RESOURCES

SAFE SPACES

Valor Farms

Website: https://healthyveterans.org/

Call: 888-317-4677

What it is: The National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm is devoted to helping Veterans navigate the challenges of trauma and transition to achieve their full potential and contribute to every facet of American society. At NCHV we take a faith-based, holistic approach to “Returning Healthy Veterans to America” in the natural healing environment of Valor Farm near Altavista, Virginia.

Alcohol Anonymous (AA)

Website: https://www.aa.org/find-aa?

What is it: Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem. A.A.’s primary purpose is to help alcoholics to achieve sobriety.

Celebrate Recovery (CR)

Main website: https://www.celebraterecovery.com/

How to find one in your location: https://locator.crgroups.info/

What is it: Celebrate Recovery is a safe place to find community and freedom from the issues that are controlling our life. For anyone with hurts, habits or hangups.

Al-Alon

Website: https://al-anon.org/

What is it: Our personal situations may be different, but we share as equals because of what we have in common: our lives have been affected by another person’s drinking. Al-Anon is a mutual support group. We can find understanding and support when we share our common experience with each other. Some of us are here because a spouse or partner has struggled with alcoholism. For others, the problem drinker is a parent, child, or grandchild. Sometimes a brother, a sister, or some other friend or relative brings us to Al-Anon. Many of us have had more than one alcoholic family member or friend. Alcoholism has similar effects on us all, even though our relationships to the alcoholic may be different. Many newcomers are most interested in hearing about situations and relationships that are similar to their own. Over time, however, we come to understand that we can benefit from hearing how the Al-Anon principles worked in many different circumstances.

CoDa

Website: https://coda.org/

How to find one in person or online: https://coda.org/find-a-meeting/

What is it: Somewhere along the line, we learned to doubt our perception, discount our feelings, and overlook our needs. We looked to others to tell us what to think, feel, and behave. Other people supplied us with information about who we were and should be. It became more important to be compliant or avoidant rather than to be authentic, and we adopted rigid beliefs about what “should be.” We believed that if we could just “get it right,” things would be okay. When we “got it wrong,” our sense of security and self-worth evaporated.