Vancouver’s Recovery Cafe is an ‘oasis in the desert’
Calen Carswel has been in recovery nearly as long as he’s been alive.
In 2001, he completed a 90-day residential treatment program that helped him stop using cocaine. Ever since, Carswel has been searching for a path to recover from the grief and manage his bipolar disorder diagnosis.Sometimes lately, though, his jolting journey glides to a pause at the Recovery Café, run by the non-profit Kettle Society.
With a permanent space in East Vancouver near Hastings and Clark that launched Friday, the café hopes to grow to support more than 300 people in recovery and run two circles per day. Recovery cafés aim to help ease these transitions and provide ongoing support to members after a crisis has subsided. The first one was founded in Seattle in 2003.
Chad de Regt, a former nurse and now mental health worker at the café, says sharing his passion for astrology with members by teaching them to read their birth charts has been healing for him, too.
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