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School for Recovery: Trauma-informed Yoga on the Mat

2/22/2021

Thank you, Annie, for yet another great class!

Recovery Cafe Volunteer Training: Listening in the Time of Trauma with Linda Little, PhD

2/19/2021

Thank you to Linda Little, PhD for facilitating this month's training!

School for Recovery: Yoga

2/11/2021

Join Recovery Cafe staff member Annie virtually for trauma-informed yoga!

This is a long story. It spans, roughly, the half-century between the mid-1960s and 2008. Think, Kennedy assassination to Obama inauguration. Think, three channels of black and white television plugged into the wall, to video streaming around the clock to smartphones all over the earth.

At the center of this story, in the center of that time, is Robert Komishane. It’s 1987. He’s a bright and gentle man in his 30s, a poet/philosopher. An intellectual who finds himself with a single option.

“If I stay with my parents the rest of my life or as long as they live, and live like a child, don’t go out, just be with them, it won’t be much of a life, but at least I won’t have to go through the other things.”

Recovery Cafe Volunteer Training: Medical Aspects of Recovery

1/15/2021

Thank you to Douwe Rienstra, MD for facilitating this month's training. Learn more about his clinical practice at http://rienstraclinic.com.

Recovery Cafe Volunteer Training: Suicide Prevention & Intervention

11/20/2020

Big thank you to Valerie Phimister and Patrick Johnson of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) JeffCo for facilitating this training on Suicide Prevention & Intervention. And special thanks to Robert Komishane for sharing his personal experience. To learn more about NAMI JeffCo, visit http://namijeffcowa.org.

Nonprofits ramp up outreach

11/15/2020

Peninsula Daily News
By Nicholas Johnson

PORT TOWNSEND – After more than six months of searching for an affordable place to rent, Brian Thompson and his two small dogs found themselves with no place to go June 1, more than two months into the coronavirus pandemic.

Read here: https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/nonprofits-ramp-up-outreach/

Chef Troy Murrell with Bayside Housing and Services, left, hands a hot meal to Janna Hall on Sunday at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds campground in Port Townsend. Hall, who has bipolar disorder, said she has been homeless in Port Townsend for eight years and currently lives in a tent at the fairgrounds. (Nicholas Johnson/Peninsula Daily News)

Hollow Moon headlines Recovery Cafe fundraiser

11/6/2020

A small crowd gathers for the Recovery Cafe’s concert fundraiser.
LEADER PHOTO BY LUCIANO MARANO

Leader news staff
news@ptleader.com

The Port Hadlock foursome Hollow Moon performed outside Dove House Advocacy Service’s Recovery Cafe Monday, Oct. 26, part of a semi-virtual fundraiser for the nonprofit’s “Deck out Recovery Cafe!” effort.

Read here: https://www.ptleader.com/stories/hollow-moon-headlines-recovery-cafe-fundraiser,72092

Hollow Moon Live at Recovery Cafe

10/28/2020

Check out this recording of live music outside Recovery Cafe! This was the final of four events for our Deck Out Recovery Cafe fundraiser. Thank you to Hollow Moon for their fabulous performance. Thank you to John Miller for putting this video together. And thank you to Trinity United Methodist Church in Port Townsend for use of their Vimeo account to live-stream this event.