Mid Year’s Freedom Dream
We are at the end of Pride month as I write this. A month to Celebrate! who you are and who you want to be! It gets me going as I reflect back on the years.
In Pre-covery, I was waaay prideful, strutting around the city trying to be the me I wanted everyone to see. I often checked to see who was looking and more often than not, TWiCE! after tripping over my two left feet.
It was quite the debacle which was affirmed by someone I knew in the Lower East Side community that I was a part of at the time told me two years into my recovery that I used to “run rampant” around the neighborhood. So much time spent running away from and running to the imaginary oasis.
Every time I reached that proverbial mountain top, I would disparage it and realize it wasn’t what I wanted at all and again found myself defeated by an abyss of uncertainty, longing to find myself and (truthfully, it didn’t feel very prideful) a colossal lack of what I was looking to show off most. It didn’t feel much like pride, did it?
This all came to a halt as the daydream was intervened by Jimi Hendrix singin’ in my head:
Freedom,
That’s what I want now
Freedom, that’s what I need now
Freedom to live
Freedom, so I can give
Right on, straight ahead
Stay up and straight ahead
Freedom, so I can live it
Freedom, ’cause I’ve got lotta to give, baby
Freedom, so I can live, freedom
(Keep on pushin’, straight ahead)
And then I realized, it’s my Anniversary! That’s NOT my story today. I get to dream a new dream! Today, the dream is for me to keep stretching. Not just my body, but also my mind as well as my spirit. Continue growing into the next best version of me. What that looks like, I’m not so sure, but I am excited to find out! Now this sounds a little more Prideful !
A few days later, it’s about to be the Fourth of July and they say we’ve got freedom. At times I question this as it looks very different for all of us from time to time. At this moment, the simpler I keep it, the freer I seem to feel. How about you? What does your Freedom Dream look like?
NeWS FLaSH!! We have an exciting thing happening here at CHOiCE Recovery Coaching!
As part of the DPH/HRiA sponsored Redefining Community Wellness Grant, we are going to be providing the complete 60 hour Recovery Coaching Certification Training as well as a three month practicum, supporting people from underserved communities to become recovery coaches and supervise them so that they can then turn around and support individuals in their community! This program will span 4 ½ months! The minimum commitment is to complete the 60 hours of training and 6 hours/month for three months. We will begin one cohort in September and another in January. Train for a NEW career and grow your Recovery Capital while you’re at it ! All at NO COST !
Know anyone from an underserved community that who would make an awesome recovery coach?
Share this application link with them and let them know !
Redefining Community Wellness Application
We also have our Quarterly trainings beginning next week. Over 70 CE hours available on top of the base CCAR Recovery Coach Academy and Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches training, all supporting CARC, NAADAC and RCP Certification as well as Re-Certification credits.
If you want your skills to make a great impact on your community, we got you!
Last month, we gratefully presented our workshop, “Maximizing the Supervisory Relationship” at the Faces and Voices of Recovery’s National Recovery Leadership Conference in Denver, CO. It was great to see so many peers moving up the ranks into Supervisory and Leadership Positions across the Country! We have a full 18 hour “Peer Recovery Workforce Supervision” (including a mini 30 day practicum along with a supervisory call) Training with an additional 6 short 2 hour workshops that support Supervisors from our “Applied Coaching and Supervision” Series. The most comprehensive Peer Supervision Training available!
Next training is scheduled for the end of August.
Peer Recovery Workforce Supervision
Next week, we also have our monthly Recovery Coach Supervisor Support Group.
ALL Recovery Coachand Peer Supervisors welcome !
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