Volunteers For Recovery

07/19/2025

Blame is the core of all negative emotions.

156.3K likes, 725 comments. “🧠 “No one else is responsible for how you feel — only you are.” — Brian Tracy This is where real transformation begins. Most people spend their entire lives reacting: To people. To problems. To circumstances they claim they can’t control. But the truth is ...

07/12/2025

Unrealistic expectations of others will cause you pain, help form new resentments and if we are not careful it can lead us back to addiction. If you’ve been blessed to put some years under your belt you know, you can never do the right thing long enough to erase the time when you weren’t. People will always remember you that way and treat you as such. They will continue to hold your feet to the fire. To put it simply they will choose to not forgive you. Whose problem is that? That all depends on your expectations. We learned through the recovery process and step work sometimes all we have is a living amends. If doing the right thing for years and years is not enough for them, to bad for them. Often times nothing you can do is enough. It never will be. You can never be clean enough. So do you continue to hurt when after all this time you’re still not accepted? Probably. Or you can decide to move on. You’re worth it. You did the hard work and today your just as (good) as the next person. Don’t expect for people to forgive you for the things you did in active addiction. Don’t live with that guilt if they don’t. Don’t resent them if they can’t. Addiction kills relationships for good and that’s just a fact. Yes, it’s sad. Accept the things we cannot change right? Nobody said any of this would be easy. Nobody said it won’t still hurt. One thing I know prayer will get you through the pain. For the ones that can’t find forgiveness for us, pray for them.

07/10/2025

07/09/2025

So… you want to work in addiction treatment?

You want to sit with the dying?
Hold space for the broken?
Wrap your arms around people society would rather forget?

You want to watch a 17-year-old fall in love with he**in, and carry his casket at 21?
You want to hear an 18-year-old girl whisper through tears how she sold her body for one more hit?

You ever heard a father scream so loud in grief he loses his voice cursing God?
Ever held a mother while she begged you to bring her baby back, even though you can’t?

You want to be called a fraud, a scumbag, a sellout, because you collect a paycheck for bleeding out every day trying to save people?
You want to be judged by people who’ve never sat in a detox, never pulled a body from a bathroom floor, but somehow still think they know better?

You ready to fight for hours to find help for someone with no insurance, only to get a call three days later saying they’re dead, and the family wants to know why you didn’t do more?

You want to carry that guilt?
Carry it into your home, your bed, your child’s birthday party, where you feel like a stranger because your soul’s still stuck in that moment you lost another one?

You still want in?

Because this will break you.
It will numb you.
It will rob you of your light, your sleep, and sometimes even your hope.

But if you’re still here, still standing…
Still choosing to show up,
Still choosing to believe in one more chance,
Still fighting for one more life…

Then welcome to the war.

This isn’t a job. It’s a calling.
And despite all of it… I still choose this.
Every damn day.

This is a day in our lives working with addiction!

07/08/2025

If you’re in this business and not already a certified house, you should be!

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07/05/2025

Wishing you a happy 4th of July!

07/03/2025

So true…

06/20/2025

The free things recovery gives you back are the best.
Your word and Your trust are just a few things you get back. The longer you stay those are the things you’re not willing to give back to addiction.

06/18/2025

Stop treating your recovery like it’s some race with a glorious finish line. Who needs a finish line when you get to wake up each day free from the ball and chains of addiction. There’s no finish line. Call your sponsor if you can’t wrap your head around that.

06/10/2025

Whatever it is, get over it.

06/04/2025

The good old days

05/09/2025

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