Women’s History Month is a month designated to celebrating women’s contributions in America. This celebration first began in Santa Rosa, California in 1978, as “Women’s History Week” in coordination with International Women’s Day on March 8th. Soon after, other communities around the United States began recognizing “Women’s History Week” annually. After the first presidential proclamation declaring Women’s History Week in 1980, annual proclamations continued until 1987, when Congress passed a law officially recognizing March as Women’s History Month. Now, every year, The National Women’s History Alliance curates and publishes a theme for the month.
This year’s theme is “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.”
Wings Recovery is proud to be a women-founded, women-owned, and women-led organization. Our wonderful women on staff work daily to ensure the atmospheres we create at our facilities foster equal opportunities for all to come and seek healing in their personal walk. We welcome and celebrate diversity and our therapists actively invite everyone to participate freely in our group programming.
As a facility that provides mental health care administered by women, for women, we are joining in the Women’s History Month celebration by recognizing some important female figures of the past, who paved the way for what we do today.
About Dr. Hilde Bruch:
Dr. Hilde Bruch, born in Germany in 1904, received her MD in 1929 and came to the United States in 1933, where she studied psychiatry and began practicing psychoanalysis. Her work led to her pioneering the study of eating disorders with a specific focus on Anorexia Nervosa. Dr. Bruch led a ground-breaking lecture in 1982 that presented her theory of psychopathology on problems like body perception, emotion processing, and interpersonal relationships as core theoretical aspects of eating disorder illnesses. Later, she provided three core targets of treatment: family relationships, patients’ inner confusion, and nutritional restoration.
It’s clear to see how her ideas have shaped the modern treatment of mental health conditions and eating disorders. We are grateful to Dr. Bruch and her research for furthering the treatment of eating disorders as medical problems.
About Dr. Mary Ainsworth:
Dr. Ainsworth earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1939. Shortly after, she researched and practiced both abroad in London and Uganda and in the U.S. at John Hopkins, and later taught at the University of Virginia. Her work was crucial in understanding mother-child bonds, other types of human attachments, and their effects on someone’s life, and has since inspired many other studies on these topics. Dr. Ainsworth’s research contributions played an important role in understanding child development. For her grand accomplishments in the field, Dr. Ainsworth was awarded the American Psychological Foundation’s Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology in 1998. We recognize Dr. Mary Ainsworth as a major player in developmental psychology.
About Dr. Karen Horney:
Dr. Karen Horney (1885-1952) has influenced a variety of psychological theory and practice. Her ideas about personality development are aligned with modern personality psychology, attachment theory, and research findings on the effects traumatic experiences have on the brain. She was best known for boldly challenging Freud’s theories on women through her published book, Feminine Psychology, and developing ideas on inner conflicts, self-analysis, and self-growth. Dr. Horney believed and promoted the idea that people can change, grow, develop, and heal from life experiences through self-reflection. In her writing, she explains, “It is not only the young child who is pliable. All of us retain the capacity to change, even to change in fundamental ways, as long as we live.” Here at Wings Recovery, we know this to be true as we have seen our patients put their minds and efforts toward healing and leave our care changed for the better.
Programs for Women, Designed by Women
The Wings Recovery Staff is led by powerful women who each possess a passion and a personal mission to guide women, transgender women, and non-binary individuals struggling with mental health conditions toward healing. Through the utilization of evidence-based therapy methods and by adjusting treatment plans to meet the needs of each individual, our expert staff meets patients where they are and guides them toward discovering a healthier and more balanced lifestyle.
Wings Recovery has specially designed gender-specific programs where women can find other women who understand what they’ve been through. We know that some past experiences are difficult to work through in the presence of men, which is why we are proud to provide a peaceful, accepting, supportive space for women to find refuge and begin the hard work of addressing the underlying trauma of their mental health conditions.
If you or someone you know are struggling with any aspect of mental health, don’t wait to seek help.
Call us at 1-888-790-9377 or contact us online with any questions or concerns you may have.
Don’t put off living life to the fullest; we can start leading you on the path towards healing today.
Wings Recovery also offers specially designed programs for men as well as military members and first responders. See our website for more details.