Our retreat service project is for REAL LIFE…
REAL LIFE Mission
REAL LIFE creates pathways to attain and sustain a thriving life for those who desire change.
Guiding Principles
At REAL LIFE we believe:
- Consistency, encouraging relationships and accountability are essential
- In empowering and walking alongside those desiring a life of meaning and purpose
- Everyone should have the opportunity to thrive
- In the redemptive power of grace
- That utilizing a holistic approach to healing—within an inclusive community—fosters transformation.
Pillars to Thriving
All delivery of service is done through one of REAL LIFE’s Pillars to Thriving. By integrating the Pillars into all areas of REAL LIFE’s work, we help prepare Lifers to overcome personal and community barriers to thriving.
Success in life requires the skills to face daily struggles and unexpected challenges, while staying on the pathway to a Thriving Life!
That is the focus of REAL LIFE.
Sustained Sobriety
A Thriving Life begins with sustained sobriety. The result is a consistent daily walk with a rational, clear, and controlled state of mind. Without sobriety, the other pillars cannot be truly experienced.
Meaningful Employment
Obtain and maintain employment that provides a pathway to financial independence for the Lifer and their family. As one applies their skills in a job, the result is restoring personal dignity while serving others.
Functioning Family
Reunite, rebuild, strengthen or develop a functioning family that provides a safe and nurturing environment. A functioning family can have several forms, but it should always provide an emotionally safe environment that fosters open communication to express any opinion, thought, or feeling.
Community Interaction
Interacting with others in a way that leads to mutually beneficial outcomes. This encompasses the recovery term “living life on life’s terms,” behavior modification, and trauma informed care. All lead to appropriate interactions with others and within the community.
Practicing a Personal Faith
Faith in God provides meaning for life, informs daily decisions that lead to better outcomes in life, and provides inner strength. Faith gives us strength in times of weakness. “Practicing” emphasizes the application of faith, not merely the intellectual understanding. The faith pillar is “optional” for Lifers.
Ways to help:
https://reallifeprogram.org/support/in-kind/ – donation page from their website
The REAL LIFE Amazon Wishlist is now available! REAL LIFE Amazon Wishlist
Other options are to purchase a $20 to $25 gift card to one of the following: Regal Cinema, Bowlero, Red Lobster, Olive Garden or Chili’s
and items for REAL LIFE’s food pantry: pasta, pasta sauce and/or individually wrapped snack items that can be put into a child’s lunchbox i.e. goldfish, fruit snacks, granola bars etc.
gift cards and food pantry items can be brought to the retreat