Morgan Lea Baine

Hundreds in Nashville's substance abuse recovery community are grieving the sudden death of 32-year-old Morgan Baine, who helped launch treatment programs and advocated for women facing addiction for the last five years.

Morgan Lea Baine — program director for nonprofit Healing Housing residential recovery for women and owner of her own 10-bed women's sober living house — died Aug. 12 at her home. Friends and colleagues said her passion to serve women healing from active addiction stemmed in part from finding recovery herself in a sober living house.

“She loved big, and she believed in the women of Healing Housing with everything she had," said Brooke Stephens, a coworker and friend. "She spoke truth with compassion, always urging us to see our own strength, even when we could not see it ourselves. Her kindness, wisdom, and fierce belief in our worth will forever be part of our home and our hearts.”

A one-time student of Franklin High School in Franklin, Tennessee, Morgan started working at Healing Housing in 2020 as an executive assistant and was named program director there in October 2023. She opened her own sober living house, Phoenix Recovery, in December 2023.

Healing Housing executive director Tracey Levine called Morgan "the heartbeat" of the nonprofit. "Morgan leaves behind a legacy of resilience, love, and transformation that will continue to inspire all who knew her," Levine said.

Friends also knew Morgan as a rabid Nashville Predators fan who went to many home games for the past several seasons.

Morgan is survived by her 13-year-old son, James, and her fiance Logan Terry, who also works in substance abuse recovery. She and her son loved live music and "would head out to a festival at a moment's notice," her mother, Barbra Bedwell, said. As a girl, she enjoyed traveling with her grandparents and reading books under the covers after her bedtime.

Other survivors include her parents, Carl and Barbra Bedwell of College Grove, Tennessee; her brother Hunter Bedwell of Tampa, Florida; her brother David Baine of Germantown, Tennessee; her sister, Rachel Helm (John), of Eureka Springs, Arkansas; and her grandfather J. Paul Price of Germantown, Tennessee.

Visitation is set for 12:00 PM, August 15, 2025 at Brentwood United Methodist Church in Brentwood, Tennessee, with a Celebration of Life following at 1:00 PM. The family is requesting donations be made to Healing Housing online at healinghousing.org