Unity Inspired

02/21/2026

We had a great pair of ladies from the Oxford house send us a fun sober snow day challenge they are having!! We love it ❄️❄️❄️❄️ Nothing better than enjoying the recovery journey.

02/08/2026

I’m not a mental health therapist. My license is in addiction and working through all the “stuff” connected to it. Self worth, shame, guilt, loss of purpose, loss of self, resentments, rebuilding relationships. This list goes on and on. Myself, and our amazing staff likes to think of ourselves as a futurist. I don’t process trauma, or treat SPMI’s. I help you understand how to move forward with it and not letting it settle in your soul as your identity. I support you in the here and now, now what, how can we move forward. Self medicating isn’t the answer it is the problem.

Working in inpatient treatment milieus over the last 22 years and sitting in all the continuous behavioral health trainings. Listening, working, and learning under some of the best behavioral health professionals tends to educate you more (in my opinion) than any classroom can. Meshed in with my own personal experiences, it has taught me why I’ve never wanted that responsibility. Labels heavily influence how we view ourselves, good, or bad, and we aren’t label makers.

The number one question I ask in group is who are you? The first answer I get is I am a “alcoholic, drug addict, bipolar, schizophrenia, failure, BPD.” Funny how I rarely hear “Father, mother, son, loving, caring, funny, driven, hard worker.” I ask
what would you think if someone said hi I am “diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure.” Usually I get a weird look. Then a follow question on “why are some diagnoses/labels irrelevant when clearly they are just as detrimental to our health and wellbeing?” Again, a lot of silence.

When retaining our ANT=Automatic Negative Thoughts, we have to start with the ones about ourselves first. If we instill in ourselves as this is our truth how do we move past that?

My only job is to help retrain our views of self, and how we start to plant a seed of hope, replacing negative self identifications, replacing them with words of hope, purpose, healing. How we view and introduce ourself matters, negative thoughts equals 🟰 negative self reflection = hopelessness & self sabotage.

Mental Health Therapist have their purpose to help identify the why process the pain. Mine is to move you past the label in finding purpose. This is the goal 👇 I can’t force you or even make you, but I can stand with you while you find the strength and self worth to motivate yourself in making a positive change. 🩷

Maybe you’re “not ready yet, or waiting for a sign that now is a good time, maybe I don’t want to stop using all substances.” That is all ok, let’s just start out with a simple chat. This journey is yours and we aren’t here to tell you how to take it. We are just here to support change no matter what that looks like for you. You are in control of the direction.

02/07/2026

It truly is a valid reason. Knowing when something or someone isn’t serving you any longer is growth. Never feel guilty to out grow people, places, and things. 🩵

01/31/2026

Change is hard, authentic self aware is difficult but necessary. We can’t change what we are unwilling to acknowledge.

Dive deeper = positive change

01/25/2026

We set a goal by the end of 2025 we would have our own Outpatient clinic up and running. Over the past 2 years we’d been making very small steps in this direction. A lot of tome being in compliance with Nebraska Judicial System regulations, compliance with DHHS Medicaid rules and eligibility for IOP, OP, Peer Support, Case Management etc. Many sleepless nights talking ourselves out of not giving up.

Having our executive directors only sibling passing away so unexpectedly pass away due to complication of his addiction, nearly broke her. It was so hard to keep moving forward knowing she started this journey 21 years ago because of him. When she returned home from AZ, it all of a sudden just fell into place, new partnerships, new opportunities we hadn’t even thought of. It took on a life of its own. 🩷

She is most definitely a “work to avoid” kind of person. Good or bad it seemed to give her the sense of purpose she needed to get out of her head.

A few weeks ago she resigned from her FT postion of being director of peer support and substance use to focus soley on our mission. Something that was really hard for her to do. It allowed our Excective Director to grow both professionally and personally, an experience she’ll forever be grateful for.

Today she stood back to just soak it in, had a conversation with her brother (thankful no one was in the office. It might have been alarming to see her holding a conversation with no-one else around 😉 )

From our amazing team at Unity Inspired we can’t wait to see where we go from here. ❤️ Most importantly we are honored to be apart of so many amazing stories of recovery and get a front row seat watching their journey to healing.

Here is to 2026 a new chapter full of change, rebuilding, healing, filled with possibilities and new beginnings. This has been the most challenging year yet. Out with the Snake and into 2026 the year of the Horse.

If you or your loved one struggles with addiction or needing a little extra support please reach out! We will never push for anything more than what path you’re able to take.

12/29/2025

Baby steps count! We don’t care how you show up, we just want you to show up. ✔️

12/07/2025

The world needs more Rudolf’s and Cindy Lou Who’s. We were all born with differences to make the world a brighter place. Within each one of us is a red heart that holds indefinite space for love.

The world needs your authentic love and brightness to lead the way💗 ❤️ 💚

11/04/2025

Our table has been purchased with our community partner SSG Fox! We are excited for such a fun event, not to mention a fantastic fundraiser! It will be a fantastic evening of fun, fashion, and empowerment💕

Project Funway is our annual fashion design competition and runway show where UNL students and local designers compete to get the Best of Show judge's award. Designers use cast-off or thrift clothing and materials to create unique, one-of-a-kind designs. These designs are then showcased during the P...

10/28/2025

I know for many families we work along side this is really going to hurt. We are very outraged that office politics is once again effecting families, and many others in our communities.

If you are in need of helping locate food resources please reach out. We are diligently trying to link up with other community orgs to find new resources to help alleviate in the interim. I know with holidays and rising cost of living this is a huge setback. With over 150,000 Nebraskans and families losing this vital resource it will take a village to help support one another.

Please let us know if we can help guide you.

DHHS announced they will pause SNAP benefits on Oct. 29 due to the federal government shutdown.

10/26/2025

✔️ Our emotional responses tell us so much, we just need to stop 🛑 and hear 👂 them.

10/18/2025

Today our Executive Director Sarah Jackson and our amazing Recovery Navigator Erica stood in solidarity for Unity, for Human Rights, stood against abuse of power, racial profiling, and hate. We love our community and our fellow Americans. Unity Inspired firmly believes an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

10/08/2025

It’s like Christmas in October! Yep our favorite event of the year! Project Connect is today! 🎉👇Check it out