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This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

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Learn how to better serve children impacted by trauma, abuse and neglect: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2018/04/10/empower-to-connect-training-april-13-14/

Check out Recovery Radio Thursdays on KRFP at 1pm, or download the podcast on GooglePlay and ITunes!

The latest prompt from our Write for You writers group https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2018/04/10/the-sky-is-falling/

April at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays, 12-1
Life Skills Mondays, 5-6
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 6
Recovery Peer Volunteer Meeting Last Monday of month, 6pm
Intro to MSWord and Powerpoint Monday, April 23, 6:30pm
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Board of Directors Second Tuesday of month, 3:45-5
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 (Womens mtg)
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Positive Affirmations Wednesdays 5-6
Recovery International: Mental Health Self-Help Wednesdays, 6:30-8
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Fridays 5:30-6:30 (Open mtg)
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
AA Speakers Meeting 3rd Saturday of month, 11-2:30
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Social Activity: Appaloosa Museum Tour April 21, 11am
Recovering Parents: Trust Based Relational Intervention Parents Group Sunday 4/8, 4/22 2:30-4 4/30 6:30-7:30
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 Date=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: The Sky is Falling

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

by Nancy Casey

One of the things you can do on a rainy day is marvel at what is happening. Water, an essential substance that we can’t live without, is falling down on us from the sky. Imagine that!

Today in your writing, play around with the idea of things falling from the sky. You can write sentences that take this form:

[….What?Who?…] fell down from the sky [….And did what?…].

You might have a lot more to say about it. Were there consequences? Was there a reason?

Maybe you wish something would fall down from the sky and make some changes in the world or in your life. In that case, begin, “I wish…” and let your imagination open the sky and start dropping things. Describe the changes these things make.

Maybe you are absolutely clear about what you don’t want falling down from the sky and into your reality. Then you could write sentences in this form:

I hope […Who?What?….] doesn’t fall from the sky ….

You will probably want to add some more information to explain why this would not be a good thing.

Another way to write about what falls from the sky is to imagine all the visible and invisible things that could fall and tell what that feels like, or what it makes you think of. The poet Paul Verlaine, for example, wrote, “Tears fall in my heart like rain on the town.” What else can fall from the sky and affect the way you feel? Must rain always be sad? What could fall from the sky and make you laugh? A fly ball falling from the sky and into a baseball glove would likely make an outfielder feel quite satisfied.

Today in your writing, open up the sky to your imagination. You can give all the details of a momentous sky-drop. Or, if you prefer, you can describe many different things that will or could or won’t fall from the sky.

When you have finished, give your work a title. Make sure the date is on it somewhere, too. Add decoration and color to the page as needed. Here is an example of what a person could write.

Share what you have written! Post it as a comment below. You can type in your work. Or post a picture of it.

Nancy Casey has lived in Latah County for many years. She has taught writing classes at the Recovery Center and will return again in the spring of 2018. You can find more of her work here. If you would like her help with a writing project—resumes, letters, stories novels—email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com for more information.

This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

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First, a REALLY BIG THANK YOU! We had a great fundraiser last week, and it’s the support of our community that made it possible. 280 community leaders found out about the opiate crisis, mental health and addiction in Moscow last week. They came together to both learn and offer their support. And, boy did they support! Together we raised almost $28000! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Now back to our regular broadcast.

Check out our latest Write for You activity: https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2018/04/03/write-for-you-questions-questions/

Remember, you can always download some inspiration with our Recovery Radio podcast on both Googleplay AND ITunes! Why not check out what Denise and Jonny have been doing right now?

We have one late addition to our April calendar:
Intro to MSWord and Powerpoint on April 23, 6:30pm.

Here’s the April calendar!
April at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays, 12-1
Life Skills Mondays, 5-6
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 6
Recovery Peer Volunteer Meeting Last Monday of month, 6pm
Intro to MSWord and Powerpoint Monday, April 23, 6:30pm
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Board of Directors Second Tuesday of month, 3:45-5
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 (Womens mtg)
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Positive Affirmations Wednesdays 5-6
Recovery International: Mental Health Self-Help Wednesdays, 6:30-8
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Fridays 5:30-6:30 (Open mtg)
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
AA Speakers Meeting 3rd Saturday of month, 11-2:30
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Social Activity: Appaloosa Museum Tour April 21, 11am
Recovering Parents: Trust Based Relational Intervention Parents Group Sunday 4/8, 4/22 2:30-4 4/30 6:30-7:30
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 Date=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: Questions, questions

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

-by Nancy Casey

There is so much that we just don’t know! That’s why we ask questions. Questions probably run through your head all the time.

Today in your writing, all you will do is ask questions. Questions that you don’t know the answer to. One after another. As many as you can.

If you are asking yourself, “How can I write a page full of questions?” here are some hints to help jostle some questions out of your imagination and onto the page.

  • The question words: Who? What? When? Where? and Why? Lots of questions start with those words. You can pull any idea out of the air, and probably think up a question that begins with each of those words.
  • Don’t forget about all of the questions you can ask that begin with How? Sometimes How? gets overlooked because it doesn’t start with W.
  • What if? When you start a question like that, every possible and impossible thing in the universe is available for you to ask about.
  • Start with a thing. Pick any thing and ask some questions about it.
  • Start with a person or a place.
  • Start with an action, think about flying or laughing or sleeping and ask questions about that.

Teachers and students alike have observed that people learn best when they are learning things they have questions about.

Scientists are always asking questions. Artists ask questions all the time, too. Everyone does. Not all questions lead to answers. Every question doesn’t need an answer. The way we sort the questions that matter to us from the ones that don’t is by asking them all.

In his work Letters to a Young Poet, the writer Rainier Maria Rilke invites us to love the questions themselves. Think of them as locked rooms, he says and promises that by living you find the keys.

After you have written a zillion questions, give your work a title. Make sure the date is on it somewhere, too. Add decoration and color to the page as needed. Here is an example of what a person could write.

Share what you have written! Post it as a comment below. You can type in your work. Or post a picture of it.

Nancy Casey has lived in Latah County for many years. She has taught writing classes at the Recovery Center and will return again in the spring of 2018. You can find more of her work here. If you would like her help with a writing project—resumes, letters, stories novels—email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com for more information.

April at the Latah Recovery Center

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Uncategorized

Hard to believe, but April is upon us. Our calendar is below.

The latest from our https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2018/03/26/write-for-you-in-the-doorway/

A big Thank You to our Fundraising Breakfast Table Captains. We have a record number of reservations!!! See you all Wednesday, 7am at the Best Western.

Don’t miss CPR, tonight (Monday), 6-9pm.
And don’t forget Stewards of Children training 5:30-7:30 on 3/29.

April at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays, 12-1
Life Skills Mondays, 5-6
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 6
Recovery Peer Volunteer Meeting Last Monday of month, 6pm
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Board of Directors Second Tuesday of month, 3:45-5
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 (Womens mtg)
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Positive Affirmations Wednesdays 5-6
Recovery International: Mental Health Self-Help Wednesdays, 6:30-8
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Fridays 5:30-6:30 (Open mtg)
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
AA Speakers Meeting 3rd Saturday of month, 11-2:30
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Social Activity: Appaloosa Museum Tour April 21, 11am
Recovering Parents: Trust Based Relational Intervention Parents Group Sunday 4/8, 4/22 2:30-4 4/30 6:30-7:30
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 Date=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: In the Doorway

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

by Nancy Casey

A doorway is a powerful image. You can find them in films, songs, advertising, news reports, memes, paintings—not to mention real life. Doorways are everywhere.

Today, as you prepare your writing materials and settle in to your writing practice, imagine doorways. Doorways you have known, doorways you have stood in or passed through, doorways you have seen pictures of, doorways you can imagine, whether they are real or not. You could draw a picture of a doorway while you think about this.

Then think about the doorway with something or someone in it. It could be you or another person, a pet, an object, a plant. It can be something that’s invisible. It can be something you remember or something that you make up.

Use this fill-in-the-blank to start up your writing: “________ was in the doorway…” Then tell the rest of the story.

You can describe the doorway itself. You can describe the person or thing in the doorway. You can describe where the doorway is. You might want to tell something about the time, or the day or what else is nearby.

Don’t leave the doorway frozen in space and time like a photograph, however. Roll the camera. Tell what happened.

Doorways almost always represent some kind of transition, because they always change. Someone walks in or out. The door opens and closes. Nothing can stay in a doorway forever, because the doorway will be blocked and not be a doorway anymore. You might want to say something about the transition that takes place in your doorway story.

Maybe you will find yourself telling a single long story that begins with a certain doorway. Maybe you will end up telling several brief stories from doorways. Although each story begins with a doorway, there are many variations on how you can tell it. You can mix things that are “real” and things that are “made up” into your story however you like.

However it turns out, give your work a title. Make sure the date is on it somewhere, too. Add decoration and color to the page as needed. Here is an example of what a person could write.

You can share what you have written by posting it as a comment below. You can do that by typing or pasting text. Or you can take a picture of your page and post that.

Nancy Casey has lived in Latah County for many years. She has taught writing classes at the Recovery Center and will return again in the spring of 2018. You can find more of her work here. If you would like her help with a writing project—resumes, letters, stories novels—email latahrecoverycenter@gmail.com for more information.

This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Uncategorized

March at the Latah Recovery Center
Alcoholics Anonymous Every day, noon
Positive Affirmations Mondays, 12-1
Life Skills Mondays, 5-6
Make Your Hobby Pay 1st Monday of month, 6-7
CPR Monday, 3/26, 6-9pm
Intro to MS Word and Powerpoint Monday, 3/26, 6:30-8pm
Refuge Recovery 420 E. 2nd St Mondays, 6
Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr) Tuesdays 12:30-1:30
Chess w/Steve Tues and Thurs 5-6
Narcotics Anonymous Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 (Womens) and Fridays 5:30-6:30 (Open)
Domestic Abuse Support Group Tuesdays 6-7
Art w/Alex Tuesdays 7-8
Prescription Addiction Support Group Tuesdays 7-8
Positive Affirmations Wednesdays 5-6
Families and Caregivers of Addicts Support Group Wednesdays 6-7
Recovery International: Mental Health Self-Help Wednesdays, 6:30-8
New Volunteer Orientation Thursdays 4-5
Stewards of Children Training Thursday, March 29 5:30-7:30
LAMI: Family Support Program 2nd Thurs of month 7-8:30
All Recovery Meeting Fridays 5-6
Movie/Games: Check website for listing Fridays 6:30-9
Rotary Club of Moscow Presents The Bride of Bovill Melodrama Friday, 3/9 AND 10. See LRC for tickets. $35/person
AA Speakers Meeting 3rd Saturday of month, 11-2:30
Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind 4th Sat of month, 10-12
Social Activity: M.T. James Entomological Museum and
Ferdinands Ice Cream. Meet at Rosauers parking lot, 12pm. Sat. 3/10, 1pm
Recovering Parents: Trust Based Relational Intervention Parents Group Sunday 3/4 and 3/18, 2:30-4; 3/12 6:30-7:30
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 Date=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!