Recovery Works Healing Center, LLC.

Recovery Works Healing Center, LLC. Outpatient Alcohol and Drug, Mental Health Treatment Centers. Medical Assisted Treatment available. Outpatient mental health & addiction counseling

11/19/2025

Because I have been athirst I will dig a well that others may drink.
~Arabian Saying

Most of us do as we please. When we want to go, we go; when we want to stay, we stay. We're accustomed to moving around freely and never even think about it. We trust that a door will open if we turn the k**b and push. Unfortunately, we never appreciate what we take for granted, and we are less for that.

A young man at an adult child meeting shared that he had just been released from prison, where doors are locked. After his release, the first thing he had done, he said, was to walk back and forth across the pressure plate of the bus station door. He wanted to be the one to make a door open and close. Onlookers had laughed at him, he said, but he didn't care. He appreciated the chance to move, to go where he wanted. Having known the hell of doors that won't open, he had an awareness that the rest of us didn't have. As his recovery continues, he will have much to share with people who've been trapped in prisons of their own.

May I have the insight to recognize my own special qualifications, and the willingness to share them with others.

11/18/2025

I need to be continually gathered back into the fold.
~David Crawford

Step Ten suggests that we take a daily inventory of ourselves, continuing in the spirit of Step Four's searching and fearless review of our past.

We can take a few moments at any time during the day or evening for quiet reflection and review of the past twenty-four hours. We can list all that we're grateful for. Scanning our contacts with others, we can ask ourselves whether we've kept open the channels of truthful and caring communication.

If there is something we wish we had done differently, rather than criticize or punish ourselves we can decide to remedy the situation at the earliest opportunity, admitting any mistakes and changing our behavior. If there are positive actions we've taken during the day - or actions we've wisely refrained from taking - we can acknowledge our progress. No inventory lists only deficits.

Let's also take a fresh look at our relationship with ourselves and ask whether we're treating ourselves with sensitivity and respect. Let's remember, too, to honor our relationship to Spirit and ask for help in cherishing the life force flowing through us.

Today, I review my actions in a spirit of gentleness and with faith in the possibility of progress.

11/06/2025

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
~Peter De Vries

Sometimes we get so tangled up in beliefs, concepts, and definitions that we have no choice but to sit back and have a good laugh at ourselves. If we don't at least occasionally find ourselves a little silly, we're in trouble. Our search for enlightenment and fulfillment, noble as it may seem, might actually come down to one thing - self-centeredness.

It's all well and good to seek spiritual truths, but many of us are looking in the wrong places. Do we know someone who could use a helping hand? Is a friend in trouble? Are we doing something to brighten someone's day? Our faith is empty if we put concern for our own soul before the needs of another.

When we overlook what we can do for our fellow travelers, we are missing the whole point. If we are busy being helpful, we don't need to worry about searching for God.

I don't need to look any further than the next person I can help.

10/28/2025

Pause

I've learned the importance of pausing. I need to pause - especially when I'm unsure about something. I've learned that I'm an extrovert, and my tendency is to just talk, talk, talk. When I'm uncomfortable, I talk.

Back when I was drinking, alcohol filled that gap for me. Now I know to pause and be quiet and just listen. It's so impactful.

I'm at the point in my current job where I'll have all these people - the pharmacist, the doctor, and the research team - coming at me at once. There are days when I'm literally so quiet, because there's not enough time to react to what they're saying to me. They ask me, "Did you hear that?" I'm like, "Oh, yes I heard it. I'm just listening to you, and I'll revisit this in an hour after I've had a chance to look into it."

For me, that is a miracle. Really. Because when you're in the military, everything is quick, snap - right then and there. We have so much coming at us all the time.

For me, meditation has become crucial. I just need to pause and really listen to the universe.

Today I will pause instead of reacting right away.

~Anonymous, U.S. Air Force, 1997–2000

10/27/2025

Accepting our Higher Power's love

Our Higher Power's love is so encompassing and powerful that we cannot understand it. Doubtless, many have turned away from our fellowship because they could not accept such love. Why would I deserve such love? Where would it come from?

Maybe these words were once ours, but as we apply our newfound principles we come to understand love, not in our intellect, but in our being. It is through the love and grace of our Higher Power that we have gained so much.

Am I accepting that love?

Higher Power, may I come to know the influence of your love, helping me day by day, hour by hour.

Today I will see my Higher Power's love in...

10/24/2025

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

There's a lot wrong in the world - just check the headlines. Our old way of dealing with these troubles was to rant about them, or ignore them, or numb our minds with substances.

Now we have a new way to change the world. We're changing ourselves. One day at a time, we're acting like the caring, responsible people we want to be. We use the ideas of the program in our lives.

We're kinder. We're more honest. We stand up for ourselves and for others who need our help. What if the whole world started working the Steps? What a wonderful world this would be!

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, please work through me today. Help me make the world a little better place.

Action for the Day
I'll list one thing that bothers me about the world today. How can using the ideas of the program help solve that problem? Remember, the program tells us to look at our own behavior.

10/23/2025

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
~Muriel Ruheyser

There was once a storyteller who told many people of her life. They listened and heard their own stories in hers. Hearing her story, they didn't feel so lonely anymore. Hearing about someone else who had lost things and people she loved, who had felt lonely, scared, and unsure of herself, let them feel less crazy when similar things happened to them.

Because of the healing they felt through hearing someone else's story, some of the listeners decided to become storytellers themselves. As they recounted their stories, they found that letting out secrets that had bothered them for years freed them to feel good about who they were and who they had always wanted to be.

10/20/2025

People have always wanted to talk to me about their problems. I guess I'm a good listener. Maybe I have something to contribute after all.
~JoAnn Reed

No one is without value in this life. Maybe we haven't discovered our unique purpose or special gifts, but we each have a place in the universe, or we wouldn't be here. Each of us can offer friends a valuable gift every day - we can listen. Messages from our Higher Power often come through the words of others. We perform a wonderful service for our companions by listening and by sharing our own experience and advice.

Rapt attention - giving it and receiving it - is perhaps the most valuable contribution any of us can make. Let's never underestimate the sacredness of listening.

I will keep my own mind quiet if a friend wants to share her concerns today. That way, my heart may be able to offer her the wisdom she needs.

10/19/2025

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.
~Eudora Welty

We will experience no coincidence today. All situations that transpire in the next twenty-four hours have their purpose. No single event, not the tired, hurried smile from a boss, the phone call from a frantic friend, or the cold response from a co-worker is without impact on our current perception of life. However, we shouldn't try to evaluate the full significance of any passing event without God's help. Letting our Higher Power offer us clarity regarding the circumstances in our life will ensure a healthy perspective.

We've all experienced trauma because we exaggerated a problem rather than calmly let our inner wisdom guide us. We're only an impulsive thought away from a flurry of problems. Likewise, we're only an instant away from peace and enlightenment. The quiet mind will be ever present if that's our wish.

I'll truly understand the events of today if I quietly let God reveal their significance.

10/16/2025

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Charles A. Beard

We human beings seem to prefer to be in the light. Most of us rely on the daylight to move around safely and do our work. In the light we feel like we have more control. At night, when the world is dark, we feel less in control. We do two things: we turn on the lights so we can continue our daytime activity, or we go to sleep.

But darkness has gifts for us - different gifts than we get from light. Darkness changes how we see things. In the dark we see less, but we pay better attention. As we let go of our fears and let our eyes adjust to the dark, we find that we can see more than we first thought. We can see enough to take the next step. There are some things, like the stars, that we can see better in the dark.

Prayer for the Day

Higher Power, let me learn the lessons of loving the dark. Let me learn to really see the gifts that surround and support me, and the beautiful possibilities that life holds for me.

Today's Action

Tonight as I get ready for bed, I will get a different view of my surroundings. I will sit up in the dark for a few minutes. I will feel the floor or bed supporting me, and I will let my eyes adjust to the dark.

10/13/2025

We are no longer spiritually bankrupt.

We believed happiness was only a dim possibility when we finally sought the help of the program. We had given up on God's fulfilling our wishes long ago. Sons and daughters were out of control. Spouses and partners were drinking and distant. Bosses were demanding and neighbors were nosy. Very few people lived up to our expectations!

A Twelve Step program was a last resort for many of us, and we weren't very hopeful. Prayers had failed us before, so why would a Higher Power be any more helpful? One of the first things we heard is that our Higher Power, or God as we understand God, answers our prayers but not necessarily on our timetable. We also learned that God gives us what we need, not what we want.

The miracle is that now we feel better than we've felt for years. For some of us, many things haven't changed: Drinkers are still drinking. Jobs are still stressful and our kids still worry us. Still, we feel hopeful, because we believe that God is taking care of us according to the plan for each of our lives. Praying for knowledge of God's will for us is a prayer that always gets answered.

I won't beseech God to do anything my way today. I'll pray to know God's way instead. My intuition can steer me.

10/09/2025

If You Are New to This Thing Called Recovery

One day you will look in the mirror and cry out to yourself, I can't do this anymore. And you will put down your drink, your drug, your food, your addictive relationship, your compulsive behavior. You will experiment with letting go of controlling that thing that you have been hanging on to so tightly for so long. That will be the beginning.

Some other day (not necessarily the next day) you will realize that, against all odds, you have made it through another day without resorting to a maladaptive behavior that serves no helpful purpose. You will be proud that you got through the day, because it wasn't an easy day, and you will think, Maybe there is something to this recovery thing. Maybe I can do this. And as the days go on, even if they don't stack one on top of the other, you will, indeed, do this thing called recovery.

Recovery isn't always easy, but our lives become easier to live in recovery.

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