The Moral of the Story: Don’t Lose Hope

Nobody ever said the recovery journey was going to be easy. It’s a life-changing process that detoxifies your body, refreshes your mind, and rejuvenates your soul for the years ahead. A process like this certainly deserves the required time, attention, and effort. There’s no doubt that alcohol and drug addiction can be harmful in many […]

A “Much More Important Demonstration of Our Principles” Lies Ahead

For those of us alcoholics and addicts who have been blessed enough to find ourselves in recovery, we most likely already know that working the 12-Steps on a daily basis can provide us with a daily reprieve from our alcoholism and addiction. Maybe we just wanted recovery to get sober, but now there’s all this […]

Take the Hero’s Journey

Life itself is a journey with many stages. Each of us is the hero of our own story. We are the main character in the movie of our life. The road from active alcoholism and addiction isn’t a movie though – it’s a very real, living nightmare. Going from addiction to recovery is a journey […]

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 […]

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 […]