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This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

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Moscow’s ArtWalk was a blast, and what a turnout at The Center.  Over 800 people came in to see the wonderful work done by FLOWERS! by Roxanne.  If you missed it, I’ve attached a panoramic picture.  We’ll have the real McCoy up all summer.

The latest in our Write for You groups writing exercises is available here, thanks to Nancy Casey:  https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2017/06/19/write-for-you-boxes-and-bridges/

Wonder what a Recovery oriented system of care looks like and how we fit in-take a look. at the attached picture  How’s Moscow doing?

Here’s our calendar!

June at the Latah Recovery Center

Alcoholics Anonymous                                                                                      Every day, noon

Positive Affirmations                                                                                          Mondays and Weds 1:10-2

Recovery Peer Volunteer Training Pts 1 AND 2                                            Monday June 5 and 12, 5-9 RSVP June 2

Make Your Hobby Pay                                                                                      1st Monday of month, 6-7pm

Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr)                                                              Tuesdays 12:30-1:30

Come in and Talk to a Financial Coach                                                         Tuesday June 13, 2-3

Knitting and Spinning                                                                                         1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 2-4

Life Skills                                                                                                              Tuesdays 5-6

Chess w/Steve                                                                                                      Tues and Thurs 5-6

Narcotics Anonymous                                                                                        Tuesdays and Fridays 5:30-6:30

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

Parenting Support Group                                                                                   Wednesday 6:30-7:30

Get It Written (Writing Group)                                                                          Thursdays 11-12 AND 6-7

Write For You                                                                                                       Thursdays 3-4

New Volunteer Orientation                                                                                Thursdays 4-5

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

Bingo                                                                                                                     Sat. June 24, 4-8

AA Speakers Meeting                                                                                         3rd Sat of month 11-2:30

Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind                                                    4th Sat of month, 10-12

Orphan Acres Tour                                                                                              June 11, Sunday meet@LRC 12:30pm

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: Boxes and Bridges

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

by Nancy Casey

Write a sentence.  Any sentence at all.  Ten words or so. A sentence from your life, your week or your imagination.  Maybe you’d prefer to pluck a sentence from something you wrote earlier. Or something that you heard, or read, or just plain made up.  The only requirement is that the sentence is interesting to you somehow.  Write it anywhere on the page.

Draw a box around your sentence.

Pick out an interesting word or little group of words from your sentence.  Draw a box around that.

Here’s the tricky part.  You must draw a line that leads from the little box around your word all the way out into somewhere in the big blank space on the paper. As soon as you start drawing that line, though, it is going to bump into the edge of the bigger box that you drew around the whole sentence.  Don’t bump that line, hop over it.  To do that, you must draw your line like a little bridge.  Make it into a little underpass.  Or an overpass.

This might make more sense if you look at an example.  Think of it as though the word in the little box is escaping from the sentence in the big box.

For the next step, you will write a sentence that uses the “escaped word” somewhere in the big white space on the page.  Draw a box (or a circle) around the new sentence.  Think about it and find a word or phrase that wants to escape from the new sentence.  Draw a box (or some kind of shape) around that. Then draw the line (or road) that leads it out of the box.  But don’t forget to make a little bump, some kind of a bridge that hops over the edge of the bigger box.

And then just keep on going.  You don’t have to do everything in perfect order.  Sometimes two different words will want to escape from the box by two different routes.  All you have to do is keep pulling words out of the sentences in the big boxes and use them to write new sentences for new boxes

It won’t be long before you have filled up the whole page.

 Don’t forget to mark the date and give your page a title. 

Nancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays.  Check the calendar for classes and times.  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.

 

 

Write for You: Whatever You Want

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

by Nancy Casey

Make a list of everything that you want.  Make you list as long as you can.  Go for quantity, not quality.  Leave a little bit of space between each thing you write down.

Don’t skimp.  You don’t have to figure out how to get the things on your list.  They don’t even have to be possible.  You only have to want them.  For at least as long as it takes to write them down.

Do you want to be taller, smaller, healthier, more relaxed, or less allergic to pine pollen? Do you want to be able to dance the rhumba, use Excel, walk to a mountaintop, or fly?  Do you want breakfast, a skateboard, new shoes or grandchildren? What do you want to change?  What do you want to stay the same?

After each item on your list, write the word “because.”  Then explain why you want what you want.  You don’t need a “good” reason, just a reason.  Nobody needs to read this except you.

We get a lot of messages telling us we want the wrong things.  We’re not supposed to want things that are bad for our health or that help destroy the planet.  We’re warned to be “realistic” about our wants, lest we end up disappointed, or worse.  And of course we’re not supposed to want things that have a negative effect on other people.

These messages are wrong.  We want what we want.  The only thing that’s truly silly to want is to want to want something you don’t want.

Our wants come from our deepest self, not from our logical mind.  By the time they do arrive in our logical mind and we turn them into language, they are already pretty scrambled.  If we reject those scrambled ideas out of hand, those wants just keep rumbling beneath the surface like bad digestion, trying to create opportunities to snag our attention.

By paying attention to what we want, we understand who we are.  Our wants and desires are like a navigation system.  We lean in their direction the way a plant leans towards the light. 

A thousand scrambled and contradictory wants will make our actions scrambled and contradictory.  But the want-generator inside our self doesn’t care, it just wants.  When we get what we want, it wants something else.  When we don’t get what we want, it either forgets or turns up the juice and wants it even more.

In other words, we can’t control our wants, we can only try to make sense of them.  The wants come from our deep self.  The sense comes from our logical minds.  The self doesn’t obey orders to want or not-want, but it does notice what the logical mind concludes. The self also strives for harmony, so when the logical mind notices contradictions or impossibilities, the self takes note, even when it pretends not to.

That’s where the list comes in.  Go ahead, let your self want its heart out.  Cut loose and have a veritable want-a-thon.  Be serious.  Be unrealistic.  Be ridiculous.  Make the list every day for a week.  “Today I want…, because…” Write that sentence over and over and enjoy what comes up.  All those wants are in there, and the simple act of writing them down can help you get better acquainted with the true you that’s inside of you.

You won’t end up wanting fewer things, or “better” things, but you will achieve more and more clarity about which wants to chuckle over and which ones to act upon.

 

ßNancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays.  Check the calendar for classes and times.  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.

 

 

Write for You: The Color of a Color

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Write for You Blog

by Nancy Casey

For this week’s exercise, you are going to need at least two pages, so as you gather your writing materials and organize your desk for your writing practice, keep that in mind.

Set one of the pages aside, and on the other, draw two long lines so that the page is divided into three columns.  In the first column, make a list of objects that you have noticed in your life.  Skip a couple of spaces after each one.  You can choose things that are right in front of you at this moment, or objects that you saw at some time in the past, as long as you can still see them clearly with your “mind’s eye.”

Be as specific as you can in naming the objects.  For instance, don’t write “furniture” if you can write “favorite chair.”  Don’t just write “clothes” when you can say “pants I got at the Goodwill on sale for a dollar.”

When you have a dozen or so items spread down the page in the first column, fill in the second column by writing down what color each of the objects is.

The third column in the tricky one.  In that column, name a different object that is the exact same color as the object written in the first column.

Imagine that you wrote “my cereal bowl” in the first column, and in the second column you recorded the fact that it is blue.  For the third column, don’t just write down the name of any old blue thing.  It must be a blue thing whose blue is the exact same blue as the cereal bowl.  You might have to look for it.

I actually found this quite difficult to do.  It took me a long time (two days!) to fill in the third column.  At first I thought it wasn’t going to be possible. Then, gradually, I started noticing or remembering other objects whose colors matched the color of the items in the first column. So if filling in the third column seems hard at first, give yourself some time, take a walk or do a chore, all the while scanning the colors of things for the “match” that you need.  Don’t give up!

When you have filled all three columns, set the page someplace where it is easy to see, and take up a new sheet.  Using what you wrote on the first page as “notes,” write a story or describe a scene with some or all of the objects in it.  Every time you mention something from your lists, show what color it is, not by naming the color, but by saying what other thing is the same color.

What you write can be completely true, completely made up, or a mixture of both. It might come out a little goofy, but it will be interesting, too.  It will be colorful without mentioning a single color!  Here’s an example of what you could write.

Be sure to write the date on your pages and to give them titles.  A title or heading for each column will help you remember what you were trying to do when you look at this page later.

Keep this exercise in mind as you go throughout your week.  Look for matching colors around you.  Keep adding to your list of things that are the same color when you get a chance.  Write another story or add to the one you started.

Are some colors harder to find than others?  Are there colors that are repeated over and over everywhere?

 

Nancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays.  Check the calendar for classes and times.  All are welcome.  Nancy also 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.

 

This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Uncategorized

Three Special Features are happening this week:

6/5  Recovery Peer Volunteer Training pt 1, 5-9pm.   If you want to help coach people in recovery from mental health and addiction issues, you need to take this training!

6/8  Latah Alliance on Mental Illness:  Family Support, 7-8:30

6/11  Orphan Acres tour.  Meet at LRC at 12:30.

The latest podcast from Recovery Radio can now be found on I-Tunes and Googleplay.

See attached for info about the upcoming Peer Connections Conference.

We are part of ArtWalk!

Roxanne Bohman, a native to Latah County, focuses on using shape, line, color and perception to create work with her intuition as her guide for the inspiration of design ideas. Roxanne likes combining art with words, plants and abstract painting. Art is important, but her passion is to design.

After 30 years of schooling, she has received degrees in Fitness, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, and a Master’s in Business Management. Roxanne was a past participant at the Art on the Green in Coeur d’Alene with her abstract, leather handbags. Currently, Roxanne’s design skills our being utilized at her floral shop “Flowers! By Roxanne” located on the Pullman Highway in Moscow, Idaho

Roxanne’s goal in her Life and Line Artwalk display is meant to express on how an individual may feel at different times in life, allowing others to understand through abstract line.

Here’s the June Calendar:

June at the Latah Recovery Center

Alcoholics Anonymous                                                                                      Every day, noon

Positive Affirmations                                                                                          Mondays and Weds 1:10-2

Recovery Peer Volunteer Training Pts 1 AND 2                                            Monday June 5 and 12, 5-9 RSVP June 2

Make Your Hobby Pay                                                                                      1st Monday of month, 6-7pm

Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr)                                                              Tuesdays 12:30-1:30

Come in and Talk to a Financial Coach                                                         Tuesday June 13, 2-3

Knitting and Spinning                                                                                         1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 2-4

Life Skills                                                                                                              Tuesdays 5-6

Chess w/Steve                                                                                                      Tues and Thurs 5-6

Narcotics Anonymous                                                                                        Tuesdays and Fridays 5:30-6:30

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

Parenting Support Group                                                                                   Wednesday 6:30-7:30

Get It Written (Writing Group)                                                                          Thursdays 11-12 AND 6-7

Write For You                                                                                                       Thursdays 3-4

New Volunteer Orientation                                                                                Thursdays 4-5

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

Bingo                                                                                                                     Sat. June 24, 4-8

AA Speakers Meeting                                                                                         3rd Sat of month 11-2:30

Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind                                                    4th Sat of month, 10-12

Orphan Acres Tour                                                                                              June 11, Sunday meet@LRC 12:30pm

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!

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This Week at the Latah Recovery Center

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Uncategorized

Lots of things going on-so a long Monday announcement.  NOTE:  Attached is our June calendar.  Please print and distribute!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR June Special Offerings:

  • Recovery Peer Volunteer Training (Please RSVP by June 2) June 5 AND 12, 5-9pm
  • Come in and Talk to a Financial Coach June 13, 2-3
  • Art w/Alex Tuesdays, 7-8pm
  • Bingo June 24, 4-8
  • Orphan Acres Tour June 11, meet at LRC 12:30pm

Latest edition of our Write for You blog:  https://latahrecoverycenter.org/2017/05/30/write-for-you-an-article-of-clothing/?preview_id=657&preview_nonce=e175cfc9fa

The Dynamics of Drugs and Opioid Trends, a presentation by Germaine Galloway is coming 12/17.  See attached flyer.

FISHING Trip!

Hi Friends, we are planning a fishing trip on Saturday, June 10th @5:00-11:00am.

Idaho’s Free Fishing Day is an annual event held the second Saturday every June. All anglers, residents and nonresidents, can celebrate the day by fishing Idaho’s waters without a license.

If you’ve never been fishing, Free Fishing Day is also a great day to learn. Fish and Game personnel and volunteers set up several free events at local fishing waters throughout the state to help first-timers discover the joys of fishing.

There are a limited number of loaner rods and reels available to practice with but if you have your own equipment you are encouraged to bring it.

All other fishing rules and regulations including creel limits, opening dates and tackle restrictions remain in effect. Always check the seasons and rules for the water where you plan to go fishing.

We will meet at the Spring Valley Reservoir which is about 20 miles from Moscow. Check for more information at Free Fishing Day – June 10, 2017

Free Fishing Day – June 10, 2017

| Idaho’s Free Fishing Day is an annual event held the second Saturday every June.

We need to plan this fun time early because there is a memorial service in which some would like to attend the same day. Please let me know if you are interested.

Sorry, no transportation is provided.

Your peer,

Sharlisa

Mental Health First Aid is coming in July!  Just got this from UI…

Hello,

 

Vandal Health Ed is excited to offer a community Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on July 12th and 13th, 2017. This two-part certification course will take place from 3:00-7:00pm each day in the Student Rec Center (SRC) Classroom. The cost is $25 per registrant, and dinner will be provided.

 

All participants will need to register online on or before July 6th by following the instructions below:

 

1) Visit Uidaho marketplace by clicking on the following link: https://marketplace.uidaho.edu/C20272_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=2723

2) Click ‘add to cart’

3) Enter registrants name and click ‘continue’

4) Follow prompts for checkout and enter payment. Debit/Credit cards accepted. Please use a valid email address.

 

Participants will receive a generic email receipt confirming their registration. As the date gets closer, all registrants will receive an email reminding them of the dates/times of training, as well as location. Parking on campus is free (no permit required) for the summer in all blue, red, silver, and purple lots.

 

Please feel free to promote and share across the community!

 

June at the Latah Recovery Center

Alcoholics Anonymous                                                                                      Every day, noon

Positive Affirmations                                                                                          Mondays and Weds 1:10-2

Recovery Peer Volunteer Training Pts 1 AND 2                                            Monday June 5 and 12, 5-9 RSVP June 2

Make Your Hobby Pay                                                                                      1st Monday of month, 6-7pm

Yoga (Hosted by Moscow Yoga Ctr)                                                              Tuesdays 12:30-1:30

Come in and Talk to a Financial Coach                                                         Tuesday June 13, 2-3

Knitting and Spinning                                                                                         1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 2-4

Life Skills                                                                                                              Tuesdays 5-6

Chess w/Steve                                                                                                      Tues and Thurs 5-6

Narcotics Anonymous                                                                                        Tuesdays and Fridays 5:30-6:30

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

Parenting Support Group                                                                                   Wednesday 6:30-7:30

Get It Written (Writing Group)                                                                          Thursdays 11-12 AND 6-7

Write For You                                                                                                       Thursdays 3-4

New Volunteer Orientation                                                                                Thursdays 4-5

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

Bingo                                                                                                                     Sat. June 24, 4-8

AA Speakers Meeting                                                                                         3rd Sat of month 11-2:30

Learn How to Crochet & Calm Your Mind                                                    4th Sat of month, 10-12

Orphan Acres Tour                                                                                              June 11, Sunday meet@LRC 12:30pm

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: An Article of Clothing

by latahrecoverycenter, posted in Uncategorized

by Nancy Casey

Today you will be writing about an article of clothing.  Something you are wearing right now.

You can consider “clothing” in broad terms.  It can be a shirt or a sock.  Or it can be glasses, nail polish, or a cane. Anything from underwear to accessories and everything in between.  As long as you are wearing it right now and plan to keep wearing it for a big chunk of the day.

It’s best to decide what article of clothing you will actually write about at the moment you begin writing, even if a pretty good idea comes to mind while you are getting your writing materials together.  You can always write about the pretty-good idea later, but even if the new idea is a great one, you probably won’t remember it later.

So pick up the pen, look down at yourself and ask, “What article of clothing should I write about?” Go with whatever answer pops into your mind. 

You will be writing about that article of clothing from three different perspectives:

1.      First tell about the article of clothing you’ve chosen.  How you came to own it, why you are wearing it, what it looks and feels like, what it reminds you of, whether or not you like it, and so forth. There are likely dozens of things you can say about it.  You are the one wearing it, so tell everything you can.

2.      Then write as though you are the article of clothing itself and tell the story of “your” life.  Describe yourself, your strengths and weaknesses, your worries and joys.  Tell your earliest memories, where you live now, how you spend your days and what you hope to get from this day.

3.      Write as though you were the article of clothing again, but this time, write as though the clothing is talking to you.  (Even if it feels weird, you can pretend this once.)  Specifically, write as though the clothing is giving you a pep talk.  The clothing will have a good day if you do, so what’s that clothing going to do help that happen?  Write it up in the form of a little speech, from the clothing to you.

When you have finished, give your work a title.  Using both a title and three subtitles could be a nice touch.  Doodles and illustrations are always appropriate.  Be sure to put the date somewhere on the page.  Here is an example of what you could write.

Try this exercise throughout the week with different articles of clothing.  You can branch out if you like and write about any one of your possessions. 

Do you have clothing or possessions that thwart you?  You can write about them, too.

Nancy Casey teaches writing classes at the Recovery Center on Thursdays.  Check the calendar for classes and times.  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.