Sharings from the Wellness Blog

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The Recovery Center has four trained SoulCollage® facilitators and offers a variety of classes that incorporate the use of SoulCollage® to facilitate recovery and wellness.  SoulCollage®, especially helpful for working on emotional, spiritual, and social wellness, is one of the most popular activities at the Recovery Center.  It is also one that has had a significant impact on members’ recovery.  Below are a few comments about how SoulCollage® has enhanced individuals’ recovery and wellness.

“It helped me to solve problems that I was having, to make decisions I needed to make, and to get thru stress I was having.”  Elaine

 “SoulCollage taught me that there are many pathways to recovery and that there is no right or wrong way – just your way.  I enjoyed tapping into my creative spirit in the class, I discovered many things about myself, including that I am capable of doing a lot more than I ever thought I could.”  Alison

 “My involvement opened my heart, eyes, mind, and views mainly about my actions and thought patterns.  I definitely took a new open-minded look at myself.”  Terry Carter

“My SoulCollage helps me by keeping me calm.”   Mike

 “It helps me realize what my true nature is.  It gives me something fun, meaningful, calming to focus on.”  Alyson

"Honestly, it’s beyond words, but the process & my involvement has been and continues to be liberating.  It’s helped me to remember and honor myself in a safe and healing way.  I developed a deeper level of compassion for others, a connectedness, and healing.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for the gift of self-discovery.”  Carmen

Keith Clary

I am one who likes science and space exploration

I am one who from experience,

knows how controlling,

and self serving women can be.

They are hard to figure out at times

Eric Falstrom

I AM ONE WHO loves music and to sing like a bird

and soar through space over icy waters like an eagle that way,

albeit in lower keys as I get older,

often stubborn as a bear in the desert sands

amidst pools of water

I AM ONE WHO renders male and female ascending via skid

ladder/bridge/pathway, proceeding cautiously into the world up

and beyond the green and icy mountains

Terry Carter

I am like the polar bear, alone except for

his environment and a distant elk who neither the two

see or connect with...

I am one who is in a dark frozen in time type of environment,

in a velvet and blue swirling mass of clouds

and challenges. My foreground tree of life struggles

to survive in such a harsh, foreboding,

cold environment.

Carmen Mumphrey

I am one who is birthing new and creative ideas.

I am free. I look ahead freely because

life is eternal and filled with Joy.

I am one who is ready to charge ahead.

I'm ready for new challenges,

so now is the time to begin!

Eric Falstrom

Contrasting terrains, life in the cold, flightlessness, wild,

building up like skids amidst treacherous rockiness,

looking up to heavens for hope

Male and Female ascending via skid ladder/bridge/pathway,

proceeding cautiously into the world up and beyond

the green and icy mountains

Carmen Mumphrey

I am one who sees with loving eyes that no one

can ever hurt me. I release anger in harmless ways,

so there is no guilt and no punishment. I am courageous.

I am one who chooses to climb out of the

mundance circumstances of my life.

I relax knowing the wisdom of life

takes care of details.