Lotus House Sober Living

02/24/2025

✨ ONE YEAR IN THE BONUS ROUND ✨

This weekend, Lotus House had the privilege of celebrating:

NOT 1️⃣
NOT 2️⃣
NOT 3️⃣

BUT 4️⃣ residents who achieved ONE WHOLE YEAR OF RECOVERY ‼️❤️🔥

We are truly blessed to be apart of their journeys— to have watched them turn pain into purpose and fear into faith & fortitude! Witnessing the miracle of recovery, of God’s Love & Grace, is the stuff we live for. ❤️

LADIES, WE CLAP FOR THAT ‼️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

02/03/2025

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🖤
CELEBRATING BLACK EXCELLENCE 🎉🙌🏽
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JAMES BALDWIN

James Baldwin was a writer, activist, and social critic whose work explored race, identity, and justice in America. Through essays, novels, and speeches, he exposed the realities of racism and challenged the nation to confront its contradictions. His books, like The Fire Next Time and Go Tell It on the Mountain, combined personal experience with sharp social critique, making him one of the most influential voices of the civil rights era. Baldwin’s fearless honesty about race, sexuality, and power continues to inspire and challenge readers today.

James Baldwin’s work explores themes of pain, identity, and transformation—struggles that deeply resonate with addiction and recovery. His writing confronts the ways trauma, oppression, and personal battles shape a person’s life, much like addiction does. In The Fire Next Time, he speaks of facing hard truths, stating, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” This mirrors the journey of recovery, where healing begins with honesty and self-examination. Baldwin also wrote about escapism—how people numb pain through denial, substances, or societal illusions—while urging true freedom through self-acceptance and change. His work reminds us that both personal and collective healing require courage, truth, and a willingness to confront the past.

ONE OF OUR FAVORITE EXAMPLES OF BLACK EXCELLENCE‼️❤️🖤 🙌🏽🫶🏽👇🏽

01/20/2025

Today, we honor the late, great, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy. 🖤

He was a true champion of civil and social justice with an unwavering faith and commitment in the face of persistent adversity. A man for the people and their true advancement and equality, he fought valiantly to lead with love and to convey the message of unity. He was a man encompassing many of the principles we hope to embody ourselves.

In celebration of the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let us remember that one voice & one person has the ability to make a difference! Let his words remind us that no matter the size of the obstacle in front of us we MUST keep moving forward. 🙏🏽🖤 🇺🇸

01/18/2025

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01/08/2025

Lotus House got a special visit from Chucky Rosa from Chucky's Fight yesterday‼️❤️

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This guy right here has the toughest spirit with the kindest heart to match and we are SO GRATEFUL for his organization & all that they have done and continue to do for the community.

THANK YOU CHUCKY’S FIGHT ‼️

Check out this beautiful recovery blanket he gifted to our residents. No doubt it’ll be bringing warmth and smiles to the Lotus House ladies ❤️🙏🏽👇🏽

12/27/2024

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SCREAMING THIS FOR EVERY WOMAN FIGHTING FOR ANOTHER 2️⃣4️⃣ ❤️‼️🙏🏽

12/23/2024

POV: WHEN SANTA COMES EARLY‼️❤️
🎅🏼🎅🏽🎅🏾🎅🏿🎄
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The holidays can be an extremely difficult time for many of us - whether we are grieving loved ones, experiencing painful past and present family dynamics, or the wreckage of our past. We know these feelings all too well, and at Lotus House, we believe in spreading the Magic of Christmas through cultivating new holiday memories and participating in family traditions with each other ‼️

WE HAD A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & WE HOPE YOU DO TOO ‼️🎁🎄

12/19/2024

Fearless Leader / Case Manager Meghan & the Lotus House Ladies are getting in the Christmas spirit & gearing up for our annual Christmas Party 🎄 🎅🏼🎅🏽🎅🏾🎅🏿 🎄❤️‼️
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WE CAN HARDLY WAIT FOR SANTA ‼️❤️

12/16/2024

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Volume 10 is out! Everyone tries hard to be kind to others but lets not forget that kindness to ourselves can foster some great long-term growth! Stay strong!!

11/16/2024

🌟NHCORR RE-CERTIFIED🌟

We are beyond excited and proud to be re-certified with NHCORR as a Level III / Type S recovery residence! Meeting the NARR standard is always a major milestone we celebrate at Lotus no matter how many years go by! 🎉

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To be apart of an organization that is also dedicated to quality, ethical, and resident centered practices is a great accomplishment for us. Their unwavering commitment to our shared mission is unmatched and we are blessed to have had their constant guidance, and to have witnessed their fight for individuals in recovery.

THANK YOU NHCORR‼️❤️

11/14/2024

It’s between you, yourself, & God, girl! 🩷🫧

11/12/2024

GRATEFUL HEARTS 🧡 ✨

As part of our Gratitude in Action month at Lotus House we want to showcase an individual who embodies this ideal. Meghan, a Case Manager & Team Leader, has been with at Lotus House for multiple years. She has continued to be a pillar in our community giving back to those around her every single day. Meghan is a crucial part of our home and we are eternally grateful for her example & her recovery. Check out Meghan’s story & show her some love ‼️👇🏽

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Hello, My name is Meghan and I'm a recovering alcoholic and drug addict as of 06/30/2021.

My life has been spent always chasing the feeling of wanting to belong, and running away from my emotions. The one companion I always had was the faith that a drug or drink would make me content with life. Never feeling apart, until I picked up. Coming from a small town where it was normal to drink daily, I never knew that it was slowly progressing to take over my life. I thought after all of my years of drug abuse, and getting away from that lifestyle, that I could possibly be an alcoholic too. After shutting the door on drugs, and drinking again like I always had. I started drinking around the clock, and couldn't go a day without it.

During Covid-19 and the lock-down my disease really took off, I didn't have to show up for life, and that was okay. Those were the darkest days, and also when I experienced D.T's for the first time, I was physically and mentally dependent on alcohol. I had lost all control, before I even realized it, and I was spiritually drained. The love of my two children couldn't even keep me sober, and before I knew it, the family removed my two children from my care. That wasn't even my rock bottom. It took till the eve of my father's death due to complications from his alcoholism, where I saw my own certain death coming.

With persuasion from a dear family friend I agreed to go to treatment for the second time in my life. God willing it will be the last time, that is where my recovery journey began. I spent three weeks detoxing in the hospital, before I went to residential and then PHP and IOP. I took the suggestion to try sober living, and I never knew the gifts that would come from it would change my life for the better in so many ways.

I formed lifelong connections to women who inspire me every day. I am an active member of A.A., I sponsor women, and work with a sponsor, I work with women at different points of their recovery every day. I have a strong relationship with God today, the same God that I thought abandoned me long ago, was really by my side every step of the way. I have overcome a lot of medical complications from alcoholism, and have accepted the ones that I will have to manage the rest of my life. I find hope in every day, and knowing that by daily action towards my recovery, I have a daily reprieve from my addiction.

I have repaired relationships with my children, my brother, and close friends. I am the friend a person can count on, an employee an employer can trust, and I am a functioning member of society again. The promises have been being fulfilled around me, and I am living my answered prayers.

“By the grace of God if willingness was the key to unlock the gates of hell, then it is by action that opens those doors so that we can walk freely among the loving.”