Help save Recovery Radio!
Nancy Casey, who has been coordinating our Recovery Radio program will not be available in the coming months. Meet with us on Thursday September 28 at 11AM to discuss what it will take to keep the radio program going. No experience needed, just a desire to keep information about recovery on the air and to hear the voices of people at every stage of recovery. If you can’t come to the meeting, please leave your contact info at the Recovery Center
Interview with Drug Court participants Denise, Jamie and Rhiana.
Here are links to two writing exercises from Nancy Casey, leader of our Write for You writing group.
Rumor Control: I heard a rumor the LRC is telling people that our Recovery Peer Volunteers are the equivalent of a Recovery Coach. We are not. Becoming a certified Recovery Coach requires over 50 hours of training, additional testing, and 100s of hours of interning. Certified RCs may or may not have lived experience. In Idaho a certified Recovery Coach occupies a paraprofessional position: While they may choose to volunteer, certified RCs are eligible for reimbursement of about $15/hr by the state.
Recovery Peer Volunteer is strictly a term used by the LRC. Our Recovery Peer Volunteers are required to have lived experience, take our 6 hour Recovery Peer Volunteer Training, pass our Board of Review, and have at least 6 hours of interning. RP volunteers work under the guidance of our trained Recovery Coaches. RP volunteers are not eligible for pay. Despite this, our RP volunteers are strongly encouraged to attend the full Recovery Coach training to enhance their skills.
Clearly, these are not equivalent positions.
BACK TO THE IMPORTANT STUFF-Special this week:
9/20, 7pm Intro to Recovery International: Dr. Lowe’s Mental Health Self Help System
9/21, 1pm Helping Without Hurting in You Role as a Recovery Coach (webinar)
9/23, 4-9pm, Latah County Fairgrounds, Latah Recovery Festival: Recovery Out Loud. Chili Cook-Off (contact us for instructions), inspirational recovery stories, keynote address by Police Chief Fry, music by Jim Boland and the Intentions. BE THERE!!!
Please consider posting the attached flyer in your office, car, home, etc.
Here is the full September schedule.
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!
by Nancy Casey
I’m writing this on a chilly, gray day. It’s pouring rain outside. That’s interesting, almost thrilling, because it’s been blisteringly hot here and it hasn’t rained like this for months. It’s the kind of day you can’t help but think about the changing season.
The season changes without any input from us. It never comes as much of a surprise. You can like it or not like it, but you can’t encourage it to arrive faster or tell it to wait. Ready or not. A new season. It’s yours.
To write about a changing season, have at least 2 pages handy. On one of them, draw a line lengthwise down the middle, and then draw another line across the middle of the page so that the page is divided into four boxes.
The left side of the page will be for the season that is coming on, and the right side of the page will be for the season that is giving way.
In the upper left box, write down all the things that you look forward to in the coming season.
To the right, in the upper right box, write down all the things that you will miss about the season that is almost gone.
Down in the lower left box, write down what you dread about the season to come.
In the remaining box, on the lower right, write down things that you are glad to see go away with the old season.
Fill up all the space on the page. Add illustrations as needed.
On the second page, write about a changing season makes you think of. What marks the change most for you? How are the changes about more than the weather? How do the changes affect your attitude?
Some people talk about life in terms of seasons, such as childhood, youth, and middle age. Careers and relationships can have seasons, too. There is a lot to say about seasons: how they change from one to the next, what we notice, and how it affects us.
Whatever you write, give both pages a title, and write the date on them, too. 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.
by Nancy Casey
Nobody remembers everything.
Today you will write down some of the many things you have forgotten. As you write about them, one by one, begin each one with “I forgot…”
Sometimes we forget things momentarily, like somebody’s name or that there is road construction on your usual route about town. Everybody probably wishes they didn’t forget things in that infuriating way, where you find yourself upstairs, not knowing what you came up there for, but sure enough, you remember as soon as you go back downstairs, so then you have to go up again. What information has escaped unexpectedly from your mind lately?
Some things are probably forgotten for good, like the names of every single one of your parents’ friends and the type of coat they wore in the winter time. Everybody has memories of past events, both desirable and undesirable, that are unforgettably vivid. Even so, there will be things you must have known at the time, though they are lost and forgotten, now. The color of somebody’s shoes, perhaps, or whether your fingernails were clean or dirty that day. Was it sunny out or cloudy. What did you once know that you certain you will never remember?
Sometimes temporary forgetting can lead to permanent remembering. Do you have an odd fact stuck in your brain forever because you forgot it on the day of a test?
Songs have a tendency to sing themselves over and over in our heads. Sometimes we wish we could forget them! But is it the whole song that rings again and again, or just a line or two? You’ve certainly heard the whole song before. What parts must you make an effort to remember?
Occasionally, forgetting can bring on a cascade of problems. If you forget your wallet, for instance, or a very important password. It’s bad news when you forget to bring your library books in out of the rain. It can be even worse news if you forget you left a laundry basket in the middle of the floor and you trip on it in the dark. What have you forgotten that has changed your life?
Do you remember everything that’s in your refrigerator, and exactly where each item is located? Could you have forgotten about some of the things that are in your closet? What about your license plate number or the number on line 37 of your taxes in 2009?
We forget so many things. And remember a lot of them again later. Only to forget them again. All the while new things keep happening, which we either remember or forget. Have you ever forgotten anything on purpose?
Write about what you have forgotten, beginning each time with the phrase, “I forgot…” Here is an example of what you might write. Give your work a title when you are finished, and write the date on it, too.
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.
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!
Latah Recovery Community Center, Inc. 