Rize Foundation provided funding to run a pilot program of Embodied Storytelling at Recovery Cafe Lowell in 2023, and we’re so excited to share the results! Evaluation of Embodied Storytelling Workshop at the Recovery Cafe This is an evaluation of a series of workshops facilitated by Meghann Perry of Recovery Revolution at the
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In this episode, professional storyteller, storytelling teacher, and recovery coach, Meghann Perry, joins hosts Phil and Sandy Valentine. Meghann pursued her love for acting and drama in her younger years but found her way into addiction as well. Discussion covers the desire for expressing creativity in one’s life, struggles with addiction, becoming a recovery coach,
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Revolution Recovery and the power of stories (ft. Meghann Perry) In this candid conversation Meghann speaks with podcast host, Dr. Tiffany Wynn, about:
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Revolution Recovery and the power of stories (ft. Meghann Perry) “My self awareness threatens your denial” – Meghann We continue the conversation around the importance of self-narrative and play. Meghann details how she uses theater performance to help people make sense of challenges they have faced in their lives, and how through play we can
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Revolution Recovery and the power of stories (ft. Meghann Perry) Meghann joins the host to discuss the fundamental issue with viewing a patient as a subject / object / recipient / commodity and the victim blaming mentality that is helping no one. We explore how substances don’t always cause addiction and that the desire for
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I washed up on threshold after threshold, chaotic and unkempt, dirty brown hair and hollow brown eyes, translucent and paper-thin. Dragged against my will, violently tossed against the door, crawling on a whisper, swept in like a dry leaf. Screaming in protest or brimming with hope, always in desperation. Thresholds of homeless shelters, crack houses,
I walk along the path alone, in silence but for the sound of my breath and the murmur of voices. They trail along behind me, tethered by the thinnest threads of unbreakable silk. They’re the lost ones. The dead. Friends, foes, acquaintances, randoms. They’re the heroes who battled side-by-side with me, each in their own
“Recovery Storytelling” combines the craft of storytelling with the advocacy and messaging of the recovery movement. I discovered the potential of this marriage of art and advocacy in 2016 at my first Moth Story Slam competition. In front of hundreds of people drinking alcohol at a comedy club, I stood alone at the microphone. I
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Could Recovery Storytelling be considered a “pathway” of recovery? If you’re not comfortable with that terminology, let’s explore how participation in Recovery storytelling workshops enhances and strengthens individual and community recovery, using creativity to unlock new perspectives about ourselves and helping us build connections inside and outside of recovery. There are many aspects of the
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The ocean sings her song to me and the sand shifts under my feet, the water stealing little threads from between each toe, pulling and tugging this way and that, drawing the ground almost imperceptibly away from under me. I know this familiar pull, this incremental theft of footing, this call of darker water that
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