12th Step Street Recovery

09/04/2025

The struggle is real... but our Warriors still face the silence alone. Keep them in your prayers as they face their challenges. Everyone of them is one of God's children.

08/26/2025

All parks are without water and restrooms until issues are resolved. A lot of our Warriors will be needing water as we continue to face the high summer temperatures.

08/22/2025

When you know you can't do it even one more day... its time to make the decision... we can help you do a lot of things, but only YOU can change your life.

08/21/2025

Its ok to be lost, if your WILLING to let yourself be found.

08/20/2025

08/15/2025

I DID NOT WRITE THIS... but I am sharing it because of the clear depiction of what so many addicts are are going through:
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They call it a drug, but that word
is far too soft. This isn’t w**d or whiskey. No…
m**h is som**hing else entirely.

M**h is sorcery.

When I was in its grip,
I didn’t feel high. I felt haunted.
It starts like any ritual.
A pipe.
A flame.
A crystal shard.
A moment of silence.
Then the inhale.
And with it, som**hing enters.

It doesn’t come as light;
it comes as shadow.

It wraps itself around your spine and begins to whisper.

At first, those whispers feel like power. You think you’re unlocking som**hing: limitless energy, untouchable confidence, euphoria.

Sleep? No. Who would sleep through som**hing as good as this?

But it’s a lie. You aren’t unlocking anything. You’re being bound.

M**h doesn’t just alter your mood - it alters your soul.

I’ve watched people lose their reflection in the mirror, watched their eyes shift from windows to prisons.

I know, because it happened to me.
I wasn’t myself anymore.
I was a puppet, and the strings weren’t just chemical,
they were spiritual.

People don’t understand until they’ve lived it:

m**h is demonic.

It doesn’t just take your health,
your teeth, your money, your kids.
It literally steals your smile and
It takes your will.

It tears open a spiritual door that most people never knew existed, and once that door is opened, som**hing comes through. Som**hing dark. Som**hing ancient. Som**hing hungry.

That’s why m**h is unlike anything else. It doesn’t just kill - it curses. And that’s why most people can’t get free on their own. Rehab, jail, programs - they help some, but when someone truly breaks free from m**h, there’s almost always a deeper story. ..

A spiritual one.

M**h is sorcery, and you don’t break a spell with willpower.

You break it with deliverance.

That’s why I speak boldly now. That’s why I risk sounding crazy. Because I was crazy. I lived in a realm of darkness that most people only glimpse in nightmares.
And now I’m free. So if you’re reading this and m**h has its claws in you, understand this:
you’re not just battling addiction.
You’re battling a spirit.
You’re in a war for your soul.

You have the power to defeat it......
It's up to you to make that choice and walk away from that war ......

08/13/2025

If some of you only knew my story... you all have heard people say "If I can do it, anyone can do it." Well... I am that guy. The guy that should either be in 8' under ground or serving a life sentence on the installment plan. But there is a God, and there is hope for ANYONE who wants som**hing more. Don't ever stop believing that you can have a better life. It begins today.

08/13/2025

And we wonder why our generation has record numbers of mentally ill, or why there are so many who would choose to separate themselves from society. Addiction doesn't just happen. Its a product of fear. Its a temporary solution to the crisis happening every day around us but no one wants to address.

08/11/2025

As today closes, I want to honor the life of one of our Warriors who was taken from us earlier today. In remembrance of Scarlet, I want to just acknowledge her as one of ours. I remember her specifically because her name always made me burst into a song I used to love as a kid... everytime I saw her I'd start singing...

🎶 🎶 🎶
Yes, I get scarlet fever
If she knew how much I need her
She'd place her hand in my hand
And dance away with me...
🎶 🎶 🎶

Rest in peace Scarlet... there's no more suffering.

08/09/2025

The temptation to carry an addict we love through their struggles, is also depriving them of them of the victories they need to believe in themselves again. We can encourage them without robbing them of their opportunity to grow.

- C. A. Adams