Recovery Works Healing Center, LLC.

Recovery Works Healing Center, LLC. Outpatient Alcohol and Drug, Mental Health Treatment Centers. Medical Assisted Treatment available. Outpatient mental health & addiction counseling

08/04/2025

Outpatient Alcohol and Drug, Mental Health Treatment Centers.
Medical Assisted Treatment available.

08/04/2025

The Price You Pay If You Want to Play

There's no proper way to prepare for going to war. You're over there - Afghanistan, Bagram, Iraq - and it's 24/7 constant fear. No matter where we'd go, to chow hall or wherever, we were getting mortared or rocketed.

So a lot of us used alcohol to cope. Not exactly a healthy coping skill, but it's what was available at the time. After a night of drinking, you'd wake up the next day and try to do your job, but you're still in this drunken haze. A lot of us were doing the same thing. I guess we just figured it was the price we had to pay if we wanted to play.

I just wanted to feel normal, and the only way I could was to get slightly intoxicated. It takes away some of the anxiety. It kind of brings you to the point where you don't care about much of anything. So it changed the experience by letting you escape reality. You'd get a buzz on and just sort of numb out. At the time, I didn't know how dangerous that was.

Today I celebrate my "new normal" - a life free of the bonds of alcohol, in which I can safely feel again.

~Kenneth B., U.S. Air Force, 2001–2007

08/03/2025

Be Yourself, Unapologetically

I think that recovery is in large part about getting to that place where we accept who we are so fully that we stop apologizing for who we aren't. Not that we claim perfection, but rather we live our lives knowing that our imperfections are what make us interesting and what make us unique. The brilliant actor Viola Davis is quoted as saying, "You can't be hesitant about who you are."

Yet, we do hesitate, don't we? We don't always bring our full, imperfect selves to the party of life. Or when we do, we feel obliged to apologize for not being or doing enough—or, for some of us, for being too much. How many times a day do you say "I'm sorry" for something? No, seriously, I think you should do the count one day. And then reflect on how many times you said "sorry" because of something you believe you are or did that needed an apology. Write about it.

I'm sorry, not sorry. For being me.

08/01/2025

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.

07/31/2025

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure 'til you know there is no hook beneath it.
~Thomas Jefferson

Pleasure is important in recovery. But at times we think pleasure is the answer to life's pains. Alcohol and other drugs were what we liked best. We need to watch out so we don't switch to another addiction - such as gambling, food or work.

The real answer to life's pains is in having a strong spiritual center. It is also our best way to avoid another addiction. As we find our connection to our Higher Power, our spiritual center strengthens. We no longer have to hold our pain inside ourselves; we can give it to our Higher Power and focus on healing. Our program can help us with our problems too. Recovery is a three-way deal - Higher Power, program, and us.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me avoid another addiction. When I have problems, have me come to You and to my program before anything else.

Action for the Day
Today I'll set aside time and ask the question "Am I headed for another addiction?" I'll also ask my sponsor this question.

07/30/2025

One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone.
~Ida Scott Taylor

It's not always easy to understand that the day stretching before us is all that counts. Daydreaming about the party last week, or getting upset all over again about a fight we had yesterday with a friend doesn't help us right now. When our minds are on the past, we miss out on the conversation or the activity that is going on around us.

Every moment of the day is special, and guaranteed to help us grow and understand life. All of us have been taught to pay attention in school, or to pay attention when others talk to us. But we should also pay attention to the birds, the sky, even the grass. And we can learn a lot by paying attention to the conversations going on around us, and to the small voice inside us that helps us know right from wrong.

What's going on today is enough to pay attention to.

Am I ready to pay attention to what is around me today?

07/29/2025

AA Thought for the Day
When we first came into AA, a sober life seemed strange. We wondered what life could possibly be like without ever taking a drink. At first, a sober life seemed unnatural. But the longer we're in AA, the more natural this way of life seems. And now we know that the life we're living in AA - the sobriety, the fellowship, the faith in God, and the trying to help each other - is the most natural way we could possibly live. Do I believe it's the way God wants me to live?

Meditation for the Day
I will learn to overcome myself, because every blow to selfishness is used to shape the real, eternal, unperishable me. As I overcome myself, I gain that power which God releases in my soul. And I will be victorious. It is not the difficulties of life that I have to conquer so much as my own selfishness.

Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may obey God and walk with Him and listen to Him. I pray that I may strive to overcome my own selfishness.

07/28/2025

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William Arthur Ward

We could never have arrived at this point in our lives without the help of a lot of other people. It has been said that we stand on the shoulders of all those who have gone before us. But we've also benefited from many people in our lives who were kind, who believed in us when we didn't believe very strongly in ourselves. We've benefited from the anonymous multitude of men and women who shone a light on the path to recovery.

Sometimes we know within our hearts that someone made a big difference to us, but it is hard to admit it to that person. We may even develop a grudging attitude toward people who have helped us because we are stingy about giving them any credit.

The surprising thing about gratitude is that the more we express it, the larger it grows. As grown men, we all have a mountain of things and people to be thankful for. If we don't express gratitude, our withholding diminishes us. The more we say it and give it away, the bigger and stronger we feel.

Today, I will thank someone who has helped me.

07/27/2025

I don't train for a marathon when I simply want to run five-mile races.
~Patricia Roth Wuertzer

Our insecurity, our fear that we're inadequate, pushes us to overextend ourselves. We spent many years using alcohol and other drugs rather than fulfilling our dreams and aspirations. We may try to make up for lost time by demanding too much of ourselves now.

Making some progress every day is the best way to succeed at our goals. We'll discover almost immediately how good it feels to say we'll do something and then do it. But we must be wary of the compulsion to do too much. We're still addicts or alcoholics, after all.

Life is a process. Recovery is a process. Every day we get chances to learn whatever we didn't master yesterday. No one is keeping score. Let's ease up, make some progress, and leave time to smell the roses.

Today I'll remind myself that I don't have to complete a big project every day. Making some progress is enough.

07/25/2025

The Blues

How do you know when you've hit bottom? When you stop digging!
~Anonymous

We learn in recovery how to deal with the down times. Our program constantly reminds us that we hit bottom when we stop digging. Therefore, we can stop a downward spiral by simply letting go and letting God and our friends help us. Our Higher Power and the program will provide a ladder with which we can crawl out of our hole. We just need to remember to use the ladder.

God will never take away our free will. If we use our will to do the business of our Higher Power and work the Steps, we will be surrounded by love and have strength. It is when we sometimes use our free will to do the bidding of our own ego and set expectations too high that we fall into a bottomless pit.

Working with and helping others is the basic "ladder" at my disposal when I deal with the blues and down times. So I always keep in touch with my fellow travelers.

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