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Greetings,
We have an exciting new group at the Philadelphia Recovery Community Center called Beating The Blues.
Everyday issues, stress and anxiety can build up until they take over your life.
PRO-ACT is proud to host Beating the Blues, a free 8-session program to teach you how to handle life’s bumps and stop them from before you fall flat on your face. AND if you’ve already fallen, you’ll learn how to get back up.
Beating the Blues is a computer-based program that will teach you, step-by-step, how to manage the big and little issues that seem to consume your life. You will also learn how to look at life in a more positive way that can only result in more positive actions. Sign up now.
Sometimes it all just seems to be too much.
It feels like every step forward is followed by two steps backwards.
Beating the Blues is brought to by the Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA—a leader in peer-driven services and made possible by funding from DBHIDS.
Class Information
Classes are every Monday beginning at 12:30PM and running to 2:00 PM. The first class is October 20th. The program is only 8 sessions. Please call 215-223-7700 to register or If you have any questions.
PRO-ACT Philadelphia Recovery Community Center
1701 W. Lehigh Ave., Unit 6, Philadelphia, PA 19119 215-223-7700
Monday, October 6, 2014
Daily Quote
"Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed." - "A Course In Miracles"
Today's Online Meetings
AA Meeting - 8:00 pm CST: "Face to Face"
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
October 5 Chp 51 v 17 TWELVE STEPPING WITH STRENGTH FROM THE PSALM
The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit.You will not reject a broken and repentant heart ,O God .
STEP 1 - We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
I have said it before and I will say it again. Addiction is the By-product of a broken heart and a very hard head . Many of our prayers go unanswered because we are too busy playing God .God cant fix your broken heart and remove the desire to use if your playing his part .In the Psalm God is giving you a promise that you will not be rejected if your step 1 is sincere from a broken heart .Getting the heart broken is one of the easiest things we do to ourselves. Denial and Pride are two of the most common heart breakers in the world. Throw in outside sources such as abusive addictive parents to your mix and you will wind up with a prideful self preserving person with a iron clad impenetrable heart .Surrender and brokenness are Gods key to removing your self medicating ways .The blinders are gonna have to come off and if your not willing to remove them God will do it for you through your foolishness. You are the greatest of all his creations.The gift of life he has freely given you is not to be lived defeated , addicted , and way below your potential. Intelligence is one of the gifts we have been given but your pride has strangled it into submission and left you stuck in self defeating ways. When your down and only then God will pick you back up again ,brush you off dry your tears and put you back together again.
Proverb 4: 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.
By Joseph Dickerson
Miley Cyrus' ‘Dirty Hippie’ Art Show Featured Illegal Drugs
The pop singer's display featured a bead-covered bong and tabs of LSD.
Miley's "art". Photo via
By John Lavitt
10/03/14
Miley Cyrus’ “Dirty Hippie” art show that premiered on Sept. 10 in Manhattan during New York Fashion Week was clearly designed to shock.
During an interview with V Magazine, Miley Cyrus showed a number of the pieces that were part of the show that the magazine described as “a psychedelic jungle.” The question is why so many of the pieces actually include illegal drugs like pharmaceutical pills, tabs of acid, and blunts.
In the interview, Miley Cyrus explained her wild child approach to making art. “During that 4th of July party, I saw this party hat and I thought it might be fun to glue some shit onto it. I just made it for myself to wear. And then someone was like, Oh this is great, you should keep going… [Pointing] There are drugs in that, and then there’s a blunt.”
As a self-proclaimed pothead and proponent of Molly in her songs, Miley glued some of the drugs to the sculptures. In the show, it was hard to see the specific drugs because they had been painted over and thrown into a chaotic array of stuff from the life of Cyrus. Nevertheless, nobody could mistake the five-foot bong standing proud in a corner as anything other than a five-foot bong.
Cyrus often posts pictures of her colorful artwork on Instagram, and the five-foot bong covered in beads and knick-knacks has been included as well. The premier of the small exhibit took place in conjunction with Jeremy Scott’s fashion show at the height of Fashion Week. The show can still be seen as it remains on display at the V Magazine office’s gallery in New York City.
Although Cyrus has claimed the show proves that she is more than just some “pop dumb dumb,” there is an argument to be made that including drugs in a show that will be seen by many of her underage fans is a stupid choice. Although the therapeutic impact of the work is undeniable, is it necessary for Cyrus to take such artistic therapy to the point of being a dangerous influence?
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