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This Week at the Latah Recovery Center
MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR FUN AND INSPIRATION!
The second annual Latah Recovery Festival is September 23, 4-9 at the Latah County Fairgrounds. This FUN and FREE event includes:
-Chili cook-off-contact us for the rules
-Childrens booth
-Inspiring stories of recovery
-Keynote speech by Police Chief Fry on why he supports recovery
-Live music and dancing
-FUN!
Thanks to our sponsors: Optum Insurance, Gritman Medical Center, Region 2 Behavioral Health Board, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, and Recovery Idaho.
Here’s the latest Recovery Radio podcast: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2017/09/11/recovery-radio-9717/
In addition to our regular offerings on the calendar below, this weeks special is Recovery Peer Volunteer Training. Session one 6-9 tonight. Session two next Monday, 6-9pm. RSVPs were due by last Friday. But if you didn’t RSVP, we still have some room in the class. Email us if you wish to come. This training is an excellent introduction to the skills needed to coach people dealing with addictions and mental health issues.
September at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays and Weds 1:10-2
Make Your Hobby Pay 1st Monday of month, 6-7pm
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 7pm
Recovery Peer Volunteer Training (RSVP by 9/9) Monday 9/11 AND 9/18 6-9pm
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Life Skills Tuesdays 5-6
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays and Fridays 6-7
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Art w/Alex Tuesdays 7-8
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Families and Caregivers of Addicts Support Group Wednesdays 6-7
Intro to Recovery Int’l-Dr. Lowe’s Self-Help System Wednesday 9/20 OR 9/27 7-8:30
Helping Without Hurting in Your Role as a Recovery Coach Thursday, Sept. 21, 1
Get It Written (Writing Group) Thursdays 11-12 AND 6-7
Write For You Thursdays 3-4
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
Q and A about Resumes, PowerPoint and MSWord Thursday, 9/7, 6:30
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
LRC Birthday Party Friday 9/1, 11-2
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
Latah Recovery Festival: Recovery Out Loud (@Fairgrounds) Saturday, 9/23 4-9
Bingo Saturday, 9/30 4-8
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Adult Children of Alcoholics, Women’s Meeting Sundays 6-7:30
Classes and Groups are ALWAYS FREE OR AT COST AND OPEN TO ALL.
RSVP LatahRecoveryCenter@gmail.com Bolded=Regular offering. Plain text=Special offering for month.
Need an understanding person to talk to? We have Recovery Peer Volunteers here to help you in recovery from mental health and addiction issues all hours of operation. We are here to help!
Recovery Radio 9/7/17
Interview with Cindy Sale.
Attn: Parents of Children with a Serious Emotional Disturbance
Attention parents of children with a serious emotional disturbance:
Hi Jim,
I am working with the Parent Network regarding the Children’s Mental Health and the changes coming up the line due to the Jeff D. The Network is having a workshop Oct. 13 & 14, 2017 in Boise. Carol Dixon of the Idaho Federation of Families is seeking to find an additional parent from Region 2 (perferrably from the Moscow area) to working with the Parent Network. I am wondering if you can send me the e-mail addresses of the subcommittee group for CMH and/or send this information out to them.
I believe the parent interested would: need to have a child who has serious emotional disturbances and be willing to participate on a state and local level with the Parent Network. More information or anyone interested would need to contact: Carol Dixon at the Idaho Federation of Families, 1-800-905-3436 or at: cdixon@idahofederation.org .
After a very busy summer of travel, I hope to see you at this coming weeks BHB meeting. I am looking forward to the Jeff D presentation/report to be given by Teri Rainy. See you soon!
Sincerely,
Mikell S. Radon
This Week at the Latah Recovery Center
Our latest Recovery Radio blog is here: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2017/09/01/recovery-radio-83117/
Lots of people in recovery from mental health and addiction issues have a record. If you have a felony and are looking for work, we’ve updated our Felony Friendly Employer list. https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2017/08/30/updated-felony-friendly-employers-list/
If you would like an overview of the skills needed to coach someone dealing with mental health or addiction issues, Recovery Peer Volunteer Training is for you! This two part training is on Sept. 11 and 18, 6-9. Please RSVP by 9/9. Full details attached. This training is required for LRC volunteers wishing to coach.
Did you know September is National Recovery Month? Here are some special activities at the LRC:
September 8, 6-8. Vandal Town Block Party-come visit our table.
September 23, 4-9: Latah Recovery Festival: Recovery Out Loud at the fairgrounds. Live music, chili cook-off, inspiring talks about recovery, childrens games and more.
Need help with resumes, or to learn about Powerpoint or MSWord? Come to our training on 9/7, 6:30pm!
A big THANK YOU to Welcome Home Property Mgmt for some recent handyman work done at The Center!
September at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays and Weds 1:10-2
Make Your Hobby Pay 1st Monday of month, 6-7pm
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 7pm
Recovery Peer Volunteer Training (RSVP by 9/9) Monday 9/11 AND 9/18 6-9pm
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Life Skills Tuesdays 5-6
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays and Fridays 6-7
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Art w/Alex Tuesdays 7-8
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Families and Caregivers of Addicts Support Group Wednesdays 6-7
Intro to Recovery Int’l-Dr. Lowe’s Self-Help System Wednesday 9/20 OR 9/27 7-8:30
Helping Without Hurting in Your Role as a Recovery Coach Thursday, Sept. 21, 1
Get It Written (Writing Group) Thursdays 11-12 AND 6-7
Write For You Thursdays 3-4
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
Q and A about Resumes, PowerPoint and MSWord Thursday, 9/7, 6:30
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
LRC Birthday Party Friday 9/1, 11-2
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
Latah Recovery Festival: Recovery Out Loud (@Fairgrounds) Saturday, 9/23 4-9
Bingo Saturday, 9/30 4-8
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Adult Children of Alcoholics, Women’s Meeting Sundays 6-7:30
Classes and Groups are ALWAYS FREE OR AT COST AND OPEN TO ALL.
RSVP LatahRecoveryCenter@gmail.com Bolded=Regular offering. Plain text=Special offering for month.
Need an understanding person to talk to? We have Recovery Peer Volunteers here to help you in recovery from mental health and addiction issues all hours of operation. We are here to help!
Write for You: Pep Talk Voice
Write for You: Pep Talk Voice
by Nancy CaseA good pep talk puts the wind in your sails. Pep talks get you and the big boat of your life aimed in the best direction for smooth travel. Without pep talks you could be led to believe your ship might sink, or that it could be becalmed forever. With a good pep talk behind you, you keep moving forward.
We talk to ourselves in many voices, and for a good pep talk, all you have to do is give the stage to Pep Talk Voice.
Pep Talk Voice is the most stubborn and single-minded voice in the choir. It is incapable of saying anything bad about you.
If you start describing your life to yourself in terms of its failures, Pep Talk Voice gets all pumped up with applause, saying, “Look what you were up against! Did you see that!? You’ve come through this far! We can do anything now!”
If the tasks ahead of you in the next day, year or hour seem beyond your abilities, Pep Talk Voice says, “So what? You’re doing everything that’s humanly possible. Why wouldn’t that be enough? There’s a path through this.”
If you are tempted to carry on about all your faults of character, Pep Talk Voice just laughs. “You expect me to believe that???” Pep Talk Voice never doubts your worth. “You are a fine person,” says Pep Talk Voice, stating the obvious. “You are a fine person and you are doing your best. Here’s why…”
Even when you are considering the things that you’d like to change about yourself, Pep Talk Voice will still find a way to say that you are just fine the way you are. “Doing a few things differently will make you even more like yourself!” crows Pep Talk Voice, reminding you yet again how amazing you are.
Today in your writing, give your pen over to Pep Talk Voice. Just see how it goes.
Maybe your writing will come out as a dialog, where you say something and Pep Talk Voice adds what it thinks.
You could try interviewing Pep Talk Voice. Ask it questions.
You can even tease Pep Talk Voice and try to get it to say something bad about you—but it won’t. It can’t. It doesn’t know how.
Maybe Pep Talk Voice has a speech it’s been dying to give you. Give it a chance. Write down what it has to say. Pretend you are taking dictation.
As you write down the things that Pep Talk Voice has to say to you, think about what “pep” is. When you are peppy, you are alive with life. You have vim, vigor, and vitality. “Pep” isn’t something that you can wear or buy, it bubbles up from inside of you like the force of life itself.
Pep Talk Voice is the voice of the one who knows you best of all.
Put the date on your writing and be sure to give it a title. Here’s an example of what you could write.
Nancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays. Check the calendar for classes and times, or just drop in. All are welcome. She coordinates Recovery Radio, which airs on KRFP 90.3 FM in Moscow, Thursdays at 1:05 PM. Recovery Radio needs on-air and off-air volunteers. Call the Recovery Center 208-883-1045 or email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com for more information.
Recovery Radio 8/31/17
Interview with Sharon Curtis.
Celebrating National Recovery Month
See all the recovery celebrations we have going on!
Updated “Felony Friendly Employers” List
We have updated the list of Moscow area employers willing to hire people with felonies. If you have a record and are looking for employment this list might help.
Write for You: Setbacks and Calamities
by Nancy Casey
Things go wrong. They always do. Whether your plans are for this afternoon, the coming school year, or a lifetime, the chance of something going wrong is usually pretty high.
Big things and little things plop into our lives and, in a single moment, change our course. Just as the door closes, you remember your keys are inside. You get an email saying you didn’t get that job you were counting on. The phone rings with news that is so terrible, the world falls away. Ping! In a single moment, life takes a new direction. The next minutes, days, or years will no longer be the way you expected.
The worst calamities don’t transpire in a single moment. They come at you as a series of moments. A barrage of them. One bad thing after another, and you have to deal with them all.
No matter what hits you, though, you keep going. Even when you think you don’t want to. Even when it feels like you can’t. Because time only moves in one direction, and it never stops.
Today, you will write about moments in your life when the shape of the future suddenly changed for the worse. They can be moments that changed your life, or moments that changed your afternoon. They can be moments that put a glitch in your day or moments that turned you into somebody else.
The important thing is to try to focus on particular details of the moment: the color of something you saw, the shoes you had on, the words that you heard, the music in the background.
You can zig zag back and forth in time, writing down the details of bad moments you have had, mixing the ones from yesterday with others from your childhood. Or instead you could choose to list each excruciating moment of a disastrous event.
Whatever you choose to write, after you have noted down the details of one of those awful moments, you must then add the sentence, “I kept going.” Because you did. Somehow or other, whether it was easy or hard.
When you have finished with the series of moments, and recorded the fact that after each one you kept going, read back over what you have written and think about it. Write a final couple of sentences that describe your ability to keep going and what that experience feels like.
Be sure to give your work a title and include the date somewhere on the page. Here is an example of what a person could write.
Nancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays. Check the calendar for classes and times, or just drop in. All are welcome. She coordinates Recovery Radio, which airs on KRFP 90.3 FM in Moscow, Thursdays at 1:05 PM. Recovery Radio needs on-air and off-air volunteers. Call the Recovery Center 208-883-1045 or email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com for more information.
Latah Recovery Community Center, Inc. 