A Membership CommunityThe Recovering Human
A community for anyone tired of being treated as a resource and a consumer instead of a person. This is where we recover our humanity and change our systems—together.
YOU BELONG HERE IF…
You believed in the American Dream and followed the roadmap, but don't feel the fulfillment or see the rewards you were promised.
You’e been treated as replaceable, then told to be grateful for your job.
You spend nights and weekends playing catch-up, ruminating on workplace politics, and coping with the stress of it all.
You've read the self-help books and used your company's wellness benefits, but you still feel burnt out.
You lost a job, or can't find one, and keep being told it's on you.
You work more every year and still fall further behind.
You started something of your own to get free of it, and found the same pressures waiting.
You see your co-workers struggling and feel complicit in something you can't name.
You want to make a difference on social and political issues, but have nothing left to give outside of work.
You feel disconnected from yourself and from other people.
It’s not just you feeling this way and none of it is a personal failing. It’s what the system was built to produce.
what this is
This is a community made up of people who are tired of being seen only as resources or consumers by our social, political, and economic systems. We meet every week on Zoom to:
Name what we’re going through honestly
Support each other
Find ways to feel grounded and move beyond just surviving
Build the knowledge and capacity to change the system
A true safe space.
Shared values. Anti-racist, feminist, class-conscious, and willing to challenge the status quo. No exceptions.
Anonymous. Real name or alias, camera on or off, your call. The expectation is that no one shares who is part of this.
Confidential. What is said in meetings stays there. No recordings or AI transcription allowed.
No corporate interests or sponsors. Nobody is paying to shape what gets said.
No recruiting or selling. Members are not prospects, resources, or consumers in this space.
The community membership
$20 a month
Meets: Every other Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET (starting Wednesday, Oct. 14)
Location: Zoom
Length: 60 minutes
Who’s There: Up to 100 people, whoever comes that week
Agenda: A safe-space discussion: ground rules first, then a topic, then honest sharing. Talk or just listen, your call.
Sharing: First come, first served
After Meetings: Optional 30-minute parking lot
Between Meetings: Optional phone list
Big Topics: A quarterly workshop, one topic in depth. Regular meetings are sharing and listening.
Interested, but the times don’t fit your schedule? Tell me what works. More questions? Review the FAQ.
Hi, I’m Rebecca Grey.
I'm a community builder and writer.
I spent years leading culture, social impact, and DEI work in corporate America while also focusing on individual healing and self-help in my personal time. The work in both realms felt incomplete. I wanted to bridge individual development and collective change, inspired by what I had learned in recovery from alcoholism: honesty, willingness, courage, discipline, community, and service—a lifelong practice, not a quick fix.
I soon learned this wasn't even remotely new. Voices like bell hooks and Grace Lee Boggs had been advocating for political action that bridged the individual, collective, and system for years. But in our culture, we're inundated with thought leadership that translates everything through a lens of value and capital. Ideas that support personal and organizational optimization, efficiency, and endless growth, rather than acknowledging hard truths. Following those modern ideas drove me to enable the very system I thought I was trying to change.
Now, I hope to do something different. For years I've hosted safe-space conversations, built communities, and driven change, but that work could only go so far inside corporate settings. I want to take it further: to learn from and build on the visions of activists who came before us, and to share this knowledge with others who are disillusioned with our systems and searching for answers.
Many people are struggling right now. And despite our differences, most people can relate to economic exploitation. We’re being treated as consumers and resources rather than people. The Recovering Human is about breaking down the barriers separating us, so we can recover ourselves and build a community that will imagine and create new systems. Systems that prioritize life over profit.