The Empowerment Center

01/25/2024

01/23/2024

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
-C.S. Lewis

01/23/2024

The Empowerment Center is proud to partner with the UNR School of Social Work's Field Education program!

Since 2022, we’ve been working with interns pursuing both Masters and Bachelors degrees. Each student is given a list of local organizations to choose from and applies for positions matching their values and interests. This past semester, we’ve been grateful for Amy Aranda’s and Brianna Bedient’s help as they’ve completed their internships with TEC.

For more about Amy and Brianna and their work with us: https://empowermentcenternv.org/our-partnership-with-university-of-reno-nevada-school-of-social-work/

08/31/2023

Too cute 🥰

09/26/2022

Congratulations, Roxanne!
Over the weekend The Empowerment Center attended the Recovery Gala held at The Renaissance Hotel in downtown Reno, NV. There our Director, Roxanne DeCarlo was awarded the "People's Choice Award."

This is what she had to say: "This award was meaningful because there was a time when no one talked about addiction or mental health. Now people are talking, lives are changing and this is something to celebrate."

09/21/2022

We rise by lifting others. Read that again.

09/21/2022

We had a great time celebrating sobriety at the Sober Gala, hosted by Dry Society Social Club.

Our Director, Roxanne DeCarlo was awarded "People's Choice".

"This award was meaningful because there was a time when no one talked about addiction or mental health. Now people are talking, lives are changing and this is something to celebrate ."

Here's to many more years of people talking about all the good The Empowerment Center is doing in Reno, NV. Please Like and Share this post to help us celebrate. 🎉 🎉

09/19/2022

We offer Art and Crafts for our ladies on Balck out every Friday. This is what they made last week.

09/19/2022

Always be gretaful for what you have.

09/16/2022

Friday Prayer'
Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created. Esther 4:14

09/16/2022

You need to stop being mad at the people sucking the life out of you if you keep giving them the straw.

09/16/2022

SAME, Clint. Same.

09/16/2022

Let’s talk about prevention. Our hope is that we never have to meet your children through our program.

Learn more at jtnn.org.

09/09/2022

September 09, 2022
Feet of clay
Page 263
"One of the biggest stumbling blocks to recovery seems to be placing unrealistic expectations on... others."
Basic Text, p.82
Many of us come into Narcotics Anonymous feeling pretty poorly about ourselves. By comparison, the recovering addicts we meet at meetings may seem almost superhumanly serene. These wise, loving people have many months, even years of living in accordance with spiritual principles, giving of themselves to others without expecting anything back. We trust them, allowing them to love us until we can love ourselves. We expect them to make everything alright again.
Then the glow of early recovery begins to fade, and we start to see the human side of our NA friends and sponsor. Perhaps a fellow member of our home group stands us up for a coffee date, or we see two oldtimers bickering at a committee meeting, or we realize our sponsor has a defect of character or two. We're crushed, disillusioned-these recovering addicts aren't perfect after all! How can we possibly trust them anymore?
Somewhere between "the heroes of recovery" and "the lousy NA bums" lies the truth: Our fellow addicts are neither completely bad nor completely good. After all, if they were perfect, they wouldn't need this program. Our friends and sponsor are ordinary recovering addicts, just like we are. We can relate to their ordinary recovery experience and use it in our own program.
Just for Today: My friends and my sponsor are human, just like me-and I trust their experience all the more for that.