Bay Area Recovery Center

08/27/2024

Renewed Hope is hosting a 5K to raise money for alcohol and drug treatment for those in need!!! Mark your calendars 📆 and come show your support! 👇www.runningtowardsrecovery.com

05/03/2022

We are looking for a LVN! If you know of any candidates, please send them our way. Will accept inquiries from RNs as well.

08/19/2020

05/14/2020

In case you missed it: Grapevine is currently sharing issues (Jan 2020-May 2020) of its magazine online for free during the pandemic.

Check it out here: www.aagrapevine.org/we-are-here-to-help

Due to the current changing health situation, many AA meetings across the U.S. and Canada are finding it safer to close. To help members during this time, we are giving everyone free access for a limited period to our 2020 Grapevine (January through May) and La Viña (Jan/Feb through May/June) print...

01/08/2020

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein~

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
Martin Luther king jr. ~

Connection and energy xists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
Brené Brown~

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will be as one…
John Lennon ~

12/19/2019

The first step of Alcoholics Anonymous is not an admission that we have a drinking problem. It is an admission that our condition is terminal and we should get our affairs in order.

The first step is the acceptance of a previously elusive truth: we are ruined. Out of options. We will drink, no matter what. If not now, or later today, then in a week or a month or a year. Not if, but when. Our efforts to fix the problem have been an unmitigated, catastrophic failure. It is a conclusion backed by data.

It is worth repeating: the first step is not a commitment to stop drinking. It’s an acceptance of the truth that we will drink.

It is out of this harsh desolation that the second step emerges. It poses a question: if you can’t fix this, maybe something else can? Since your resources have been proven inadequate, what other resources might there be?

The second step does not ask you to believe in God. It doesn’t even suggest it. It does not mention God, or god, or any other deity.

Instead, the second step quietly announces that those who’ve gone before you, those who’ve found themselves exactly where you are, have found a way out. It did not require that they profess faith in God, or that they abandon their reservations about the divine. All it required was that they suspend outright disbelief. The second step asks us to return to our childhood, when we didn’t have all the answers, when we were open to possibilities. It simply asks us to not say no, to embark on a journey to solve our problem.

Given our circumstances, and supposing we want to live, can we move forward with that?

11/26/2019

Calling all House 3 Alumni.. Annual Thanksgiving Breakfast and Morning Meditation. 7am-10am. Breakfast is POT LUCK

04/18/2019

https://www.bayarearecovery.com/the-challenges-of-dual-diagnosis-in-drug-treatment-programs/

What can be the challenges of diagnosing an addiction versus a mental disorder and can they be correlated? Read here on Bay Area Recovery Center for more information.

03/11/2019

Bay Area Recovery Center supports the American Foundation for Su***de Prevention in their campaign to ***de.

Those of us in Recovery know that the best way to stay well is to carry the message to those that are still suffering. Su***de affects more than just the person contemplating it; it becomes a domino effect and the only way to have any hope or chance for happiness is spreading the message, getting involved and helping one another.


Please follow the link in the comments to learn more about why BARC is supporting this cause.

https://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=5923

Walk Date: 04/06/2019 Walk Location: Lynn Eusan Park at UH - Houston, TX Check-in/Registration Time:  10:00 am Walk Begins: 11:00 am Walk Ends: 1:00 pm

03/06/2019

https://www.bayarearecovery.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2172&action=edit

02/22/2019

https://www.bayarearecovery.com/what-is-texass-prescription-drug-disposal-program/

Will the Prescription Drug Disposal Program help with the amount of opioid related overdoses? Read here on Bay Area Recovery Center for more information.

02/19/2019

https://www.bayarearecovery.com/hope-an-essential-element-of-addiction-recovery/

Hope is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “the feeling that something desired can be had or will happen.” Hope helps people recover from addiction and to see the light on a day that may be filled with darkness. There are frustrations and set-backs during the recovery process, but those goin...