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Swift Steps: the Recovery & Healing Community for Swifties

Swift Steps is a peer-led recovery + mental health program + community for Swifties. Support without pressure. All pathways welcome. You can share or just listen.

Start free and sit with us at swiftsteps.org With a history deeply rooted in addiction, I am a testament to the resilient spirit of recovery. Growing up amidst alcoholism, drug addiction, mental health challenges and domestic abuse, I bore the scars of those traumas. And even as I tried to distance myself from the legacy of my upbringing, addiction found me in numerous forms: from food to shopping

, from relationships to substances. My journey to recovery wasn’t linear. I struggled with relapses, leaned on maintenance medications, attended 12-step meetings, intensive outpatient programs and used various harm reduction tools. I was convinced that formal treatment wasn’t for me but what I truly needed was genuine human connection. It was only when I surrounded myself with compassionate individuals who truly understood my struggles that I was able to shed the weight of shame and grow beyond my challenges. Today, as a recovery mentor and advocate, I bring this profound intimate understanding to help others navigate their own paths. Let me be your guiding hand, sharing both my missteps and successes, to light your journey towards a fulfilling life in recovery.

06/24/2026

Big shout out to my newest top fans! Windisch Eileen Sarah

06/23/2026

Speak Now: Tonight we are so glad to welcome Nathan Hultstrom to the Swift Steps® stage! Nathan took his last drink in April of 2022, and in his own words, the four years since have been the best of his life. He works as a recovery coach and he brings a real passion for this work and a deep love for the people walking the path alongside him.

Nathan is a proud member of and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and he works tirelessly to make recovery spaces more inclusive, because everyone deserves a room where they belong. His approach is holistic and well-rounded, with a strong focus on mental health, the whole person, not just the substance.

And here is the part that fits right into who we are. His favorite Taylor Swift song is "Karma." To Nathan, it is a reminder that a life lived with love and positivity does not have to carry the same consequences as the life he used to live. Karma is the breeze in his hair on the weekend, and we cannot wait to hear what that looks like for him!

Speak Now Tuesdays is our FREE weekly speaker series. Open to anyone, wherever you are in your story. all pathways welcome. no cost, no pressure, no perfect words required. come listen. take what helps. leave the rest. just come curious.

You don’t have to be sober. You don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t even have to talk. Just show up. Cameras optional. Listening counts.

Link in bio to grab the Zoom info and join us.

Bring a friend. Bring your story. Bring nothing at all and just listen. Whatever you’ve got, just come curious. 💜

🗓️ Tuesday, 8 pm
💜 Free to join
🔗 DM us "speak now" and we'll send you the link!

www.swiftsteps.org

06/21/2026

Here's a soft little something for the hard days.

My office is a bed. I run our recovery meetings from under a blanket, most of us come in our comfiest clothes, on our couches, at home. Because so much of healing is learning to be gentle with yourself instead of toughing it out. Comfort isn't a nice-to-have around here. It's part of how we get better!

So every month we're giving a cozy suit to someone in our community!

Here's how to enter:
Every Speak Now meeting you attend is an entry. Bring someone with you and that's another entry, the best one honestly, because the whole point is filling the room. Drop a comment below and that counts too. Also, join the newsletter so we can reach you if your name comes up!
So bring your people. All of them. Come to every Speak Now meeting you can and bring a friend each time. Every friend and every meeting is one more entry with your name on it.

We pull one name a month! And if you've been thinking about going all in with us, here's a little nudge. Join for 6 or 12 months and a suit is yours as a welcome gift, no drawing needed. The same goes if you sponsor a year for someone who can't swing it themselves. That kindness gets a suit too. While supplies last.

This drawing isn't sponsored or run by Meta. Taylor Swift or Comfrt.

06/21/2026

Here's a soft little something for the hard days.

My office is a bed. I run our recovery meetings from under a blanket, most of us come in our comfiest clothes, on our couches, at home. Because so much of healing is learning to be gentle with yourself instead of toughing it out. Comfort isn't a nice-to-have around here. It's part of how we get better!

So every month we're giving a cozy suit to someone in our community!

Here's how to enter:
Every Speak Now meeting you attend is an entry. Bring someone with you and that's another entry, the best one honestly, because the whole point is filling the room. Drop a comment below and that counts too. Also, join the newsletter so we can reach you if your name comes up!

So bring your people. All of them. Come to every Speak Now meeting you can and bring a friend each time. Every friend and every meeting is one more entry with your name on it.

We pull one name a month! And if you've been thinking about going all in with us, here's a little nudge. Join for 6 or 12 months and a suit is yours as a welcome gift, no drawing needed. The same goes if you sponsor a year for someone who can't swing it themselves. That kindness gets a suit too. While supplies last.

This drawing isn't sponsored or run by Meta. Taylor Swift or Comfrt.

06/21/2026

He was failed by a system that put him in a box, labeled his pain a personal failing, and gave him one narrow path to recovery then blamed him when he couldn’t walk it perfectly. One way. One shot. No room for nuance. No room for him.

The same systems that failed him failed me too.

But I challenged them just like I challenge everything else in my life. I stopped trying to earn my healing by pretending to be okay. I stopped silencing the parts of myself that didn’t fit the mold. I dropped the shame. I stayed.

And if I’m honest, I didn’t start this work in his honor. I started it for me because I had to. Because I needed something different. But once I found a way that made space for all of me, I wanted to offer that to others too.

Now I help people who’ve been told they’re too much, not enough, or doing it wrong. I meet people where they are because that shouldn’t be radical. It should be the bare minimum.

I do this for me.

Now I do it for all of us.

And on days like today, I carry him with me.

I hope he’s watching.

And I hope he’s proud of his little girl.

🤍 Happy Father’s Day, Dad. 🤍

www.swiftsteps.org

06/21/2026

Speak Now: This Tuesday we are so glad to welcome Nathan Hultstrom to the Swift Steps® stage! Nathan took his last drink in April of 2022, and in his own words, the four years since have been the best of his life. He works as a recovery coach and he brings a real passion for this work and a deep love for the people walking the path alongside him.

Nathan is a proud member of and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and he works tirelessly to make recovery spaces more inclusive, because everyone deserves a room where they belong. His approach is holistic and well-rounded, with a strong focus on mental health, the whole person, not just the substance.

And here is the part that fits right into who we are. His favorite Taylor Swift song is "Karma." To Nathan, it is a reminder that a life lived with love and positivity does not have to carry the same consequences as the life he used to live. Karma is the breeze in his hair on the weekend, and we cannot wait to hear what that looks like for him!

Speak Now Tuesdays is our FREE weekly speaker series. Open to anyone, wherever you are in your story. all pathways welcome. no cost, no pressure, no perfect words required. come listen. take what helps. leave the rest. just come curious.

You don’t have to be sober. You don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t even have to talk. Just show up. Cameras optional. Listening counts.

Link in bio to grab the Zoom info and join us.

Bring a friend. Bring your story. Bring nothing at all and just listen. Whatever you’ve got, just come curious. 💜

🗓️ Tuesday, 8 pm
💜 Free to join
🔗 DM us "speak now" and we'll send you the link!

www.swiftsteps.org

06/17/2026

A tale of two crowds.

We went to see Machine Gun Kelly in Scranton last weekend. And the crowd was a wall.

Let me be fair right out of the gate. The man puts on an incredible show! The lights, the sound, the energy coming off that stage. He pours his whole heart into it.

And so do I. Every room I walk into, I walk in with my whole heart out and my hands full, ready to give. He does it from the stage. I do it from the floor.

So we showed up the way we always do. Glow sticks, lollipops, water, mints, business cards. All of it free, all of it to give away.

But the crowd had other plans.

It started before the music even did. We bought fast pass and nobody could tell us where fast pass actually was. Line to line to line. Four times. Every turnaround shoved the people who'd been up front to the back and you can guess what that does to a room. Anger. Confusion. Fights breaking out around us before a single song.

I kept trying to do the thing I always do. Catch an eye. Smile. Offer a glow stick. Start the little spark that turns a crowd of strangers into a crowd of new friends.

And I got nothing back. Not cruel exactly. More like a closed door. Like we'd wandered into a party we weren't invited to and everyone could feel it.

And then it turned. I got pulled from the barricade to go up for "Bloody Valentine." They ran us backstage, then told us it was too late and literally pushed us off stage. Fighting my way back through hundreds of people, a girl accosted me. I stood in a crowd of hundreds, hands full of things to give and never felt more shut out.

And here's the thing. I have felt the exact opposite. I have stood in a crowd of thousands and felt like I was home.

The Eras Tour was the night that inspired this whole idea. Strangers traded bracelets like currency. People I'd never met hugged me like we'd known each other for years. Someone shared their water. Someone held my spot. Someone started crying and three of us who didn't know each other reached for her at the same time. The door was always open. You didn't have to earn your way in. You just had to show up.

Shaken and shoved and on the outside of something I couldn't get into, I didn't get bitter. I got clear. This is why I built Swift Steps.

Belonging is not automatic. It doesn't just happen because a bunch of people love the same thing. You have to build it on purpose. You have to decide, out loud and over and over, that the door stays open. You don't have to be sober. You don't have to be far along. You don't have to be sure of anything. You just have to come.

I built a room where the Eras Tour feeling is the rule, not the accident. Where a stranger gets a bracelet, not a wall. Where if you're getting pushed around, three people you've never met reach for you at the same time. Where compassion is the method and nobody has to prove they belong.

That crowd did me a favor. It reminded me what it feels like to be on the outside looking in. And it reminded me that I never want a single person walking into Swift Steps to feel the way I felt that night.

So if you've ever stood in a crowd and felt invisible. If you've ever wanted a room and couldn't find the door. The door is open. It has been open. It will stay open.

Just come curious.

The door's at swiftsteps.org.

Julianne Griffin
Swift Steps: the Recovery & Healing Community for Swifties

06/17/2026

Stop scrolling. This is not a drill! 🤍

Laura McKowen is coming to speak at our Speak Now meeting!

Yes. That Laura. Push Off From Here, Laura. The book we read together at our inaugural book club. We quote it in meetings. We send it to each other. And now the woman who wrote it is walking into our room.

You can't go back. You can't stay here. So you push off from here. And now we get to do it with her!

We want you in the room for this one.
But here's the deal: the zoom link is not public.
To get it, you have to be on the mailing list.
So get on the list and check your emails!

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Speak Now · 7.14.26 · 8:00 PM EST

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