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Family & Friends of Addicts, Miami, FL (2025)

03/18/2024

When a man’s self is hidden from everybody else . . . it seems also to become hidden even from himself, and it permits disease and death to gnaw into his substance without his clear knowledge.

— Sidney Jourard

A man’s recovery is in knowing himself honestly and learning to have loving relationships with others. Many of us have had close calls with death as the consequence of our addictions or codependency. We ignored the dangers in our lives, and many of us neglected our health. We wore ourselves out and wasted our energies.

Spiritual recovery and physical health go hand in hand. In recovery, moving toward fullness in life, our selves are returned to us. We leave behind our old learning and habits because they were lethal. We are becoming men who tune in to ourselves and to others around us. We are looking at ourselves and saying, “I’ll work with it!”

I will not hide myself; I will continue to be open with myself and others.

01/31/2024

AA Thought for the Day
A drinking life isn’t a happy life. Drinking cuts you off from other people and from God. One of the worst things about drinking is the loneliness. And one of the best things about AA is the fellowship. Drinking cuts you off from other people, at least from the people who really matter to you—your family, your co-workers, and your real friends. No matter how much you love them, you build up a wall between you and them by your drinking. You’re cut off from any real companionship with them. As a result, you’re terribly lonely. Have I gotten rid of my loneliness?

Meditation for the Day
I will sometimes go aside into a quiet place of retreat with God. In that place, I will find restoration and healing and power. I will plan quiet times now and then, times when I will commune with God and rise rested and refreshed to carry on the work that God has given me to do. I know that God will never give me a load greater than I can bear. It is in serenity and peace that all true success lies.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may strengthen my inner life, so that I may find serenity. I pray that my soul may be restored in quietness and peace.

12/19/2023

Please join us at for a Christmas meal at our Park Property on Christmas Day.
All Evolutions Alumni are welcome to join us!
Please text me directly at (954)-646-7788 to RSVP.
Evolutions Alumni Group
Evolutions Treatment Center

09/05/2023

‘Mi familia’ 🙏🏾

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08/31/2023

Reflection for the Day
From time to time, I begin to think I know what my Higher Power’s will is for other people. I say to myself, “This person ought to be cured of his terminal illness,” or “That one ought to be freed from the torment she’s going through,” and I begin to pray for those specific things. My heart is in the right place when I pray in such fashion, but those prayers are based on the supposition that I know a Higher Power’s will for the person for whom I pray. The program teaches me, instead, that I ought to pray that the will of a Higher Power—whatever it is—be done for others as well as for myself. Will I remember that my Higher Power is ready to befriend me, but only to the degree that I fully surrender my trust?

Today I Pray
I praise my Higher Power for the chance to help others. I thank my Higher Power also for making me want to help others, for taking me out of my tower of self so that I can meet and share with and care about people. Teach me to pray that “Thy will be done” in the spirit of love, which my Higher Power inspires in me.

Today I Will Remember
I will put my trust in the will of my Higher Power.

Quoted from the app A Day at a Time.

08/30/2023

Reflection for the Day
I’ll begin today with prayer—prayer in my heart, prayer in my mind, and words of prayer on my lips. Through prayer, I’ll stay tuned to my Higher Power today, reaching forward to become that to which I aspire. Prayer will redirect my mind, helping me rise in consciousness to the point where I realize that there’s no separation between my Higher Power and me. As I let my Higher Power flow through me, all limitations will fall away. Do I know that nothing can overcome my Higher Power?

Today I Pray
Today may I offer to my Higher Power a constant prayer, not just a “once-in-the-morning-does-it” kind. May I think of my Higher Power at coffee breaks, lunch, tea time, during a quiet evening—and at all times in between. May my consciousness expand and erase the lines of separation, so that the Power is a part of me and I am a part of the Power.

Today I Will Remember
To live an all-day prayer.

Quoted from the app A Day at a Time.

08/25/2023

Doing My Part

“The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard—one that thinks too much.”

—Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

The universe will help us, but we need to do our part as well. Here’s an acronym “My Part” to help you remember what it means to do that.

Manifest

Your

Power

Accept

Relax

Trust

Too often, we tell ourselves the only way to get from point A to point B—or Z—is to tense up, obsess a little (or a lot), and live in fear and anxiety until what we want takes place.

That isn’t the path to success. It’s the path to fear and anxiety.

Accept. Relax. Breathe. Let go. Trust yourself, God, and the universe to manifest the best possible destiny when the time is right for you.

God, help me make the journey from fear and control to letting go and stepping into my true power.

This inspiration is from
More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations.
© 2000 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved.

08/25/2023

Another one in the books!
Thanks to Laura Cristina Cruz for coming out and sharing her story with la familia tonight.
Proud of you! And, keep going
🙏🏾🤍💯

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Evolutions Treatment Center

08/24/2023

There is no greater weakness than stubbornness. If you cannot yield, if you cannot learn that there must be compromise in life—you lose.
— Maxwell Maltz

Glass is very hard, but fragile. By contrast, leather is tough and resilient. A blow to a glass dish will break it, but a blow to a shoe will just be absorbed. Our program leads us to avoid the folly of being hard like glass, and we become more tough like leather. We must endure surprises, pressures, and blows from the world as a normal part of life. The more able we are to absorb the blows, the stronger and more whole we are as men.
A friend who has a different opinion from ours can be listened to and his ideas considered. There is no need to compete with him or prove that we are right. When our plan for a project at work gets set aside, we will feel the frustration, but we need not come apart over it. Perhaps our Higher Power is leading us to a better plan. Frustrations with spouses or friends can be turned over to our Higher Power. We do not have a rigid recipe for life, and we must be open to more learning.
I will surrender my fragile stubbornness in exchange for the toughness I can learn in compromise.

08/23/2023

BRINGING THE MESSAGE HOME

Can we bring the same spirit of love and tolerance into our sometimes deranged family lives that we bring to our A.A. group?
TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, pp.111-12

My family members suffer from the effects of my disease. Loving and accepting them as they are just as I love and accept A.A. members—fosters a return of love, tolerance and harmony to my life. Using common courtesy and respecting others' personal boundaries are necessary practices for all areas of my life.

From the book Daily Reflections.
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

08/18/2023

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we were all in the same boat.
— Bernard M. Baruch

As we listen to others’ stories and tell our own, we see that there are many roads into this program. Some of us hit bottom. Others were spared the worst catastrophes, getting the message of recovery early. In the final analysis, we are all in the same boat with our powerlessness. The differences are superficial. There is no higher or lower status for anyone in our program. When it comes to the power of our addictions and codependencies, we are equally in need of help from our Higher Power.
Perhaps there was a time when we felt totally alone with our problems. But we were alone just like thousands of others needing recovery. Because we all have suffered and know our need for help, we can now have a caring and supportive group. We can turn to our brothers and sisters in the program knowing that they are in the same boat, and they will understand. No one else provides that kind of healing relationship.

I am grateful for the closeness I have with others who are in the same boat with me.

08/17/2023

Life is change . . .
Growth is optional . . .
Choose wisely . . .
— Karen Kaiser Clark
We can certainly count on change. We become fathers, our children become more independent, we make new friends, and other friends move away. When a man clings too tightly to the status quo or tries to control the direction of change, he is bound to be disappointed. We are like skiers on a mountain. We must continue down the slope. We can vary our speed somewhat, but if we stop for too long we will get cold or hungry; if we ski too fast, we may have a serious fall. Part of the pleasure is in not being able to control or predict every circumstance we will meet.
We don’t control which loved ones come into our lives and which ones go or whether we become ill or stay healthy. We don’t control life’s opportunities. We can control how we choose to respond to these transitions. Whatever happens can be used for growth, and we can commit ourselves to use all experiences that way.
Today, I will not try to control change but will choose to use whatever happens for growth.

Quoted from the app Touchstones.

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