Every once in a while, you need to just spend some time enjoying yourself. This becomes harder to do as people grow older, however. With not as much spare time to do what they like, people will find that spending an evening just full of fun is much harder to come by. With this considered, you should try to make the most of your free time when it does come around. Being able to enjoy even the little things is so important for your mental wellbeing. So once you get some free time, no matter how … [Read more...]
Recovery is a Journey…Enjoy the Trip
Recovery is a Journey...Enjoy the Trip. So how does your recover-strategy-goal-setting prepare you to enter into the journey of recovery? Say, you’ve had a heart attack, actually your heart has been attacked; not your physical, anatomical heart, but your breakable, emotional heart. The personal heart that grows weary, the hardened heart, the heartless one, the cold heart, the heart that aches, that stands still, that leaps with joy and the one who has lost heart; yes, your very human … [Read more...]
Freedom from Glass in Hand, WOMEN in RECOVERY
DECEMBER is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month National Impaired Driving Prevention Month focuses on both drunk driving and the growing problem of drugged driving. Drugged driving has been overlooked for a number of years, but research shows it may be responsible for more than 20 percent of car crashes. Below are some resources for your chapter to plan activities as part of this … [Read more...]
Safe Cities: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 2012
"Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls." Port Moresby is one of five pilot cities -- along with Quito, Kigali, New Delhi and Cairo -- participating in UN Women's Global Programme "Safe Cities Free of Violence against Women and Girls." Operating successfully since its December 2010 launch, the project, entitled "Port Moresby: A Safer City for Women and Girls," aims to develop, test, evaluate and disseminate a model that makes cities safer for women and girls. Port Moresby … [Read more...]