05/11/2026
Woohoo...Your Monday just got a whole lot better.🎉 It's Motion Maker Monday and we're shining the spotlight on the incredible Sarah Phillips, our Behavioral Health Practitioner extraordinaire. 🔦
This Motion Maker is often the first face our clients see when they walk in the door at Recovery in Motion and she sets the tone of the whole initial experience. More importantly, she creates an atmosphere of caring which is simply unmatched in this industry. It's this reason why she is loved by those who are truly struggling and by all of us in the company as well. ❤️
Check out why she is such a superhero below! 🦸♀️👇
Q. Personal searches of new clients entering our program is one of your many duties. What's the most "interesting" thing you have found so far? 🫣
A. I reached into a backpack pocket and unexpectedly grabbed a pocket-sized adult toy.. First and only time its happened.🤯
Q. What’s the most creative excuse you’ve heard for why someone definitely “doesn’t need treatment”?
A. That they have a high tolerance and that's different from being addicted and needing treatment... as he just admitted to our program from prison on drug charges.😳
Q. If clients got to rate you after intake, what category would you score highest in: patience, honesty, or “calling people out respectfully”?
A. I'd like to think all of the above but mostly “Calling people out respectfully” with a side of being too honest probably
Q. If your office had a brutally honest sign on the door, what would it say?
A. 1) This office is full of Love, Laughter and a little bit of What the F*** 😂
2) My ducks are absolutely not in a row. I dont even know where some of them are and I'm pretty sure one of them are a pigeon. 🤷🏼♂️
Q. What’s the unofficial fuel source of Behavioral Health Practitioners everywhere — caffeine, sarcasm, or pure determination?
A. A little of all 3...but everyone that knows me knows i don't walk into work without my Orange Red bull in hand, and the one already consumed on my drive to work. Its part of my job description 😆
Q. What’s one thing clients do during intake that immediately makes you think, “Here we go…”? 🙄
A. When they ask if they have to stay the full 60 days or if they can do 30 days. Ummm....its a 60 day program
Can I have my own room, I dont want a roommate...uuummm... No
Q. On the serious side — what’s the most rewarding part of helping someone take that first real step toward recovery at Recovery in Motion?
A. I am lucky enough to be one of the first people the clients sit down and talk with when they come to Recovery In Motion. I get to see them when they come to treatment at one of the most difficult and most vulnerable times of their life. I get insight as to what brought them to Recovery in Motion, their struggles, fear, loss of family, relationships, kids, employment etc.... then its usually finding out what they want out of being in treatment, goals, strengths, and determination. To know that 6-foot 200lb tough grown men can sit in my office and feel safe enough to open up and even start crying sometimes reminds me why I do what I do. The most rewarding is seeing guys that have lost everything especially themselves come in broken, sad, empty, and discouraged and leave with confidence, their relationships with families and children restored, tons of support, goals they want to achieve and mostly a feeling of purpose again. I cry with them, laugh with them, disagree with them and hopefully at times their voice of reason. I know one thing they help me as much as I help them.
