Submitted by Royal Recovery Resources on June 16, 2010

Royal Recovery Resources offers a structured living environment along with access to outpatient aftercare services based upon your level of need. We provide resources that will empower you to get the life you deserve. One of the keys to success is mutual community involvement and a sense of belonging. We want you to be PROUD of where you live, your housemates, and yourself. Being surrounded with people that are positive, supportive, and working hard to achieve many of the same goals, makes early recovery fun and successful. It is our goal to make all of this possible for you.

Programs for Growth in Recovery

Whether you have been a part of recovery in the past, are coming directly from treatment, or embarking on this journey for the first time, our resources, activities, amenities, aftercare services, and qualified support staff was created for YOU. They are the best you will find in any sober living community.

The first 90 days, especially the first 30 days, are the most difficult times in sobriety. The support, structure, and individualized services provided in treatment must be continued in a First Class Sober Living Environment. You have made an investment to gain your life back. You must continue investing in yourself and treat yourself with the Love, Support, Respect and Royal Services that are necessary to guarantee your success.

Our goal is to keep you active with every resource that you need so that you learn that you do not have to use substances to have fun.

We offer various outpatient treatment services that provide individualized structure that is geared towards creating your independence. The Treatment Provider accepts insurance. This provides the necessary gradual transition recommended by all treatment facilities. Whether it is PHP, IOP, Outpatient or Resource Trainings we have a solution for YOU!

We believe that your life is priceless and that there is no other way than the Royal Recovery Way.
Delray Beach, Florida is the ideal home for you to begin living your clean, sober, fun, successful lifestyle. Often you feel anxiety, fear, disconnected, and alone when entering a new environment. You are guaranteed to feel welcome by our friendly, caring staff and residents. Our staff also serves as mentors as they have a personal understanding of the unique struggles of addiction and many years of professional experience in addiction recovery.

We promote sober social involvement and FUN AND LAUGHTER IS REQUIRED. You will never be bored at Royal Recovery Resources. Our Community Townhome location was chosen for YOU to have access to shopping, dining, schooling, employment, volunteer opportunities, public transportation, 12-Step Meetings, entertainment, and the beach in the palm of your hands.

Submitted by BenBen The Fisherman on June 16, 2010

Submitted by aleece2008 on June 9, 2010

I was born in Garden City Michigan in June of 1980 to a single mother. My real father walked out when he found out that I was a girl and he wanted a boy. I was raised by my mother and her parents Wayne County Sheriff Duwayne Beauchamp and Marie Beauchamp and my Uncle Joe. Times from what I was told were tough. My mother was in college studying to become a Doctor after I was born and that took her away from raising me. But I still had a wonderful set of grandparents and an Uncle who dropped out of school to take on a full time job and help raise me.

I can remember very little but the three people I remember the most outside of the three that were raising me were my Great Grand parents and my Great Great Grandmother. I also remember that when I wanted something I got it. So I grew up spoiled and sheltered. My mother married Army Major David Pitmon who had 7 sons older than me from three previous marriages and my younger brother was born later on in 1985. I remember that my Step father was VERY over protective of me and spoiled me as well, but there was one memory that I wont forget. We were stationed in Germany and I remember that my Step father was drinking and he gave me a sip. I was only 6 years old and let me tell you I didn’t like that taste.

My mother and Step father started having problems and Divorced in 1989. I thought it was all my fault. My step father kept trying to reassure me that it wasn’t but my mother blamed me.

After my mother’s divorce we moved back to Lupton, Michigan (a very small town outside of Rose City and West Branch Michigan) where my mother began her career as a OB/GYN. I once again was pushed off on my grandparents (who were also Divorced). My mother started dating and moving guys in and there were ALOT of parties that went on and one of the guys that she was dating ended up moving in. This guy had a record of Criminal Sexual Conduct on Children (Molesting Children) and my mother knew about it but yet she still moved him in. Since she was gone constantly it gave the guy every opportunity to molest me and that began in 1991 and ended in 1992 when my grandmother pried it out of me because “I wasn’t acting right”. The guy was arrested and if he wasn’t he would have been killed for my step father and older step brothers heard about it and they wanted a piece of him.

My mother once again blamed me after the guy was sentenced to 7 years in Jackson Prison.

I began to take Lithium at the age of 13 because my mother told a child psychologist that I was getting out of control. I knew that my mother didn’t want to deal with the whole fact that she had to take care of me. I was removed from the lithium when I was 14 and by the time I was 16 I was drinking. I didn’t start using drugs until after my 1st son was born in 1999. Then that is when the partying started for me.

I moved back to my home city of Taylor and became a stripper and in late 2001 I was pregnant again. By this time my mother had custody of my older son. I soon moved to Florida and ended up in the strip clubs once again. I almost lost the baby during birth but he lived (THANK GOD) and he is a happy healthy 7 year old.

After my son was born I gave up drinking, and stripping to be a full time mother and student.
This time I was in a relationship with a guy that was using and we were together for four years and they were the hardest years of my life. We had a son in 2005 the same year that my grandfather passed away from heart disease.

In early 2006 I put a stop to the relationship knowing that it would hurt me and the kids. I left him because he was cheating on me and getting farther and farther into his drug addiction with a girl that I knew was supplying him (they are still together to this day).

He got the kids every weekend and this gave me time to party and meet up with different guys. I SERIOUSLY was looking for something to fill that void. I met one guy and 3 weeks later I found out that he was smoking crack and that ended the relationship. The second guy like to cheat so he had to go. The third guy was probably the best thing that happened to me but I kept lying to him on where I went on the weekends (poker and working back in the strip clubs) and when he found out the truth we separated it. That is when I met the guy who introduced me to the cocaine and I met him when I was working in the strip clubs. He wanted someone who was willing to take a chance and have some fun and well this began my drug addiction (full force), and the arrests.

I felt that the guy knew what was best for me and well I went along with EVERYTHING except prostituting myself for the drugs (I knew where to draw the line).

I took a charge for him and got stuck with a possession charge. The guy was locked up for Domestic Abuse and I was off into another relationship with someone else who bought me my drugs. I went to jail for a week in June 2007 and in July I jumped state with the guy and lived in Ohio for 7 1/2 months before I came back to Florida.

I was arrested in Feb 2008 and sentenced to Bridges of America in Auburndale, Florida. I only lasted 3 months out of 6 and was medically discharged with a knee injury that needed surgery. When I got out I thought that I was well enough to get my youngest son back from his father (who was and still actively using) only to have the father hide the child on me and DCF and the police were no help the ALLOWED my son to stay with his father knowing that the father and his girlfriend tested positive for drugs.

I met another guy and moved out to Tampa. By this time my mother prescribed me medication for my anxiety and I began to abuse them with the alcohol. The guy that I was seeing and living with knew something was wrong and well I was testing positive for Goodwill Outpatient. Soon after that I was sentenced back to the Bridge and well I was there for a month before I was transferred to Goodwill on Gandy Blvd. where I actually finished the inpatient program Successfully and now I am in the aftercare. I am still seeing the guy that I was with in Tampa but we are taking things slowly since he knows that I am putting NA before him. He is very supportive of me and well I am working on some things. I am looking at early termination from Drug Court in NOV 2009 and I am planning on going back to college to become a substance abuse counselor and I am working on getting my 7 year old back from my mother who has temporary custody and my 4 year old who is with his father. As my sponsor says everything comes in time and to take baby steps.

Submitted by MrClean on June 9, 2010

From http://lauracmusic.com : I started writing songs when I was around ten years old just to find out who I was, because I really didn’t know. Maybe because I was adopted.

Don’t get me wrong, I was brought into a warm, nurturing family and grew up feeling really safe and loved. I didn’t get screwed up until I got out into the real world.

I guess we’re all broken and filling the void in some way. I know for me, I spent over 20 years trying to fill that void with alcohol and pills. But all I did was numb myself. So I couldn’t feel.

Once I was broken open, I experienced emotions I didn’t even recognize at first. Despair. Anger. Hope. Joy. These were all strangers that made me uncomfortable. And they came at me with such intensity, I didn’t know what to do with them.

So I channeled them into my music.

The Gift of Brokenness started as a musical journey about my story, but what I’ve been told is that it really reflects the broken times we live in. Which is probably why everyone seems to see a bit of themselves in these songs.

Some have even told me that they found the gift in their own brokenness. As for me, the gift in my brokenness is that I was able to turn something shameful and ugly into something beautiful.

Thanks for letting me share my story and my music.

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Listen to Laura’s music on iTunes by clicking here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/where-i…

Visit Laura’s profile here: http://intherooms.com/lauracmusic

Submitted by RT on June 9, 2010

The InTheRooms Team (RT, MrClean, and TheDotMack) recently started hosting a show on Holistic Lifestyles Radio  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/HolisticHea…) each and every sunday night at 9PM EST.  We started this show so we can communicate with our members about various recovery related topics, keep you abreast of the latest InTheRooms news, and bring to you the best and latest in recovery entertainment.

If you’re in South Florida you can tune in on 1470AM, and everywhere else you can listen live online at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/HolisticHea…

The show is taped live every Sunday and we take calls from ITR members from around the world. Join us this Sunday for the latest episode of The InTheRooms Hour!

Submitted by BenBen The Fisherman on June 9, 2010

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GCASCNA Thanks for the Miracle XVIII “serenity is the key” Convention Fundraiser presents:
The Only Requirement”  June 12th 2010
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
151 West 5th st. downtown
cincinnati ohio
7pm 1am
speaker
“Big Girl Fashion Show” (size 14 and up) and dance to follow speaker
10.00 per person
NO CHILDREN PER HOTEL
CONTACT HENRY T. 513-351-0632 CHAIR
ANGIE W. 513-264-6277 VICE CHAIR

Submitted by RT on June 3, 2010

A powerful, ground-breaking book that shows you, in concrete steps, how to stop a loved one from engaging in self destructive behavior.

Stop your husband from drinking himself to death.  Don’t let your brother lose it all to gambling. Get your kid off drugs.  Motivate your best friend to lose weight.  Make your spendthrift brother-in-law stop maxing out his credit cards.  Get your sister out of an abusive relationship.  Erase anger in your co-worker.  If you’re tired of watching your spouse, child, relative, or best friend go downhill, dragging you with them, How to Change Someone You Love will help you turn their lives around.  You don’t have to endure behavior that is unhealthy, abusive, possibly deadly, and that threatens to unravel relationships.  You can change it.  Many books will tell you that you can’t change anyone.  They advise you not to even try.  The problem is, they ignore the tremendous power you actually have to change people.  If most books about change are written for the addict or troubled person, How to Change Someone You Love reaches out to the loved ones who know that change is critical and urgent.  How to Change Someone You Love is not just a self-help book; this is a help-you-act book.

“Brad Lamm’s step-by-step approach empowers families and friends to change their loved ones through compassionate, caring and continuing support.”– Dr. Mehmet Oz

From Publishers Weekly

In this self-help guide to helping, the founder of Intervention Specialists addresses the spouses, parents, and friends of addicts whose lives are out of control: “loved ones who know that change is critical and urgent.” Having struggled with drugs and alcohol himself, Lamm began the difficult road back to sobriety when a friend organized an intervention; here, the deeply dedicated counselor presents a four-step method based in his experiences on both sides of the process. Showing how easy it is for well-meaning people to fall into the power trap of “nagging, prodding, manipulation or threats,” Lamm details methods for successful intervention, using a group of friends and family to form an ongoing support group (a “circle of change”) that will confront the abuser as a first step (with “words of encouragement, truth… and the warm protective embrace of love”). Lamm also addresses inevitable setbacks, and the stress faced by members of the support group, with practical methods, anecdotal illustrations and a comprehensive resource guide. As a thorough guide to helping substance abusers find help, this makes a valuable addition to the self-help shelves.

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Brad Lamm’s book is available for purchase from Amazon.com by clicking here: http://www.amazon.com/How-Change-Someone…

Submitted by MrClean on June 3, 2010

Three nationally acclaimed comedians recovering from addiction and alcoholism

Boca Raton- Life experiences create incredible opportunities to educate, entertain and laugh till you cry.  A college major in art history, living in a convent in Ireland (yes, a convent) and cleaning urinals at the Pittsburgh Funnybone are a few of the experiences of Jesse Joyce and his ascension from addict to runaway hit stand-up comedian.  LUX Magazine states “Jesse Joyce is a man too charming for his own good.  And he’s funny…his brand of humor is his personality, just a natural way of looking at life that’s a little more skewed, just a little more shaded, a little more turned than the average person.”  Dick Cavett goes on to state about Joyce, “Wonderful!  Very funny!”.

Jesse Joyce will headline Recovery Comedy 2010 for four shows (7 PM & 9 PM both nights) Friday June 18th and Saturday June 19th at the Caldwell Theatre Company located in the Count de Hoernle Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, Florida, (877) 245-7432.  Mr. Joyce will be joined by Boca Native Steve Johnson, “gratefully recovering since 2006”, who states that his goal is “to bring laughter and light to as many…people as possible, and to sponsor Lindsay Lohan!”.  Additionally, Steve goes on to state that during his drug and alcohol destruction, “there was an organization called Mothers Against ME!”.

Rounding out Recovery Comedy 2010 in Boca Raton will be Kurtis Matthews, founder of the San Francisco Comedy College (SFCC), one of the largest stand-up comedy schools in the country.  Kurtis gratefully shares his own life experiences to enrich his material with stories about his own struggles with therapy, infidelity, alcohol, drugs and getting sane.  Kurtis has toured with the likes of Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks and George Lopez.

Recovery Comedy 2010 is proudly being sponsored by Sober Living in Delray and presented by Jorge Velez and David Kolker of DMKolker Consultants LLC.  Tickets are $25 and limited VIP seating is available for $42.  Tickets can be obtained by calling the box office at (877) 245-7432 or visiting the theatre website at www.caldwelltheatre.com.

Media Contact:  David Kolker (561) 865-7116

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Event dates: June 18-19, 2010, two shows per night at 7pm and 9pm.

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Call (561) 241-7432 for more info, or check out http://www.caldwelltheatre.com/Program_E…

 http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Community-E…

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