Simon House Recovery Centre is excited to celebrate its first Pow Wow community event in partnership with Closer to Home and the Calgary Police Service.
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Last month I spoke about connections as it was the month we celebrate Family Day. As I was thinking about connections, I was pondering how relationships change when one leaves their addiction behind and enters a new world of recovery.
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This month, members of the Simon House team travelled to Edmonton for the Metis Nations of Alberta Conference.
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While our brothers may not meet traditional definitions of family, whether nuclear, extended, or otherwise, the connections made here are undoubtedly family-like as brothers care for each other by sharing a common history, likes, and, most importantly, the goal of continual recovery.
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Simon House's Beds for Brothers Campaign received a welcome boost this month in the form of a donation from Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman via the Calgary Foundation.
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This month, Simon House Recovery Centre received a generous donation on behalf of the Gary Nissen Fund via the Calgary Foundation.
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When I was a student in Grade 6, I had a teacher who was a master storyteller and loved to use props to make her point. I remember when she brought balls of yarn to school and asked us to line up in two rows facing each other. We were all extremely curious.
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I was devastated. He had been one of my boys. This was the first drug-related death that I had experienced. With no support for how I felt, I resigned from my position two days before Christmas.
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Simon House is proud to announce a new partnership with Stonewall Recovery Centre, an addiction recovery program for 18–24-year-old people in the 2SLGBTQ+ community!
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Simon House Recovery Centre has been awarded $60,000 in Community Grant funding from the Calgary Foundation, to support the replacement of aging bedding & furniture onsite.
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His drinking caused him nothing but chaos. In a Montreal jail, he discovered that his drinking was now an avoidance strategy. By drinking, he could avoid seeing what he had become.
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you” – Anne Lamott
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Last month, Simon House Recovery Centre was proud to participate in local events supporting National Day for Truth & Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.
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What I loved about him was that in his simplicity, he was profound. I think his most famous quote was: “When I was a boy, and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
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Each of us has habits. For me, it is morning coffee, my daily exercise routine, and opening the blinds to let in the sun. We have routines, often from childhood, that form habits.
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“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time” – Marian Wright Edelman
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“Just because you have the right to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.” This is a powerful, ethical statement that, at least to me, is equal in weight to the shared belief that, “We find out who a person truly is when we know what they do, or how they behave when no one is watching.”
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It is important to note that treatment and recovery are not synonymous; graduation from a program does not ensure lasting recovery. One of the hardest things to do in early recovery is to find social connections with others. It is hard to reintegrate into ‘normal’ life when one is so used to drugs and alcohol being at the center of all their activities.
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If you’ve been to Simon House recently, you might have seen something new in the main foyer. It is a “Wall of Gratitude.” I love what our clients put on these 3x5 cards. One of these, which recently caught my eye, said, “I’m grateful for toilet paper.”
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If it were as easy as ‘just putting it down,’ no one would ever relapse. People don’t relapse because of a craving for a drug once that drug is physically out of their system. The decision to relapse is made by a completely sober brain – one that is still obsessing about using because the person is still struggling to live life successfully sober.
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