March Newsletter

Issue 3- March 2022

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Recovery Café Frogtown is a refuge for Healing and hope, helping people transform their lives.

On March 17th, join us for our first Annual Sober St. Patty’s Day Celebration

We are open every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00am until 3:00pm.

March Member Highlight: Thomas (Tommy) Moryn

Tommy’s favorites:

Color- Purple ; Sport- Track

Food- Spaghetti

Movie- All the National Lampoon movies

Song- “Out of my hands” Jeremy Camp

Tommy has many hobbies. Some of which he has shared with us at the Recovery Café. These are some of his Hobbies: Driving his motorcycle; Metal detecting; Jewelry Design; Drawing Cars; Stone sculpting; Tree Trimming; Driving my motorcycle; Music; Dancing.

If Tommy could live anywhere, it would be in New Mexico.

Tommy’s Heroes are his Sponsor and his Mentors.

When asked what would you change about yourself, Tommy replies, “I am changing now”!

Three words that best describe Tommy are Helpful; Giving; and a Willing Heart.

When asked, how has recovery Café Frogtown made a difference in your life? Tommy says: Taught me how to understand more.

Thanks to Tommy for being a great member of Recovery Café

Frogtown and for sharing that “Willing Heart” with all of us here! We Love You!

And thanks for letting us take your photo here!!

Hello Recovery Cafe Frogtown Community,

Please click on the attachment for our March Newsletter:RECOVERY café

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On March 15th at 1:15pm at the Recovery Café (499 Charles Ave) we will have a free training for the administration of Naloxone, the medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. This training covers basic naloxone pharmacology, recognizing overdose symptoms, and different administration types (intramuscular/IM and intranasal/nasal applicator).

Our regular schedule for March:

Tuesday Thursday

10:00-11:00am Fellowship Fellowship

11:00am-12:00pm Bible Study Meditation/exercise/yoga

12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch Lunch

1:15pm-2:00pm Ted Talk Tuesdays Music Therapy

2:00pm-3:00pm Recovery Circle Recovery Circle

Recovery Café invites individuals who want to be part of a healing recovery community to become Members. Members commit to:

1 Be drug and alcohol free the past 24 hours.

2 Participate in a weekly Recovery Circle* (online or in-person).

3 Participate in any type of community service at the Café or elsewhere.

Recovery Circle is from 2:00 to 3:00pm and members commit to come on either Tuesday or Thursday.

*(see explanation of Recovery Circles at end of newsletter)

What happens at the Recovery Café Frogtown:

FREE Membership

Recovery Circles

Social Gatherings that enrich and empower each other

Sports, Arts, Music, Yoga, Meditation, Games and organized events

Access to and support with Resources to Jobs, Childcare, Housing, etc.

If you are interested in learning about membership, you can visit us any Tuesday or Thursday between 10:00am and 3:00pm as a guest

What is the recovery café Model:

The Recovery Café model begins with the understranding that every human being is precious and worthy of love regardless of past trauma, mental and emotional anguish, addictive behaviors or mistakes made. The model is a membership based model requiring commitments that are held through loving accountability.

If you are interested in donating to Recovery Café Frogtown, please click here.

*RECOVERY CIRCLES

Recovery Circles are a crucial facet of our service delivery model, designed to prevent relapse by reducing social isolation, providing positive modeling behaviors, encouraging honest feedback, and increasing emotional support.

At our core, every one of us needs to love and feel love, to feel a sense of belonging, and to know that our life matters. Recovery Circles foster and feed this, breaking down despair, loneliness, and hopelessness and creating relationships, access to resources, hope, and healing.

Recovery Circles are small groups, 6-10 people, that meet weekly for one hour to check-in, share the highs and lows of their recovery journey, and share resources. Recovery Circle attendance is one of Recovery Café’s requirements for membership

Each circle is led by a facilitator. Our circle facilitators are a combination of Recovery Café Members, staff, and volunteers. All facilitators have gone through recovery coach training to best meet the needs of their circle Members.

Members are expected to attend the same weekly Recovery Circle and call in ahead of time if they can’t make it. This consistency and accountability help Members practice healthy behaviors in a space that allows for mistakes and growth.

Recovery Circles are how Recovery Café stays intimately connected with our Membership. No one person on staff can know all of our Members at any given time, but every Member is known by someone; their Recovery Circle facilitator.