Having Fun Sobriety by Kelly Kettle
Jerry Bigelow (pictured) takes our clients an a wide variety of fun and esteem building activities from museum trips to Disneyland to softball and bowling.
Kelly Kettle has this to say about having fun in Sobriety:
The program of Alcoholics Anonymous gives us the great news that there is a solution for alcoholism though it is honest enough to also remind us that almost none of us liked the amount of inner work that the process requires to achieve successful completion.
That is one of the reasons why I love Sober Living by the Sea so much. "SLBTS" is a 12-step based program that teaches balance in a person's life who is new to recovery. People who are new in sobriety are often unable or unwilling to use a recovering person's greatest tool which is to help another suffering alcoholic or drug addict. Most of us who have been in the program of recovery for a long period have learned that helping others is an essential tool to help a recovering person "get out of one's self."
Our activities Director Jerry Bigelow (pictured) has made it his mission goal to make sure that each and everyone of our clients,are having fun in sobriety ,going on activities 5 to 6 days a week , Ball Games, Disney Land, Knotts Berry Farm, L.A.Studios , Museums, Sea World, ect , ect. These activities allow the clients who are moving along successfully in their recovery to interact with the ones who are new or struggling with the process.
The program of recovery is a program of attraction rather than promotion. The wonderful thing about it is that spending our time being active and building fellowship with other recovering people is the vital ingredient for balance and happiness. These stimulating and physically strengthening experiences help us build momentum toward sobriety and keep us on a sober path - which is not necessarily all "peaches and cream."
