The Recovery Center

The Recovery Center Get on the road to recovery at The Recovery Center, located in Lincoln, Nebraska.

We are a state licensed, outpatient substance abuse treatment center with more than 50 years of combined experience. Our service is designed for adults, as well as adolescents and we take confidentiality extremely serious. Here at The Recovery Center, we take an welcoming, down-to-earth approach to treatment. Because we are a relatively small agency, we're able to avoid the red tape and bureaucracy associated with larger agencies.

07/09/2025

Believe in yourself so deeply that you radiate peace and joy

09/08/2024

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.”

– Serena Williams

07/31/2024

KARE 11 investigative reporter A.J. Lagoe says dozens of federal agents descended on Evergreen Recovery around 7 a.m. to execute a search warrant.

11/29/2023

November 29

As with expeditions into the wilds when we have endured storms and rapids, cold and sleet, and sometimes lack of food, it is ultimately the good things we remember, not the bad.

— Sigurd F. Olson

In our daily lives, we often take a very short perspective. We see what is worrisome today, what is pressing hardest, or what is most frightening or confusing. Eventually, we may look back and have a totally different idea about what was truly important on this day.

Let us take a moment now to remember what does endure, what we value most, what counts in the long run. For a brief quiet time, we can let go of all the anxieties of this moment. During these few quiet moments, we will identify our tensions and then place them totally into the hands of our Higher Power. This is our time to let go of our worries and be refreshed. It will provide a background of serenity for our day.

Today, help me remember this corner of serenity as I meet the tasks and activities on my path.

11/24/2023

November 24

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

— Abraham Heschel

Most of us have struggled with our self-esteem. We believed that if we felt better about ourselves we could change some of our behavior. In recovery, we found the reverse to be true. First our behavior changed, then our self-esteem improved.

Only after we stop doing things we don’t respect can we hear and accept the goodwill of others around us. Then we see our value because we are upholding strong self-images by our actions. This is not easy to do. As we learn, we continue to say no to weak behaviors, and we are released to feel greater dignity.

Saying no to my negative behavior today will improve my self respect.

11/20/2023

November 20

The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.

— Albert Einstein

There is no need to be concerned about a conflict between science and the spiritual life. People have turned to the spiritual in many ways since the beginning of humanity. Perhaps in the very center of our humanness is a spiritual compass. When we disown that orientation, do we lose some of our humanness? This program did not invent the spiritual outlook. It only tells us recovery will come through awakening of the spiritual within us.

We are on an exploration. We give ourselves over to it and only discover where our awakening will lead as it unfolds. The Steps tell us to engage with the God of our understanding; to develop a relationship of trust, total openness, and humility; and to improve the contact. As the center of our humanness is restored, we come alive and our daily tasks take on new meaning.

May I be awakened again to that cosmic feeling we all inherit.

11/19/2023

November 19

Reflection for the Day

I no longer argue with people who believe that satisfaction of our natural desires is the primary purpose of life. It’s not our business in the program to knock material achievement. When we stop and think about it, in fact, no group of people ever made a worse mess of trying to live by that “la dolce vita” formula than we did. We always insisted on more than our share—in all areas. And even when we seemed to be succeeding, we fueled our addictions so that we could dream of still greater successes. Am I learning that material satisfactions are simply by-products and not the chief aim of life? Am I gaining the perspective to see that character building and spiritual values must come first?

Today I Pray

May I recognize that I never did handle excesses very well, based on my past experience. I have been apt to “want more” of whatever it is I have—love, money, property, things, substances, foods, winnings. May the program teach me that I must concentrate on my spiritual rather than my material bounty.

Today I Will Remember

It’s okay to be spiritually greedy.

11/18/2023

November 18

I always entertain great hopes.

— Robert Frost

In our honest journey, we must admit that life is often difficult and painful. But these facts do not describe all of life, and they do not determine how we respond. The sun rises warm and bright after a cold and dark night. The open, generous smile of a small child reaches into the soft part of us all. To be strong and hardy on this spiritual path, we must be truthful about the pain and unfairness in life while holding firmly to a belief in all the generous possibilities.

Surrendering to despair, we trade the uncertainty of options for the certainty of gloom. Then we might say, “At least I’m never disappointed this way.” But life isn’t filled only with difficulty and pain. It is also filled with people whose dignity and spirit rise above their circumstances. There are situations when great sacrifice or love and wisdom can turn a problem into an opportunity and a strength. If we look at what has happened in our own lives and in those of others, we have ample reason to hope.

My own experience in recovery gives me great hope in what can be.

11/17/2023

November 17

Reflection for the Day

Many of us in the program stubbornly cling to false ideas and positions simply because we fear we’d be left defenseless if we admitted having been wrong. The thought of “backing down” still seems distasteful to some of us. But we come to learn that our self-esteem soars when we’re able to push pride into the background and truly face the facts. Chances are that people with true humility have more genuine self-esteem than those of us who are repeatedly victimized by pride. Does pride deviously keep me from thorough and continuing attention to the Tenth Step?

Today I Pray

May pride stay out of my way, now that I’ve found a road to follow. May I avoid that familiar, destructive cycle of pride—the ego that balloons up out of all proportion and then deflates with a fizzle. May I learn the value of “backing down.”

Today I Will Remember

Pride is the arch-enemy of self-esteem.

11/14/2023

November 14

Reflection for the Day

First search for a little humility, my sponsor urged me. If you don’t, he said, you’re greatly increasing the risk of going out there again. After a while, in spite of my lifelong rebelliousness, I took his advice; I began to try to practice humility, simply because I believed it was the right thing to do. Hopefully, the day will come when most of my rebelliousness will be but a memory, and then I’ll practice humility because I deeply want it as a way of life. Can I try today to leave my self behind and to seek the humility of self-forgetfulness?

Today I Pray

Since I—like so many people with substance use disorders—am a rebel, may I know that I will need to practice humility. May I recognize that humility does not come easily to a rebellious nature, whether I am out-and-out defiant, dug-in negative, or, more subtly, determined in a roundabout way to change everything else but myself. I pray that by practicing humility it will become instinctive for me.

Today I Will Remember

Get the humble habit.

11/12/2023

November 12

An ideal is a man’s portrait of his better self.

— Louis Binstock

When in training for athletics, we use a daily routine to reach a peak condition. We stretch, lift weights, run, and do special conditioning to develop our bodies and skills for that big day of competition. It’s hard work. Sometimes we hate it, but at other times we do it just because it feels so good. Then when the day of competition comes, we can depend on that practice. At a crucial moment there’s not time to think about how we will respond. We just do it the way we learned and use our physical ability to carry us through.

In this program, we go to our meetings, we work the Steps on a personal level, we develop a relationship with our Higher Power, and we keep in touch with our sponsor. Some days we may wonder if it’s worthwhile, but most of the time the process is full and rewarding in itself. We make progress toward the ideal, although we never achieve perfection. When the challenges or threats to our sobriety come, we have our conditioning within the program to carry us through.

In this day ahead, I will remember that I am building myself to peak condition. I will be faithful to my “training program.”

11/10/2023

November 10

Reflection for the Day

When I first came to the program, I thought that humility was just another word for weakness. But I gradually learned that there’s nothing incompatible between humility and intellect, just as long as I place humility first. As soon as I began to do that, I was told, I would receive the gift of faith—a faith that would work for me as it has worked and continues to work for countless others who have been freed of their addictions and have found a new way of life in the program. Have I come to believe, in the words of Heine, that “the actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them”?

Today I Pray

May I never let my intelligence be an excuse for lack of humility. It is so easy, if I consider myself reasonably bright and capable of making decisions and handling my own affairs, to look down upon humility as a property of those less intelligent. May I remember that intelligence and humility are both Higher Power-given.

Today I Will Remember

If I have no humility, I have no intelligence.

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3200 O Street, Suite 5
Lincoln, NE
68510

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Monday 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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