Project Harmony - Meeker McLeod Sibley Counties

09/29/2025

Don’t forget! This Wednesday, October 1, at St. Paul's Lutheran School-Arlington, MN !
Invite a friend or two!
After the speaker event, we have an amazing line up of panelists to answer questions.

09/29/2025

❤️ Recovery is Love in Action

Recovery is an act of love—love for yourself, for your life, and for those around you. Choosing healing is choosing love, again and again. Love sustains us when willpower feels weak.

✨ Reflection: How can you show yourself love today?

09/28/2025

🌍 Recovery is for Everyone

National Recovery Month reminds us that recovery is possible for every person, every family, and every community. It’s not limited to a few—it’s a hope available to all. Together, we’re stronger.

✨ Reflection: How can you help spread the message that recovery is for everyone?

09/27/2025

🌟 Join Us for an Evening to Celebrate! 🌟

We’re excited to invite you to the RCN Annual Banquet for Recovery — a night of inspiration, connection, and gratitude. Let’s come together to honor the strength, resiliency, and unwavering spirit of our recovery community. 🎗️

📅 Date: October 17, 2025
🕔 Time: Social Hour 5:00-6:00 PM • Dinner & Program 6:00-8:30 PM
📍 Location: River’s Edge Convention Center, Herberger Suite (2nd Floor)

✨ Highlights:
• Delicious dinner + dessert 🍽️
• Inspiring keynote speaker sharing powerful stories
• Support RCN’s mission

Mark your calendar. Bring your friends, allies, and loved ones. Let’s strengthen our community together! ❤️

https://www.recoverycommunitynetwork.com/recovery-banquet

09/27/2025

🕊️ Courage in the Everyday

Courage doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it’s just getting out of bed, showing up for a meeting, or making it through another day clean and sober. These small acts of courage add up to incredible strength.

✨ Reflection: What everyday act of courage are you practicing today?

09/26/2025

🧘 Letting Go for Peace

So much of serenity comes from letting go. We can’t control everything—but we can choose how we respond. Letting go creates room for healing, freedom, and peace.

✨ Reflection: What do you need to let go of today to find serenity?

09/25/2025

The Fourth Step--fearing our feelings
Page 279

"We may fear that being in touch with our feelings will trigger an overwhelming chain reaction of pain and panic."
Basic Text, p. 30
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A common complaint about the Fourth Step is that it makes us painfully conscious of our defects of character. We may be tempted to falter in our program of recovery. Through surrender and acceptance, we can find the resources we need to keep working the steps.

It's not the awareness of our defects that causes the most agony--it's the defects themselves. When we were using, all we felt was the drugs; we could ignore the suffering our defects were causing us. Now that the drugs are gone, we feel that pain. Refusing to acknowledge the source of our anguish doesn't make it go away; denial protects the pain and makes it stronger. The Twelve Steps help us deal with the misery caused by our defects by dealing directly with the defects themselves.

If we hurt from the pain of our defects, we can remind ourselves of the nightmare of addiction, a nightmare from which we've now awakened. We can recall the hope for release the Second Step gave us. We can again turn our will and our lives over, through the Third Step, to the care of the God of our understanding. Our Higher Power cares for us by giving us the help we need to work the rest of the Twelve Steps. We don't have to fear our feelings. Just for today, we can continue in our recovery.
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Just for Today: I won't be afraid of my feelings. With the help of my Higher Power, I'll continue in my recovery.

09/25/2025

💪 Rebuilding Trust

One of the hardest parts of recovery can be rebuilding trust—with ourselves and with others. But step by step, honesty and consistency make healing possible. Trust grows slowly, but it does grow.

✨ Reflection: How are you practicing honesty with yourself and others today?

09/24/2025

I just watched this video on what addiction feels like—and wow. 🎥 It captures it perfectly.
Addiction is a disease of progression.
First, you take the drug. Then the drug takes you.
It’s not about weakness or morality.
It’s cunning. Baffling. Powerful.
And ultimately, destructive. 💔
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like inside the grip of addiction, this shows it.
But here’s the good news: recovery is possible. 🙌 No matter how far down the spiral you’ve gone, there is a way out—and there is hope.

Kiwi tastes a golden nugget. It's delicious.Script, direction, animation: Andreas HykadeAnimation, artwork: Angela SteffenMusic & sound: Heiko MaileFlute: To...

09/24/2025

🌟 Creating Your Future

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Recovery gives us the power to write a new story for ourselves—one filled with freedom, purpose, and joy. Every choice you make today is shaping the future you want.

✨ Reflection: What kind of future are you working toward in recovery?

09/24/2025

23 September

Dealing with gossip
Page 277

"In accordance with the principles of recovery, we try not to judge, stereotype, or moralize with each other."
Basic Text, p. 11
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Let's face it: In Narcotics Anonymous, we live in a glass house of sorts. Our fellow members know more about our personal lives than anyone has ever known before. They know who we spend our time with, where we work, what step we're on, how many children we have, and so forth. And what our fellow members don't know, they will probably imagine.

We may be unhappy when others gossip about us. But if we withdraw from the fellowship and isolate ourselves to avoid gossip, we also rob ourselves of the love, friendship, and unparalleled experience with recovery that our fellow members have to offer. A better way to deal with gossip is to simply accept the way things are and the way we are, and live our lives according to principles. The more secure we become with our personal program, the decisions we make, and the guidance we receive from a loving God, the less the opinions of others will concern us.
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Just for Today: I am committed to being involved in the NA Fellowship. The opinions of others will not affect my commitment to recovery.

09/23/2025

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You matter. You’re not alone.