Welcome to my blog.
Here you will read about my daily trials and tribulations while running a men's Sober Living House.
It is my opinion that Sober Housing is absolutely essential to a recovering alcoholic/addict upon release from an inpatient treatment facility. After all is said and done, where do they go? Back to the cruel streets from where they came? Back to old associates who will only discourage them and drag them down? Back to co-dependent family situations? Back to lonely apartments or room or homes by themselves? Back to the bar stool, gangs, dope houses or seedy motels? Why go to treatment in the first place?
I myself have done ALL of the above except gangland. And I never stayed clean and sober for more than 24 hours because of it. I would look around, think about the hopeless of it all and get a quick case of the 'Fuck It's' and be drunk in short order.
I am not going to go into all the reasons why I drank or the disease concept of alcoholism or the recovery process. This is a place for people who are already in recovery and are interested in the housing business only.
If there ever was a 'Drug War', we lost it a long time ago. And it is only going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better at all. So we will always have a great need for transitional housing. The problem is finding qualified, willing, compassionate, dedicated people to run them.
For a man who is on disability as a direct result of damage done to his brain, causing him to become somewhat bi-polar or even schizophrenic, but who can manage well provided he takes his medication, this is the perfect opportunity for him to supplement his income without penalty from the Social security people. He is not getting 'paid' wages to run a house, just free rent, all bills paid. Only a Founder is entitled to profit from residents and landlords. It is usually not a good idea to rely on an SSI pensioned founder. Too much can happen to cause him to not take his meds, and as a result, he relapses himself, or freaks out and becomes unreliable. But guys on SSI DO found houses. As long as you have a back up manager or someone to oversee the daily operations of the house you will be fine. But be sure you do or do it yourself.
The house I am currently managing is called "POWERHOUSE", after a part of the 11th Step where it says ..." praying only for the knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out." The name suggests you can come in to the house and if you are diligent about working a good 12 Step program, you will experience the 12 Promises and receive that power to guide you in your daily life and enable you to help others.
This is a very new and very strange thing for me to be doing, this blog. And I might not finish it. I might not blog past tomorrow. It depends on two things. 1. If I get any followers in short order and 2. If it proves to be more fun than a chore. My only real interest in this is helping someone in another state or even another part of the world open one or more houses for the vast ocean of people who will always need one.
So we will pick up tomorrow where we left off today, and in the mean time, I will see if I get any followers to write TO.
Here you will read about my daily trials and tribulations while running a men's Sober Living House.
It is my opinion that Sober Housing is absolutely essential to a recovering alcoholic/addict upon release from an inpatient treatment facility. After all is said and done, where do they go? Back to the cruel streets from where they came? Back to old associates who will only discourage them and drag them down? Back to co-dependent family situations? Back to lonely apartments or room or homes by themselves? Back to the bar stool, gangs, dope houses or seedy motels? Why go to treatment in the first place?
I myself have done ALL of the above except gangland. And I never stayed clean and sober for more than 24 hours because of it. I would look around, think about the hopeless of it all and get a quick case of the 'Fuck It's' and be drunk in short order.
I am not going to go into all the reasons why I drank or the disease concept of alcoholism or the recovery process. This is a place for people who are already in recovery and are interested in the housing business only.
If there ever was a 'Drug War', we lost it a long time ago. And it is only going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better at all. So we will always have a great need for transitional housing. The problem is finding qualified, willing, compassionate, dedicated people to run them.
For a man who is on disability as a direct result of damage done to his brain, causing him to become somewhat bi-polar or even schizophrenic, but who can manage well provided he takes his medication, this is the perfect opportunity for him to supplement his income without penalty from the Social security people. He is not getting 'paid' wages to run a house, just free rent, all bills paid. Only a Founder is entitled to profit from residents and landlords. It is usually not a good idea to rely on an SSI pensioned founder. Too much can happen to cause him to not take his meds, and as a result, he relapses himself, or freaks out and becomes unreliable. But guys on SSI DO found houses. As long as you have a back up manager or someone to oversee the daily operations of the house you will be fine. But be sure you do or do it yourself.
The house I am currently managing is called "POWERHOUSE", after a part of the 11th Step where it says ..." praying only for the knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out." The name suggests you can come in to the house and if you are diligent about working a good 12 Step program, you will experience the 12 Promises and receive that power to guide you in your daily life and enable you to help others.
This is a very new and very strange thing for me to be doing, this blog. And I might not finish it. I might not blog past tomorrow. It depends on two things. 1. If I get any followers in short order and 2. If it proves to be more fun than a chore. My only real interest in this is helping someone in another state or even another part of the world open one or more houses for the vast ocean of people who will always need one.
So we will pick up tomorrow where we left off today, and in the mean time, I will see if I get any followers to write TO.
