Happy Birthday Lynn!!
Happy birthday to expedition director Lynn Sanson. Throughout the years Lynn has imparted his knowledge of outdoor recreation to countless recovering alcoholics and addicts. Lynn’s calm demeanor, encouraging attitude, and home-made jean shorts have helped many young men to fall in love with their lives in recovery through outdoor pursuits. The relentless pursuit of joy […]
Horsing Around
The Solutions men had an opportunity to engage in some serious Horseplay this week at Windwalkers in Carbondale. Windwalkers uses the movement, power and intuition of horses to enhance lives of those with both physical and mental challenges. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, though a relatively new field, has proven to help people discover new ways of […]
Building Community through Art
One of the primary desired outcomes of the Jaywalker Recovery Continuum is for our men to become “part of” rather than “separate from”. We strive to become part of something bigger than ourselves. Last week our men had the opportunity to be part of a huge community creative event on several fronts. The Carbondale Council […]
Saving Lives: Two wheels at a time!
A select few brave soldiers in recovery bore down upon the bike trails of Moab today, pushing their comfort zones to the brink. One pedal stroke after another drove the men up Amasa Back trail to the pristine vistas of the high desert. All you can eat pizza at Zax and a local twelve step […]
Jaywalker Opens Sober Living
Jaywalker has rounded out their open community model and continuum of care by adding Sober Living. This program will be offered in conjunction with the IOP program to offer clinical support as men step up, and out into school, work, and the community. Jaywalker Lodge will offer a 90 day Sober Living experience to graduates […]
From Snow to San Diego
After the first half of the spring semester comes to an end, the Jaywalker U students head to San Diego to wind down from their first semester back in college sober. Not only is this a great opportunity for the students to relax and take a break from school but also gives them a good […]
“LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT”
The Thunder River Theatre Company is presenting Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece, “Long day’s Journey into night.” The American playwright received the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1957 for this tragic portrayal of a family battling the insanity of addiction. “It is a very honest, sometimes funny, grueling look at the play’s dysfunctional family, and what has happened […]
Alumnus celebrates 3 years of sobriety
Jaywalker would like to congratulate alumnus, Ben M, on celebrating 3 years of clean time last week. Ben grew up in Philadelphia and Florida and at a young age started experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Ben struggled with addiction for the next 15 years until he found the recovery community. Ben had fallen in love […]
What is a man?
This week Dave Landers (pictured left), Ph. D. in educational counseling, brought a workshop to the men of Jaywalker on how their fathers influenced their view of what a man is and how we would like our future children to view us. Through recovery many of us have learned that sometimes our thinking can be […]
Chef Brian’s Thursday Cooking Class
Every two weeks Jaywalker Chef, Brian, spends an hour with the Jaywalker U men teaching them some of his famous recipes. Through our active addiction many of us lost our passions. Here at Jaywalker we try and help find these passions again and maybe even some new ones. Since becoming sober many of us have […]
