Expanding Your Sober Life

Many people are under the mistaken impression that a life in recovery is dull, boring, and full of tiresome work. We often fear that the fun ends when the drugs and alcohol go away. Let’s think about that realistically. Odds are the fun had stopped long before we got sober. Now we are sober – […]

Rediscovering Yourself

Life is a journey, and for those of us who were addicted to drugs and alcohol, recovery is an incredible part of this whole adventure of being alive. Once, we were barely clinging to life. We were wrecked by our alcoholism and addiction. We missed out on many important parts of our lives, we let […]

Fully Immerse Yourself in Recovery

Recovery and meaningful sobriety are not processes that happen in isolation. A facility like Jaywalker Lodge is likely the place where an alcoholic and/or addict is introduced to recovery, but the activities, tools, processes, and healing therapies they learn should not be left there. If the recovery process is begun but then left behind, it […]

How Can I Stay Connected in Times Like These?

There’s no doubting that times are strange, and even sometimes scary for everyone. Whether in or out of recovery, the world definitely feels upside down right now. People feel separated and apart from each other in ways they’ve never experienced before. It can be an especially trying time for those in recovery. We can’t get […]

Surrender to Win

“Surrender to win” is a phrase that doesn’t make much sense at first glance. If we do understand it, it’s usually received as a pretty unpalatable proposition. As recovery literature says, “Who cares to admit complete defeat? Practically none of us…” The literature also says that defiance is the chief characteristic of most alcoholics. So […]

The Gift of Service

Service is not only one of the most important tenets of recovery, but it’s also one of the greatest gifts of sobriety. It’s not simply a gift we give to others – in many ways, it’s a gift that we receive as well. In our lives before recovery at Jaywalker Lodge, many of us were […]

Finding Brotherhood in Recovery

A life of alcoholism and drug addiction can distance people from their loved ones. Friends, family, and a sense of community are commonly pushed away by our shame, resentment, behavior, or a combination of things. We often attempt to adopt a “lone-wolf” mindset and try to convince ourselves that we like being on our own. […]

Why Is a Home Group Important?

After years of being immersed in our disease, we can become accustomed to drifting through life. We often shirk responsibility and commitment. At the very least, when we do things, we are likely to choose to do them alone. We get used to feeling unwelcome anywhere, or too ashamed to show up at the places […]

Continuing to Walk the Steps

So many of us who enter recovery at Jaywalker Lodge don’t know what to expect. We only know we want freedom from our disease. We can find that freedom in recovery, in addition to so much more than we could have ever imagined. Sometimes, however, we may see entering a sober facility as a break […]

Seeking More Than Sobriety

When we seek out the rooms of recovery, we usually have no greater wish than to free ourselves from the miserable bonds of alcoholism and addiction. We just desperately want to stop losing ourselves to the disease and ruining our lives. We find Jaywalker Lodge and join a tight-knit recovering community that understands us. We […]