Episode 12: “Recovery Doesn't Happen by Accident” Featuring Patty McCarthy
Patty McCarthy entered recovery in 1989.
Over the decades that followed, she helped transform recovery from something people spoke about quietly into a national movement.
Her story reminds us that recovery doesn't happen in isolation.
It depends on access to housing, transportation, childcare, employment, peer support, healthcare and community.
Behind every successful recovery story is a network of supports that helped make it possible.
Patty has spent her career building those networks for others.
Hope alone is not enough. Recovery requires infrastructure.
Faces & Voices of Recovery
Faces & Voices of Recovery is the nation's leading recovery advocacy organization.
Through training, certification, advocacy, and support for recovery community organizations, Faces & Voices works to ensure that people in recovery have access to the resources, representation and support necessary to thrive.
About Brave Recovery: The Women Impacted
Twelve women. Twelve stories. One challenge to everything we think we know about addiction, recovery, prevention, grief and hope.
From mothers and advocates to researchers, journalists, counselors, authors and community leaders, each woman featured in Brave Recovery: The Women Impacted reveals a deeper truth: recovery is not simply about individual choices. It is about whether families, communities and systems create the conditions that allow people to heal.
These stories are not only about survival.
They are about what becomes possible when people are seen, supported and given the opportunity to reclaim their futures.