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A Blog Post About Young Adult Peer Support by ChatGPT

If you haven’t heard already.. AI’s are slowly but surely taking over the world! There’s no point in hiding or running away because they’re already here and they’re powerful! All jokes aside, AI’s are very intelligent and if used correctly, can support you in ways you never thought possible. For example, I thought it would…

JRB is Hiring!

We are currently hiring 3 part-time Young Adult Warmline Operators. The Statewide Young Adult Warmline serves as a job readiness-training program that extends for up to 2 years from date of hire. – Rate of pay is $15/hour – Up to 24 hours per week of regularly scheduled hours. – RSS Training Certification within the…

JRB is accepting workshop proposals for our 2023 Young Adult Leadership Summit!

Update: We are extending our submission deadline until 11/30/22! Ready to break out of the loneliness and isolation of the pandemic? In recovery, but looking for an absolute banger of a good time with a community of your peers? Looking to step up into a leadership role where you can share your unique insights from…

Walk Your Path

When someone is in recovery, there are a lot of things that come with that. Many times someone identifies with recovery because they wish to see a change in their lives and realize that how things have been happing are either no longer beneficial to their wellbeing or never has been. When the realization that…

I Hear Voices

I hear voices. Not the hum of a computer, not a creaky floorboard. I hear voices that command me to hurt myself. I have experienced what my doctor calls “auditory hallucinations” since I was a teenager, but they didn’t get commanding and vulgar until my mid-twenties. I never told my doctors that I was hearing…

Adulting, Chapter 3: Basic Distress Tolerance Skills

Everyone experiences overwhelming emotions sometimes. It’s not an experience unique to people who are neurodiverse or in recovery. We will all feel overwhelmed from the loss of a loved one at some point. And who goes through life without ever having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day? It would blow my mind to…

Daily Maintenance Checklist Templates

We’ve made a bunch of templates for daily maintenance checklists you can print yourself or at a print shop. Or you can come visit us at our offices for print-outs. We’d be happy to work on one with you. Enjoy!

Adulting, Chapter 2: Weekly Scheduling and Planning

Last week, we focused on tools for cultivating self-awareness one day at a time. This week, we’re focusing on short- and mid-term planning. Specifically, we’ll be talking about how to create a weekly schedule that you can actually use. Why bother with weekly scheduling or planning? With mounting frequency, I find myself staring into the…

Adulting, Chapter 1: Daily Maintenance

Welcome back to Join Rise Be’s Adulting series! In this first installment, I’ll cover 2 basic organizational tools I use: A daily maintenance checklistA wellness inventory Not exactly mind-blowing drops of wisdom, but bedrock ain’t the most elegant stuff unless you’re surveying the Grand Canyon. The beauty of this system emerges at scale. Why bother…

JRB’s New Adulting Series

Join Rise Be is a peer-run initiative for emerging adults (ages 18-29) in recovery. We define recovery as an internal shift from the inability to overcome challenges into a manageable state of self-awareness where growth is attainable. And in many ways, doesn’t that feel like growing up? Ain’t recovery the process of coming to recognize…

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