How to Stay Active in Recovery while social distancing by Primary Therapist Brianne Renley

In early recovery, I was repeatedly told by another person in recovery “no matter what, we don’t pick up.” With everything going on, it is important to remind myself that there is truly no situation that will be made better by following my addiction. We are all going through an interesting time right now. We all have a chance to grow from it. Recovery is about adapting. So that is what we are doing.

Here are some resources for everyone to keep their recovery going strong during the challenge:

AspenRidge Online Recovery Support Meetings

Every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 8PM:

https://www.facebook.com/events/201612831161251/ 

AA Grapevine

https://www.aagrapevine.org/

In the Rooms

https://www.intherooms.com/home/

AA Chats

https://aachats.org/

Live Online AA Meetings

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-s3EVFEuF6Z65Jsl4ICW6v0aliGCAcmWmkzAqXooWaI/htmlview#gid=0

S.M.A.R.T. Recovery Online

https://www.smartrecovery.org/smart-recovery-toolbox/smart-recovery-online/

Life Ring Online Meetings

https://www.lifering.org/online-meetings

Al-Anon Electronic Meetings

https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/electronic-meetings/

North Colorado AA

Get updates on in person meetings nearby.

https://www.northcoloradoaa.org/

Facebook – These groups are helpful for exchanging information and staying connected.

Northern Colorado AA Coronavirus Info

Happy Joyous and Free

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Reddit

This is an online collection of discussion communities. If you are unfamiliar with reddit, this article may be helpful https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/what-is-reddit/

Here are some great Reddit Communities.

/R/Stopdrinking – Alcohol support group

/R/Leaves   – support for quiting all THC related substances.

/R/Alanon

/R/Opiatesrecovery

Recovery Radio Network

Website or podcast with lots of speaker tapes and recovery discussions to listen to.

https://recoveryradionetwork.podcastpeople.com/?fbclid=IwAR1oF1MvsrE98kOZs7O9A0_OMyu1DB_OrU_Ub29b4IOM2EDVmim662epQlM

*you can also look it up on itunes

Spotify

AA Speaker Tapes