Mountain Pass Recovery

11/20/2025

Today, our residents encountered all the animal totems in this month’s nature excursion.

11/12/2025

The MPR garden produced a lot of chilis this year. Last night, our residents learned about the fermentation process and and started their own hot sauce batches.

11/05/2025

We’ve got a great view of the Beaver Moon from our living room

11/03/2025

Emotions/Emotion Regulation.
Emotions are crucial in navigating everyday life. Many of life's problems can be solved or eased by better emotional awareness/regulation.

"I need a drink after that"
"The day I've had.."
"She made me so angry"
"He had such road rage .."
"It's like treading on eggshells coming home from
school/college/work''...

Emotional awareness is key to emotion regulation.
Emotion regulation is a core relapse prevention skill.

Not needing to change the way we feel with anger outbursts, unhealthy lifestyle choices :drink, drugs, feeding our feelings, overeating, spending, shopping, gambling, other forms of self harm/unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Most of us have a more than reasonable grasp on emotional literacy.

We know that we need the so called ' negative emotions' as much as the feel good 'positive emotions'.

If we've never experienced sadness then we wouldn't know joy.
[ ie :the movie Inside Out and its sequel].
Yet still we go about our day, or many of us do - blaming external issues for rising levels of stress, overwhelm, reactivity.

It doesn't have to be this way.

[Image credit : Brene Brown who adapted the seminal work of Wilcox, Plutchik & Zinker]

11/03/2025

Our residents are getting into the season with Sheppard’s pie & Zombie paintball

10/27/2025

10/22/2025

Sobriety is a start.

Connection makes it last.

💙 Learn more about how certified recovery housing makes that possible at tnarr.org

10/14/2025

10/13/2025

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10/06/2025

Last night our community enjoyed Meatloaf & the fixin’s, and then the great Mike S. Served up some experience, strength & hope for dessert.

09/18/2025

We celebrate the extraordinary life and legacy of Susan O. Binns, founder of the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences. Her vision transformed recovery housing and helped thousands of people find hope and healing.

Read Susan’s story at https://www.tnarr.org/post/susan-o-binns-a-legacy-of-service

09/17/2025

NARR Summit 2025