Caroline Beidler

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. Her own lived experience in addiction, mental health, and trauma recovery inspires her to help other others find recovery in all its varying forms. She has built a global network of recovery supporters through her podcast and Substack newsletter, Circle of Chairs which reaches thousands weekly. She is a creative and visionary who founded the Women's Recovery Leadership Foundation, a unique foundation that provides seed grants to women-led recovery initiatives. 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 seven-year-old twins where she enjoys hiking in the mountains and building up her community’s local recovery ministry.