Second Harvest Food Bank
Why let good food go to waste? Our Common Ground’s Chef Roz transforms Target’s surplus food into wholesome meals for clients. Thank you Target Store San-Mateo-Fashion-Island for your generous donations! #foodrescuefriday
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: The Role Plays
Show Topic: It is not feasible to practice for every conceivable situation that may confront the former addict. It is feasible to practice for a few common situations that many if not most will face as they reintegrate themselves with their family, friends, and significant others. We call this the role plays.
Show Segments: Recap / News / Sports / Topic
Mic Check 1,2;1,2
Technical difficulties have become an unfortunate norm for OCG radio. Let us hope that we have not run into yet another technical difficulty.
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: RECOVERY and the HOLIDAYS
Show Topic: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, or so they thought. Depending on which stage of the recovery spectrum you were or are at when the Holiday season comes upon you, will often determine which one of those phrases best applies. Neither are the be all and end all, as we must deal with both constructively.
Show Segments: News-Sports-Recap, Show Topic
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: A Smorgasbord ……
Show Topic: We’ve been gone for 2 months. A number of things have transpired with OCG during that time that we want to talk about. We also have some gripes that we need to resolve.
Show Segments: News / Sports / Updates / Show Topic
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: Sacred Girl …… by Kenya Aissa
SHOW TOPIC: We interview Friend of OCG, Author (and much more) Kenya Aissa about her, and her book, Sacred Girl. The book was inspired by the girls on her Caseload while a Counselor at Daytop California. Sacred Girl is geared towards adolescents, teens, and young women. However, after review, we believe this book is for EVERYONE! There are many collateral subject matters, but the primary subject is Spirituality and looking to speak to those young girls who are spiritually disconnected.
SHOW SEGMENTS: RECAP / NEWS / SPORTS, SHOW TOPIC, RECOVERY SUPPORT TIME
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: What to do about the “Johnny’s”
Show Topic: Who are the Johnny’s? We are referring to those clients who for many reasons do not receive the peer support and intervention needed during the treatment experience. Often times there may be a chorus developing for the Johnny’s to be discharged from treatment. What’s our responsibility and how should that responsibility manifest itself.
Show Segments: Recap, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: Entitlement and Recovery
Show Topic: Inquiring minds want to know the following: Can a sense of Entitlement be compatible with succeeding in Recovery? Can a sense of Entitlement co-exist with Gratitude? The prevailing attitudes, behaviors, and culture of the day now bring rise to these questions and the impact on ones Recovery process and the facilitation of treatment.
Show Segments: Recap / News / Sports / Show Topic / Recovery Support Time
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: Caving to Cravings
Show Topic: When in recovery, cravings are like your antagonist. Picking at you, bothering you, infiltratiing your dreams, and even traumatizing some to the brink of relapse. Cravings however are a part of the recovery process, that almost everyone has or will experience at some point to varying degrees. How they are dealth with is key to not being overwhelmed by them, and ultimately feeding into them. We’ll discuss some perspectives and methods for dealing with cravings.
Show Segments: Recap / News / Sports / Show Topic / Recovery Support Time
TREATMENT and RECOVERY: Drafting for Recovery Success
SHOW TOPIC: In honor of this years NFL draft coming up Friday we’re holding our own draft. Your humble hosts will each take turns drafting their favorite Unwritten Philosophies that they each deem integral to asuccessful recovery experience.
SHOW SEGMENTS: Recap/News/Sports, Show Topic, Recovery Support Time
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