Let's get cookin' with Robert Debruin!
Meet Robert Debruin, serving the community as our new Chairman of the Board of Directors. Central Valley Recovery Services, Inc. is grateful for the work Robert performs for the men and women in our care.
Armondo Apodaca served us for two years as Chairman for which we are extremely grateful. Armondo, thank you for all you did and continue to do for the recovery community.
"The bad news is time flies, the good news is your the pilot"
Michael Altschuler
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstien
Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.
Larry Michael Dredla
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
T. S. Elliot
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
Maimonides
Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you
Aldous Huxley
When you have a choice to make and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
Carrie Fisher
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Mahatma Gandhi
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. Lewis
Where there is life, there is hope.
Ron Grover
Don’t let the past steal your present.
Terri Guillemets
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese proverb
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Katharine Hepburn
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Roger Babson
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Zen proverb
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
Brian Tracy
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.
Demi Lovato
Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.
Kevin McCormack
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
Jean Giraudoux
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.
Kate Le Page
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while, there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
James Freeman Clarke
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.
Leon Brown
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Dr. Phil
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Preference shall be given to pregnant and parenting individuals seeking services within alcohol and other drug treatment programs. If you are pregnant or parenting, seeking help, please contact Tulare County Alcohol and Other Drug programs to learn more about priority services available to you. Call 559.636.4000 to speak to a substance use disorder specialist.
