The 2023 WFS Conference, EnJOY! The Journey, will be a virtual event that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home! The weekend will offer keynote speakers, twelve workshops, informal activities, and WFS meetings from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon. All women seeking or in recovery from
The 2023 WFS Conference will be a virtual event that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home! The weekend will offer keynote speakers, workshops, informal activities, and WFS meetings from Friday evening to mid-day Sunday. All women seeking or in recovery from substance use disorders are encouraged
Dr. Jean Kirkpatrick’s Legacy Dr. Kirkpatrick was recognized as an expert on addiction in women. Her dream to have women meet in self-help groups throughout the country has become a reality, both in location-based and online meetings. Treatment facilities also use the program. Thousands of women have used the New
“I love peanuts, peaches, dogs, little old ladies, walking along a beach, moonlit June evenings, the first snow, awaking in the early morning and watching dawn and sunrise, working in the garden, walking in the woods, meditating……These loves may seem too unimportant to be considered ‘loves,’ but they are the
Join WFS in Celebrating the Life of our Founder In 1973 Dr. Kirkpatrick set her plan of recovery into an acceptance program that she called New Life. In 1975, she used the name Women for Sobriety, Inc., to establish a nonprofit organization. She formalized 13 affirmations that had been helpful in
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WFS is proud to announce the start of a new virtual meeting! Chicago, IL Thursdays at 10:00 am Start Date: 2/2/2022 Please email [email protected] with questions and to obtain the Zoom link. Please join us in extending our gratitude to this Certified Facility Urban Trauma Healing Society NFP who has
WFS is proud to announce the start of a new in-person meeting! Hastings, MN Mondays at 6:30 pm Start Date: 2/6/2022 Please email [email protected] with questions and to obtain the exact location of the meeting. Please join us in extending our gratitude to this Certified Facility Rise Up Recovery who
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” Unknown “Sometimes you just have to let yourself off the hook. Forget everything you didn’t check off your to-do list, forgive yourself for any mistakes, and stop dwelling on everything you think you could
How did WFS start? In the late 1950s Jean Kirkpatrick couldn’t cope with the fact that she was the first woman to receive the Fels Fellowship award at the University of Pennsylvania, so she went out and got drunk. Fearing that a mistake had been made and the funds to
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.” Karen Kaiser Clark “When someone comes looking for the old you, pulling triggers, but cannot find you, that’s healing.” Unknown “Everything good that has ever happened in your life happened because something changed. So don’t be so fearful of change, ok?” Karen
