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In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer suggestions on how to use a gratitude journal to practice gratitude and reverse the harmful effects that life's challenges and traumas have made on our well-being.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we help clients discover and exercise their authentic power—offering them options and choices, even small ones, to help them reclaim control over their lives.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we highlight an RCCS Conversation Guide that program staff can use to help individuals identify their current strengths and steps to take to grow additional strengths for their future.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we review the mindfulness skill “Stop, Breathe, and Think,” along with other strategies for managing emotions that may obscure our wisdom and ability to stay on the middle path – our wise mind.

In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer staff ideas on supporting clients and members on the recovery journey as they heal from past hurts and traumas.

In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we explore the concept of "grieving impairments" and discuss practical ways to overcome them to provide meaningful support to those facing grief and loss.

In this month's RCCS Tidbit, we offer ideas on setting boundaries with others that can help you maintain a balance between assuming the best of others while being transparent about your needs and safety.

This Women’s History Month, we wanted to focus on the theme: Providing Healing and Promoting Hope. This pandemic has had an extraordinary impact on women’s health and wellness — primarily on women of color and the LGBTQIA+ community. This month, we wanted to share some history and resources to help support wellness for anyone who identifies as a woman.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit of the Month, we pause to recognize and celebrate individual uniqueness. In the RCCS, we highlight uniqueness as a part of our recovery culture. We strive to see people as unique individuals and be aware not to see people in terms of categories or labels. We choose to listen and ask questions and not assume. Finally, we value the diversity of the individuals we work with and serve. These values and behaviors are important to all people and communities.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we focus on skill building towards interdependence. We provide two RCCS Conversation tools for you to use to explore the development and maintenance of respectful boundaries with yourself and others.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we offer a RCCS Conversation Guide to help you identify areas in your life you feel like you have authentic power— as well as areas in their life where you feel you have little control. Find steps to address these areas and more inside this post!

As we begin the new year, what do you hope for in 2021? Use the practice inside this post to identify things that you envision for your future and explore your imagination.

The practice of gratitude is important in maintaining our resilience and our ability to manage extreme emotions. Learn the many benefits of gratitude and use the prompts inside this post to start a regular gratitude journal.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we focus on change and the stages of change. We explore ways of supporting others as they think about and prepare for change. Read more about finding and moving through the stages of change inside this post.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit we share tips on getting in touch with and deepening our awareness around empathy.

This month’s RCCS Tidbit helps us to reveal our strengths, identify others we may wish to develop, and think about how we might use strength to help others as we travel through this life transition together.

Human beings are social animals. Our brains are structured to be in a relationship with others. Having people or other important connections in our lives creates opportunities and enhances our recovery.

How can we reduce our judgments of others and strive towards a judgment-free culture? To decrease judgment, we should strive to increase curiosity. Being curious demonstrates a willingness to better understand others and give others permission to know and understand us in a deeper way.

Our identity is shaped by our childhood, our life’s experiences, our communities, and the people we choose to spend time with. How we see and describe ourselves today is different than how we would have described ourselves years ago, and parts of our identity will be different years from today than it is now. By defining our desired future identities, we can make choices today that can lead us in the direction we want to go.

Since 1949, May is recognized in the United States as Mental Health Month. Each year, advocates work together to sponsor community awareness events like NAMIwalks to educate the public about mental health. At ɫ��ɫ, we believe that mental health conditions are important to discuss year-round, but highlighting them during Mental Health Month (or Mental Illness Week in October) provides a dedicated time for mental health advocates across the country to come together as one unified voice.

Resilience is about the ability to maintain a stable equilibrium — to “bounce back” and return to wellness after a challenging event. It is a powerful tool in recovery, strengthening with life’s twists and turns and bringing us to the present moment. Even if you are still feeling sadness, pain, or hurt from an event — you are resilient and stronger because of it.

In this month’s RCCS Tidbit, we explore the idea of independence. Sometimes, being independent means knowing who or what you can depend on in times of struggle or new situations. This month, we offer a practice for exploring what independence means to you and what it truly looks like.