It’s a Boy
Jaywalker would like to congratulate residential technician and alum, Ed Milos, on becoming a father yesterday! Jaxson Zachary Milos was born at 4:12pm weighing in at a meaty 7lbs 4oz. He’ll be on a pair of ice skates in no time! Congratulations Ed! Donnie Hagenbart Program Coordinator Jaywalker U
Goal Sunday at CMC
Colorado Mountain College will be joining other colleges across the nation on Sunday, February 9th when they host their first COLLEGE GOAL SUNDAY. The purpose of this event is to answer questions about financial aid and to help students and families fill out the FAFSA form. (The FAFSA can be a very cumbersome and time […]
New Orleans 2014
A mouth full of gold, jailhouse tats, and a broken story from a mended man. Bobby G. shared his climb from the bowels of Angola to the horizon of his possibilities. His addict menace had broken him down to a shell of a man. 8 years of cell block endurance, 2 of those in solitary. […]
Rocky Mountain Hospitality
Jaywalker Lodge has the pleasure of hosting many professionals from around the treatment community. On this beautiful Saturday afternoon Jay Staples, the director of marketing from Burning Tree in Texas, joined John Schneier and Donnie Hagenbart in some good ol’ Colorado mountain snowmobiling! We took Jay up to the Flattop Mountains, high above Glenwood Springs, where […]
Reunited with the Jaywalker Family
Up until three months ago my life had become overtaken once again by the beast of addiction. I had become a cripple on a couch. Another job lost and a lot of strained relationships. I was fearful to do anything except get to a liquor store. I had been beaten once again into submission. I […]
Winter X Games
The Winter X Games are here! The Winter X games started today at 11am and will be going through the weekend here in Aspen. This is the 13th year the Winter X Games has been held in Aspen and it looks as though Aspen Skiing Company will hold the rights until 2019. The acute intoxication […]
Motivational Interview Training
The stages of change are a model of ‘how to think’ rather than ‘how to do’…they describe attitudes, intentions and behaviors related to tasks of change”. Change is hard. It can seem impossible and certainly evokes fear and anxiety. As in any aspect of life, of living, changing the way in which we do things […]
Sober Superbowl Party
The Jaywalker Alumni Department is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Superbowl Party on February 2nd at the Alumni Clubhouse ( 1154 Hwy. 133, next to The Blend coffee shop). The festivities will begin at 4 PM and continue until the end of the game. We will be providing tons of food […]
“Contempt before Investigation”
There is a principal which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance – That principle is contempt prior to investigation.” – Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer is one of my Recovery heroes. Although he wasn’t part of the Recovery movement his […]
Kim Nuzzo Celebrates 28 Years
Kim and I met in November of 1991 in Aspen. We had both been hired by the Aspen Counseling Center. We shared an office together for fifteen years. We worked as co-therapists in an IOP program. We both loved our work and our new home- Aspen. A unique close bond grew over the years. In […]
