Orchard Recovery Center
811 Grafton Road V0N 1G2 Bowen Island, BC, Canada

Today's dose of adorable. You're welcome #BillyAndJimmy #SweetBleats #GoatTherapy

Thank you to everyone who signed the Recovery Day BC petition we shared last week! We are happy to say that the narrative has changed because of everyone who spoke up, once again proving that sharing your lived experience not only makes waves, but can change the tide

May 5th is the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), also known as Red Dress Day. Our hearts are with the families and communities whose loved ones never return home. This day began in 2010, as an aesthetic response to more than 1000 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada by Jaime Black (Métis). In times of social distancing and isolation due to dual health crises it is essential to raise our voices and hearts to the ...people that have been lost. The dresses from these photographs are hanging on Bowen Island, as the community mourns and remembers our stolen sisters. #RedDressDay #MMIWG #NoMoreStolenSisters

Star Wars related quotes that are also applicable to recovery.... and go! #MayThe4thBeWithYou #CarrieFisherQuotes #HappyStarWarsDay

What does your garden need today?

Wishing you and your loved ones peace of mind this holiday season. Let us know if we can help.

"Emotional connection is crucial to healing. In fact, trauma experts overwhelmingly agree that the best predictor of the impact of any trauma is not the severity of the event, but whether we can seek and take comfort from others. Traumatic stress cuts to the heart of life, interfering with one’s capacity to love, create, and work. This incapacity brought on not by poor lifestyle choices, moral weakness, or character flaws but by a complex interplay among biology, genes, and environment. And though Trauma is a universal experience, generally speaking, it is an uncommon part of people’s daily conversation. Thankfully, and appropriately, trauma-informed practice is becoming an increasingly common topic."

Sponsored and decorated by families, community groups and businesses, the Festival's Christmas trees on beautiful Dundarave Beach have raised over a third of a million dollars since 2008 for the Lookout Society's North Shore Shelter. End homelessness beautifully: Donate to the Lookout Foundation. Lookout will use the proceeds to support housing for members of our community exiting homelessness. https://my.charitableimpact.com//dundarave-festival-s-fore... @ Dundarave Festival of Lights

Use today to reach out to someone who remembers a time when people were hiding in their homes for different reasons, as we remember those whose great sacrifices brought peace to so many around the world during those troubled times. The elder that you reach out to today may be having to isolate, and will likely be grateful you called. "Today, we may be locked inside, but we have contact with our children and grandchildren through the phone and internet, says Berthe Badehi,... who hid from the Nazis as a child during World War II, has become one of the many Holocaust survivors confined in their homes to evade the coronavirus. Beyond cancellation of educational events, COVID-19 has posed a particularly grave threat to Holocaust survivors, given their age. The virus "is absolutely attacking the memory of the Holocaust because it is attacking the elderly," Smith said, adding that he is aware of several survivors who have died from coronavirus-related complications. "It is also attacking our ability to (collect) these stories," he said. - https://bit.ly/36ploa5

#ThursdayThoughts about shifting our thinking patterns through cognitive reframing. Stay positive in these tough times Image courtesy of The Depression Project.

Wishing all of you a happy and safe Halloween! #StaySafe #EatCandy #WearAMask

Just saying. #GivingThanksIn2020

Are you accessing your Continuing Care alumni benefits? Every Monday-Friday morning, we offer a daily check-in to ground yourself in your recovery to start your day. On Wednesdays, we host our Friends of the Orchard (FOO) meetings via Zoom. Celebrating a milestone? Want to virtually connect with your Orchard peers to take your cake? This is the place to do it! ... On Thursday, our Primary Care clients have their in-house meeting, and Alumni Coordinator Sue Clark invites alumni to connect with her to share their stories with current clients. Sue can be reached at [email protected] All times are in PST, and Zoom links are not posted publicly to ensure privacy. If you are an alumni and would like to access our Daily Check-In or FOO meetings, check your email for the Orchard newsletter, send a message to our page here, or DM Cassandra Orchard to get the links!

Studies across the globe have been consistently showing alcohol use in adults has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and treating substance addiction has been declared an essential service in BC. With our reduced capacity and private facilities, the Orchard is here to help you and your family heal. Our physically distanced measures ensure Orchard clients can start their recovery journey in a safe environment with small group settings. Call, text, or email our Intake Team to ask about our admissions and protocols. https://orchardrecovery.com/covid-19/

Registration is open for the 14th Annual Pain Society of Alberta conference, taking place October 16th-18th. This event is free, virtual, and features one of the Orchard's Addiction Medicine Physicians, Dr. Launette Rieb! Check it out at https://www.painab.ca/2020virtualconference #PainAB2020 #OpioidUse #Recovery

As our first unofficial #RecoveryMonth draws to a close, we wanted to say thank you to our industry colleagues who worked tirelessly to shift this year’s activities online. 2020 has been a struggle for everyone around the world, and our community has been fighting two pandemics at once. While we can’t know what safety measures next year will hold, we are already thinking about how to push the envelope forward to make September 2021 nationally recognized as Recovery Month. W...e will keep you posted about how you can support the #M40Movement to ask the Federal Government to recognize Recovery Month officially. Follow Recovery Month Canada for the latest news on getting this motion passed! #RecoveryMonthCanada #OneDayAtATime #ItWorksIfYouWorkIt

Orchard's clinical team wants all of our alumni to have the opportunity to register for this 4 hour workshop, coming up on Saturday September 26th! Registration is FREE but space is extremely limited. https://amplifiedrecovery.com/ --- We invite you to join three leaders in the recovery field - Dr. Allen Berger, Herb Kaighan, and Tommy Rosen, as they share with you their insights into how you can propel your recovery into the fourth dimension.... There is a radical change taking place in today’s recovery landscape. We are now celebrating many different paths to recovery and discovering new possibilities for healing and thriving in every area of life. Recovery is seen as taking place at the level of mind, body and spirit and is becoming increasingly synonymous with health and wellness. This goal of this workshop is to add perspective to this important development. In This 4-Hour Workshop You'll Learn: To help you get unstuck in your recovery. To understand the role emotional sobriety plays in helping you develop true emotional freedom. You will develop faith in your ability to grow yourself to be what you can be. You will increase your capacity to cope with life as it is.

Heading into Autumn with the right mindset... #ThoughtfulThursday #AutumnVibes #AttitudeOfGratitude

Recovery Day BC is LIVE! The show kicks off in 10 minutes. Check the list below for the 4 ways you can participate in tonight's virtual festival!

TODAY IS THE DAY! Gather with your bubble, start a Facebook Watch party with friends online, or tune in from wherever you are! Tonight from 6 pm to 7:30, streamed live from the Recovery Day BC page! #RecoveryDay2020

Proud sponsors of the reimagined 2020 Recovery Capital Conference! Loved getting to experience the magic of what our industry colleagues do both in person and virtually this year. @Recovery Capital Virtual Conference - Overcoming Addiction @Judy Darcy #SocialDistancing #RecoveryCapital #VirtualConference #RecoveryCapitalConference

We're not crying, you're crying. #SobrietyStories #NationalRecoveryMonth

It's September 1st! Check out this sweet Recovery Month Canada frame to show how important it is that we bring an entire month of recovery across the country <3

Sharing these photos from a #BowenIsland #MomsStopTheHarm member, who collected shoes as part of the display on the #BurrardBridge for #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay. This #August31st hits especially hard, as overdose deaths in BC have drastically spiked in recent months due to the current pandemic and the social isolation that has come along with it. Tonight, Vancouver City Hall, Science World, and BC Place will light up purple. There will be an online candlelight vigil at 7pm PST (see poster) with live music and guest speakers such as #BonnieHenry. Tune into https://www.facebook.com/MomsStopTheHarm/ to watch. MomsStopTheHarm will be donating the shoes to those in need after they are taken off the bridge.

Our headline today: "Slow progress is infinitely faster than giving up." What's your pandemic/recovery mantra these days?

With September right around the corner, the Orchard team is gearing up for our annual Recovery events! This year's Recovery Capital Conference features topics ranging from BIPOC Recovery Pathways to surviving the tripartite of COVID, Psychological Injury, and Addiction, and so much more. You can earn continuing education credits while building your network and recovery capital. Check out Building Recovery Capital Virtual Conference for registration details!

For anyone who has ever attended Recovery Day BC's annual event every September, you'll know what an amazing day we always share - rain or shine! This year, join us for our reimagined virtual festival as we celebrate recovery with special guests Macklemore and Madchild! Mark your attendance down to follow livestream details for Saturday, September 5th from 6:00pm-7:30pm!... https://www.facebook.com/events/886632845161757/ See more