“I love that the Recovery Center is a meeting place for friends and community to come together. It’s a place to establish friendships, a place to keep your sobriety. When I first walked in here, it was light and friendly, a lot of smiley faces. Makes you feel welcome. I just had a birthday. Sometimes when you’re having a bad day, your, I call the itty bitty shitty committee get across? So your head’s in a negative headspace, and I might be thinking about going to the bar and getting a free birthday drink, and instead I come to a meeting and then just share about it. I’ve learned in recovery that a problem shared is a problem halved. And by having the ability to say no to the big shitty committee, aka going bar hopping, I getting a free drink, I come Come to a meeting and share about it and they usually say, hey, me too. I like the ability to have people in recovery to pull you aside if you’re having a bad day and say hey, me too. The Recovery Center is such a great way to do a 180 on a negative day and remind you about gratitude, or remind you about friends that you do have, reminds you about why you’re in recovery in the first place.”

— Erica OBannon