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Recovery Awareness Month

Director’s Message

Recovery Awareness Month
September is a month set aside in the US to raise awareness of Recovery, as well as mental health and suicide prevention. The need to learn and better understand the journey to recovery is so real today, as this touches every one of us. All of us know someone we love who may have in the past or may still be struggling with compulsive, unhealthy behaviors that contribute to brokenness in their lives. In fact, all of us as humans, experience sin in our lives, and together we are in the journey to recovery from our own sinful tendencies.

National Recovery Month (Recovery Month) (http://www.recoverymonth.gov), now in its 25th year in the United States, educates citizens that addiction treatment and mental health services can enable those with a mental and/or substance use disorder to live a healthy and rewarding life. It aims at encouraging the gains made by those in recovery, just as we would encourage those who are managing other health conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.

Info for use in the web, social media, and other resources are available at SAMHSA’s National Helpline – 1-800-662 HELP (4357) and also on the resource link at our ARMin website (www.AdventistRecovery.org).

Adventist Recovery Ministries would like celebrate with each of you who are experiencing the power of Christ in your journey to wholeness! Many of you have regained your lives back by working through each of the 12 steps and by embracing God’s restorative love and power in your lives. Praise God for surrendering your efforts in cooperating with Him!
We also would like to remind each of the Journey to Life readers who are struggling and who recognize their need for God’s intervention, that recovery in all its forms is possible. It is important for us to take this opportunity to continue to start ARMin ministries in every church in NAD. We pray that many of you who have not yet, may be impressed to take one of the many ARMin trainings scheduled in 2014 and 2015 and facilitate a group in your local church.

Let us celebrate together what God has done in our lives! Take a moment today to say a prayer of thanksgiving and rededication to God for “showing to us the path of life” (Psalm 16:11).

Katia Reinert, PhD, CRNP, FCN