Our Teen Council speaks about connections at SAL

Whether you love making New Year’s resolutions or avoid them altogether, Save A Life Recovery Resource Center is here for you. Whatever your need may be support, creativity, guidance, or connection you are welcome here. This year, let’s focus on progress over perfection, kindness over criticism, and community over isolation.

By Ashley Mitchell We get asked a lot about why many recovery centers have so many different programs that are just not recovery support groups. While support groups are incredibly needed and helpful, recovery is not a one size fits all. These variety of programs and creative programs do a few incredibly important things that you may not think of. Doing a creative program like writing or art turns your life story into something tangible that you can see. You can see with you

The path to recovery is as unique as each human being. We are all recovering from something. Recovery is not a one-size-fits-all journey. It is deeply personal, shaped by individual experiences, challenges, and strengths.

By Ashley Mitchell Ageism is something that is not spoken about a lot. It is a topic many would like to avoid or may deem unimportant. Ageism is important though and it really is an issue that goes across the board. The definition of ageism is “ prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's age.” I was fortunate enough a fe w years ago to work with the Maine Arts Commissions and Lifetime Arts and participate in intensive training on the subject of ageism. One comm