Enthusiastic
- “Stay sober and like it!” -“Enthusiasm” and “Recovery” are not terms generally associated with one another. Concepts of “what’s fun” don’t usually include staying sober and seeking emotional responsibility. Consequently, recovery is not something people embrace with a whole lot of enthusiasm. But enthusiastic recovery is the hallmark of Lifeway and the truly amazing thing…IT WORKS!
- Essential to building a program of enthusiastic recovery, Lifeway adheres to the concept of Talent Based Hiring. All of the facilitators in Lifeway have experienced recovery at a personal level, and work an uncompromised 12-step program. Each has been selected by Lifeway because he or she possesses the ability to successfully convince other people that they can have just as much fun – indeed, even more – staying sober as they did getting high. It’s a unique approach and – again – it works!
- Mix the magnetism of the facilitators with the enthusiasm that they generate among the recovering family members, and you have Lifeway. They attract, (not only on the basis of parental insistence or other forced means, but also by strictly word of mouth among the sufferers themselves), young people and their parents to two or three free staffed twelve-step meetings and social functions each week. Here, they discuss solutions to their problems and have fun keeping each other growing.
Accountable
- Accountability is more than an essential element of Lifeway’s 360 Degree Recovery Program, it is the mortar between the bricks when reconstructing a life free from self-destructive addictions.
- What is accountability? Accountability is about owning on’s own behaviors, decisions, feelings and abilities. It is about responsibility and self-responsibility. It is about moral characteristics: like courtesy and respect, ethics and dignity; honor and integrity.
- Lifeway’s program and therapeutic services supports the individual in early recovery by helping the young person grow in accountability. Lifeway’s alternative peer group program combined with other program elements (to include Lifeway’s alternative safe and sober schools), form this 360 degree surround of accountability.
- Lifeway’s staff of facilitators, members with a stronghold on sobriety, parents, and a network of supporters work together to form an all-important team delivering this crucial component of recovery to the sufferer.
- Lifeway also teaches the parents and family members new skills in working with and relating to the recoverer. Allowing the recoverer to own his or her own behaviors is imperative in this accountability structure. Parents learn to own their own behaviors and feelings in order to help their loved one accelerate their learning.
God Centered
- Self-accountability and self-esteem go hand-in-hand towards recovery. Learning to own one’s choices helps an individual to learn how to respond when making a poor choice.
- The recoverer learns that true happiness is revealed when blaming others for poor choices is replaced with skills for correcting one’s own errors when able to do so. When not capable, the individual learns to rely on a higher power and to allow God to help and direct through the harder times and shortcomings.