Recovery Articles & Events
Updates, insights, and opportunities from across California’s recovery community
This page brings together educational articles, community updates, and event announcements that support and strengthen the recovery ecosystem. Whether you’re looking for practical guidance, statewide news, or opportunities to connect, you’ll find it all here in one place.
The Recovery Ready Community
Today is August First. History reports that disastrous events scatter people, and then bring them together. Survivors gather in mutual and sustaining support. In the past and now today, we hear the words— together we shall There are communities with interlocking…
Roe, Roe, Roe, Your Roeboat
This is the last day of June. I am reminded of a Mark Twain quote: It is not what we know, it is what we know that just isn’t so! And little or no time to find out. I need not write about the ever-changing daily news. You know some if not all. …
5 Dimensions of Recovery Capital – Do You Know the Basics?
According to the originators, William Cloud and Robert Granfield, Recovery Capital refers to “the breadth and depth of internal and external resources that can be drawn upon to initiate and sustain recovery” from substance use disorder. William White’s work heightened…
Loves and Lives Lost
I began this blog before the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting. This horrible event, involving young school children, got much world attention. History reports that mass shootings scatter people, and then bring them together. Survivors gather in mutual and sustaining…
APRIL is Alcohol AWARENESS Month
On February 27, I celebrated my 90th year on the planet. In all the years, alcohol was my only drug of choice. It served me well until it didn’t. Upon my return to California in 2019 we started a new non-profit called The Purpose of Recovery. As I…
Vim-Vigor-Virtualocity
Vim: energy and enthusiasm.: Vigor: mental and moral strength. Virtualocity: The ability to move about among faces and places for learning opportunities. With vim and vigor, I can always go there, without leaving my chair and absorb things to share. I don’t…
Bridging Prevention and Recovery is a Win-Win in Our Nation’s Drug Epidemic
After losing our son to an accidental overdose on his fourth day of college, my wife and I founded a national nonprofit focused on helping reverse the addiction fatality epidemic. We, along with other organizations, are tackling this national emergency with urgency….
The World is Upside Down
In order to write a worthwhile little, I have to watch, listen and read a lot. I look for other’s words to capture, contemplate, and pass along. I saw a quote from Oprah that said. “The world is upside down” The context related to a tragic incident of lawlessness but…
10 Processes of Change — Do You Know What Drives the 5 Stages?
As I’ve traveled the country these past 4+ years launching R1 I’ve learned a lot, with the help from so many others, about the behavioral health industry, workforce shortages, and the basic competencies required for practitioners to be effective at all levels of…
Mind Over Matters
We celebrated September as Recovery Month. For me and others, October has been Discovery Month. In that regard, I am reminded of the quote from Albert Einstein, “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance,” We have heard the expression mind…
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