This Saturday from 10 a.m. to Noon is our Second Saturday workshop presented by Daniel Maldonado. He’ll be talking about the “Recovery Waltz…1-2-3 Breathe, 1-2-3 Breathe.”  

Daniel says to get sober, stay sober and live sober, you’ve got to live the steps and do the dance. It starts with Steps 1-2-3 and flows into the [...]

In September 2008, Texas legislation went into effect requiring DPS to look for patterns of abuse regarding prescription medications. Austin Recovery was featured recently in a news story about a new drug monitoring program in Texas that will keep an eye on doctors and pharmacies filling/writing repeat prescriptions of pain pills. If you missed the [...]

THE GIRL IN THE GLASS
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When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you queen for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what THAT girl has to say.

For it isn’t your partner or family or friend
Who judgment upon you must pass;
The girl whose verdict [...]

Dear AR Staff and Board,

David is doing well. It has been a month since he left Austin Recovery and we could not have hoped for the change he has made. His attitude is great, despite continued legal woes, and he has goals for the future. As I mentioned before, he was not the model “student” [...]

Families of clients in our Journey program (minimum 90 days) are given a book titled, Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts. It was written by Nancy Oelklaus, Ed.D., Irene Watson, MA, and Liliane Desjardins, LCAS, to provide a treatment approach that embraces the whole family.  

We provide it for families because it’s [...]

I was not going to Austin Recovery to change my life; I was simply going to AR to hide, clean up and run. I made no phone call prior, I just showed up and told the administrator that if I left that day without help, I would die. I was desperate, in a black-out from [...]

IMAGO by Heather N.

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Dumbells, push-ups, running in the rain.

Crying, screaming, pills & pain.

Measure my waist & step on the scale.

I look in the mirror: my face is going pale.

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Starving, dizziness, falling down dead.

Can’t think. Can’t sleep. Can’t go to bed.

My eyes are sinking. My bones protruding.

But I keep on smiling before concern starts speaking.

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Cut out more [...]

Lots of folks at Austin Recovery are looking forward to the (NBC) premiere of Friday Night Lights. In addition to being an incredibly addicting show, one of the characters this season is battling an addiction of her own.

Angela Rawna (raw-NAY) plays Regina Howard, the mom of an East Dillon football player. To prepare for the role, Angela called Austin [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen: set your DVRs! “When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story” will be on CBS, April 25.

It’s based on the true story of the love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon Family Groups and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Telling the intimate journey of the impact of alcohol [...]

Bill Wigmore

Three years ago, Bill Wigmore — the CEO and President of Austin Recovery drug and alcohol rehab center — was ordained as an Episcopal priest to help those in treatment and recovery. To focus on his calling, he recently asked the board of directors for a new role as director of chaplaincy services. After [...]