Open Arms Recovery Center

12/19/2025

Sharing the kindest thank you card - we feel so blessed with kindness and support from so many and are honored to give back to our clients and their families- this means so much and makes all the hard work worth it!

12/19/2025

2025 Annual Christmas event🎄🎄

12/19/2025

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all who donated to help make our annual Christmas event a success! And to all who helped and ones who prepared food. We appreciate all of you and wish you all a Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year!
The Hanover Home Association
The Rice Family Foundation
New Oxford Social and Athletic Club
The Republican Club
The McSherrystown Home Association
Deb Sterner
Leslie A Jones
Prince Athletic Association
Brad Zeigler Midway Tavern
Hughes Meats
Rodney Sponseller
Santa’s Sleepers
All our amazing staff💕

12/19/2025

For some, the holiday season and celebrations can trigger unwanted emotions or behaviors. Help is available, if you or someone in your life is struggling with the use of substances, including alcohol, and would like support with recovery: samhsa.gov/find-help

12/19/2025

12/19/2025

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12/19/2025

Day 4 of Spirit Days 2025
Flannel & French toast day

12/18/2025

You’re the only one who’s doubting you. Keep going.

12/18/2025

Seasonal depression is real af! If you've been feeling down, don't worry you're not alone in this. Here are some simple tips to ease your seasonal depression and conquer this month! 🫶

12/18/2025

Let me say this in a way that actually lands.

People love to zoom in on the final moment. The reaction. The boundary. The decision that finally looks loud.

That’s the part they judge.

What they don’t look at—and what they don’t want to look at—is the entire haystack that came before it.

They’ll point at the straw that broke the camel’s back and say, “That was an overreaction.”
They’ll say you changed.
They’ll say you snapped.
They’ll say you went too far.

But they weren’t there for the weight that piled up slowly.

They didn’t feel the pressure of being patient one more time. They didn’t carry the disrespect that got brushed off as “nothing.” They didn’t absorb the excuses, the dismissals, the broken promises, or the times you chose peace over confrontation just to keep things together.

You didn’t react to one thing.
You responded to everything.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth: it’s easier for people to judge the moment than to take responsibility for the pattern. If they acknowledged the whole haystack, they’d have to admit they played a role in stacking it.

So they focus on the straw.

They label you difficult.
They rewrite your character.
They pretend the collapse came out of nowhere.

But growth looks like this sometimes.

It looks like finally setting a boundary people benefited from you not having. It looks like choosing self-respect after years of self-abandonment. It looks like walking away instead of carrying one more load you were never meant to bear alone.

You don’t owe anyone an explanation for the weight they refused to help carry.

If someone only notices the breaking point and not the endurance it took to get there, that tells you everything you need to know about how deeply they were paying attention.

— j. anthony |

12/18/2025

the healer’s promise.