A halfway house is designed to help those recovering from various addictions maintain long term recovery.

We use the term Halfway House here generally to include any structured sober living facility for people obtaining and maintaining sobriety.

548 NW 13th Avenue
Boynton Beach Florida
866-737-6128 (Sherri)
We offer services to Pregnant and Post Partum Women, Men and Women, DUI/DWI Offenders, Criminal Justice Clients, Women with children, children, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. We are located in Palm Beach County.

54 SW 16 Street
Dania Beach
Florida  33004
954-394-6309

1829 Harding Street
Hollywood, Florida 33020
Florida

www.recoveryhouse54.org

Detox, Halfway House, Sober House Men, DUI/DWI Offenders, Criminal Justice Clients Men, Criminal Offenders

Broward County Vouchers & Cash
Weekly Rent $145.00

Palm Beach County
Florida
561.758.1011

www.thelillypadpb.com

The Lilly Pad is located near City Place and Downtown West Palm Beach. We are only minutes from the beach.

We provide a safe, structured & supportive environment for women only. Located in West Palm Beach, FL, The Lilly Pad is supervised by a female live-in Resident Manager who emphasizes self-responsibility, zero tolerance to drugs & alcohol, and requires participation in meal planning and preparation, domestic housekeeping & weekly house meetings. Our staff is trained.

Also cater to people with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, women. Clients can pay by check, cash or credit card.

Palm Beach County
Florida
561.676.9080

www.pathwaystopeace.com

Pathways to Peace is a transitional sober living home for women. It is located in a beautiful residential neighborhood in West Palm Beach. Our mission at Pathways To Peace is to support each woman in securing her individual bridge between life and sobriety.

Also cater to people with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, seniors/older adults, Pregnant/Post partum women, women, women with children, DUI/DWI Offenders, Criminal Justice Clients and Criminal Offenders.

3208 S. Dixie Hwy
West Palm Beach
Florida 33405
561.676.9080

www.houseofprinciples.com

House of Principles is a transitional sober living home for men. It is located in a beautiful residential neighborhood of West Palm Beach. Our mission at House of Principles is to support each man in securing his individual bridge between life and sobriety.

Also cater to people with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders, seniors/older adults, men, DUI/DWI Offenders, Criminal Justice Clients and Criminal Offenders.

1218 SW 2nd Ave.
Dania Beach
Florida 33004
954-404-9315

www.pathwaystofreedom.net

LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
FORM OF PAYMENT: PayPal (Visa, MasterCard online debits)
AFFILIATION: The New Way of Life Institute, Inc. (501c3)
DONATIONS: Accepted

This is a clean and sober, safe environment that offers a holistic approach to recovery and
transitional housing for people in the process of rebuilding their lives.

North Miami
Florida
1.786.227.4842 (Fredia)
info@joyshouse.info

www.joyshouse.info

Joy’s House is a beautiful, upscale 4 bedroom / 3 bathroom home dedicated to bridging the gap from early recovery to independent living.

Located on a privacy fenced, acre of land in the heart of North Miami Florida, Joy’s House is limited to only 8 women for your comfort. We strive to achieve a close, family feeling where a small, intimate group of women will be there for one another. An atmosphere of mutual support and accountability allow an opportunity for the healing process to begin.

Our house is based on 12-step principles & Joy’s House is located near 5 different 12 step meeting rooms. Attending a 12 step meeting daily is required in the first 3 months (90 meetings in 90 days).

Transitions, G&G Holistic & The Village are among the treatment centers conveniently located near Joy’s House; a plus for women attending outpatient therapy.

Amenities found at Joy’s House Include:
Wireless internet / House Computer / 2 Big screen TV’s/ Cable Service with all Premium Channels / House Phone with Free Long Distance / Large, comfortable rooms / Washer and Dryer / Swimming Pool / Volleyball Court / BBQ / Once a week Relapse Prevention Group with Counselor / Acupuncture, Massage & Tai Chi are also available.

Joy’s House – The Joy Is In The Journey

525 Fairwood Ave. Ste. 291
Clearwater
Florida 33759
727.831.5279

www.harmonyhomesflorida.com

Acceptin persons with co-occuring mental and substance abuse disorders , Senior/Older Adults, Women, Men, DUI/DWI Offenders, Criminal Justice Clients

The Promises
(properly known as the "9th Step Promises")

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us—sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. (Alcoholics Anonymous, pp. 83-84)

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From the fifth chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous

 Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.

Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now. If you have decided you want what we have and are willing to go to any length to get it- then you are ready to take certain steps.

At some of these we balked. We thought we could find an easier softer way. But we could not. With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start. Some of have tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.

Remember that we deal with alcohol- cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all power- that one is God. May you find Him Now!

Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon.

Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a fearless and thorough moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people, wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all or affairs.

Many of us exclaimed, "What an order I can’t go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.

Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to the agnostic, and out personal adventures before and after make clear three personal ideas:

• (a) That we were alcoholic and could not manage our own lives.
• (b) That probably no human power could have relieved our alcoholism.
• (c) That God could and would if He were sought.

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Boca Raton/Delray Beach

561 886 7536

Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Chemical Dependency

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1231-1235 NE 15th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale
FL. 33301
954 804 6888 (Myles)

Contact Myles B. Schlam, J.D., CCJAP

208 SE 8th Street
Ft. Lauderdale
Florida 33316
954 804 6888 (Myles)

Contact Myles B. Schlam, J.D., CCJAP

Brief Denial Questionnaire:
What denial patterns do you use? (check as many as needed)

1. Avoidance: "I’ll talk about anything but my real problems!"

2. Absolute Denial: "No Not Me, I Don’t Have Problems!"

3. Minimizing: "My Problems Aren’t That Bad!"

4. Rationalizing: "If I Can Find Good Enough Reasons For My Problems, I Won’t Have To Deal With Them!"!"

5. Blaming: "If I Can Prove That My Problems Are not My Fault, I Won’t Have To Deal With Them!"

6. Comparing: "Showing That Others Are Worse Than Me Proves That I Don’t Have Serious Problems!”

7. Compliance: "I’ll Pretend To Do What You Want If You’ll Leave Me Alone!"

8. Manipulating: "I’ll Only Admit That I Have Problems If You Agree To Solve Them For Me"

9. Flight Into Health: – "Feeling Better Means That I’m Cured!"

10. Recovery By Fear: "Being Scared Of My Problems Will Make Them Go Away!"

11. Strategic Hopelessness: "Since Nothing Works, I Don’t Have To Try!"

12. Democratic Disease State: "I Have The Right To Destroy Myself & No One Has The Right To Stop Me!"

From http://www.tgorski.com/clin_mod/dmc/denial_checklist.htm

"Letting go" of a situation, an outcome, or of a person or their issue can be challenging. But our attempts to control these things never work.

Detaching is another way to explain this concept. But it may feel like this type of response means we don’t care or that we’re indifferent or aloof. We sometimes confuse detaching from someone with cutting off from them.

But it doesn’t mean you don’t care, it means you don’t caretake or carry the responsibility for it. This has been such a helpful concept for me. I find I am able to return to a place of peacefulness when I am able to let go.

Melody Beattie in The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series) tells the following story that has helped me understand this concept:

One day, my son brought a gerbil home to live with us. We put it in a cage. Some time later, the gerbil escaped. For the next six months, the animal ran frightened and wild through the house. So did we – chasing it.

"There it is. Get it!" we’d scream, each time someone spotted the gerbil. I, or my son, would throw down whatever we were working on, race across the house, and lunge at the animal hoping to catch it.

I worried about it, even when we didn’t see it. "This isn’t right," I’d think. "I can’t have a gerbil running loose in the house. We’ve got to catch it. We’ve got to do something ." A small animal, the size of a mouse had the entire household in a tizzy.

One day, while sitting in the living room, I watched the animal scurry across the hallway. In a frenzy, I started to lunge at it, as I usually did, then I stopped myself. No, I said. I’m all done. If that animal wants to live in the nooks and crannies of this house, I’m going to let it. I’m done worrying about it. I’m done chasing it. It’s an irregular circumstance, but that’s just the way it’s going to have to be.

I let the gerbil run past without reacting. I felt slightly uncomfortable with my new reaction – not reacting – but I stuck to it anyway. Before long, I became downright peaceful with the situation. I had stopped fighting the gerbil. One afternoon, only weeks after I started practicing my new attitude, the gerbil ran by me, as it had so many times, and I barely glanced at it. The animal stopped in its tracks, turned around, and looked at me. I started to lunge at it. It started to run away. I relaxed.

"Fine," I said. "Do what you want." And I meant it. One hour later, the gerbil came and stood by me, and waited. I gently picked it up and placed it in its cage, where it has lived happily ever since. The moral of the story? Don’t lunge at the gerbil. He’s already frightened, and chasing him just scares him more and makes us crazy.

Letting Go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

I love this reading on Forgiveness – I often read it to forgive someone in my life but I substitute Mother for Father or whoever I need to find forgiveness for…

Forgive your mother!  Forgive her not for the things she has done or not done or for the things she said or has not said.  Forgive her because it is the only way to open your heart to self-forgiveness.  Forgive her not because you don’t have a right to be upset about the way she has handled some things in her life and in your life.  Forgive her not because she was right in making you feel wrong, or because she was wrong when she failed to acknowledge that you were right.  Forgive your mother because until you do, there will always be a void in your heart. 

Forgive your mother for the many, many times she was not the mother you wanted her to be.  Forgive her for the times she did not do things the way you needed them done.  Forgive your mother for not protecting you or speaking out in your behalf.  Forgive her for not guiding you in the right direction and for the times she totally lost her direction, dragging you along with her.  Forgive your mother for demanding things from you that she could not provide for you or for herself.  Forgive your mother whether or not she did anything wrong or bad to you.  Forgive her not because you are excusing whatever she did or however it affected you.  Forgive your mother because holding judgments against her has a devastating impact on your soul.  The judgments you hold will eventually break your heart.  Forgive your mother because the truth is, she did the best she could whether you would like to believe it or not. You may have been harboring judgments or negative opinions about your mother and the way she did or did not mother you.  

Just for today, forgive yourself for judging your mother.  Once you do, there will be nothing left to forgive her for.

~Iyanla~

An old man, going a lone highway,

Came, at the evening, cold and gray,

To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,

Through which was flowing a sullen tide.

The old man crossed in the twilight dim;

The sullen stream had no fears for him;

But he turned, when safe on the other side,

And built a bridge to span the tide.

"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,

"You are wasting strength with building here;

Your journey will end with the ending day;

You never again must pass this way;

You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide,

Why build you the bridge at the eventide?"

The builder lifted his old gray head:

"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,

"There followeth after me today

A youth, whose feet must pass this way."

"This chasm, that has been naught to me,

To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.

He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;

Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."