boston.

I serve on the Advisory Council of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services’ Journey Project, a web-based resource for women navigating pregnancy, motherhood and substance use disorder recovery. I assist with content development and provide information and support, as well as being one of the Journey moms featured in videos on the site.