Welcome to your September Newsletter!
Empowering you with information for your emotional and physical well-being.

September is National Recovery Month—a time to celebrate the millions of people whose lives have been transformed through recovery and to set a reminder that recovery is possible, meaningful, and worth celebrating.

For healthcare professionals in recovery, that message can carry an especially powerful meaning.

You know what it is like to care for others while navigating your own challenges. You know the pressure, the responsibility, the expectations, and the stigma that can make asking for help feel difficult. And you also know something else:

Recovery doesn't mean simply stopping a behavior; it is far more than just being sober!

Sobriety may be where the journey begins, but it doesn't have to be where the definition of recovery ends.

Recovery can mean waking up with clarity. It can mean rebuilding trust with the people we love. It can mean discovering who we are when we aren't defined by a substance, a diagnosis, a mistake, or a difficult chapter. It can mean learning how to rest without guilt, setting boundaries, asking for help, finding community, reconnecting with family, rediscovering joy, and developing the tools to navigate life without returning to old patterns. It can mean becoming healthier—not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, relationally, and professionally.

So, remember, recovery is not merely the absence of something. It is the presence of a life worth protecting.

For Healthcare Professionals: You Are More Than Your Worst Day

Healthcare professionals are often expected to be strong for everyone else. But being in recovery reminds us that strength doesn't always look like having all the answers. Sometimes strength looks like vulnerability. Sometimes it looks like accepting support. Sometimes it looks like recognizing that we cannot and should not do everything alone.

In many cases, recovery can deepen our understanding of compassion, humility, boundaries, resilience, and the importance of treating the whole person and the best part is that you can bring those lessons into your work!!

This Recovery Month, let's celebrate the whole story and by doing so, we are proud to introduce a new section in our newsletter entitled:

Recovery stories don't end when someone becomes sober. That's where a new chapter begins. So, beginning this month we will dedicate a section of our newsletter to you, our brave participants to share your own stories of victory, recovery, wellness, and second chances. We encourage each of you to share your stories with your Agreement Monitor who will redact and remove any identifying information and pass it along to be published in our newsletter.

We are very excited to present our very first two entries!

Participant #1

"We've had a pretty good week. We had our annual Crawfish Boil yesterday. Usually it's a big to do, but this summer has been so hectic that it was a sort of last-minute affair. But it was really fun. Got to catch up with friends, and our kids had a blast. It's fun because we started this 15 years ago, back when we were all young and kid free. And now it's becoming as much for the kids as it is for us. It's a fun transition.

It was cool too because my friends all brough non-alcoholic drinks. As you can imagine, a Crawfish Boil is a place where copious drinking would happen in the past, but everyone has made the transition without any issue.

I also had a great "man, not being drunk is awesome" moment. As I was setting everything up in the morning, my custom-made Boil Stirrer got caught on the cart and snapped in half. Before, when i was drinking so much, this would've been catastrophic to me. I likely would've spiraled with something like that happening–just giving up and drinking way too much. But now, I was definitely bummed, but then thought "C'mon [name], you can turn this around." So, I took it to the shop and patched it up with some wood glue and brackets. Now it's got this fearsome metal aspect to it, and I had a great day. It's just wild to see what a difference not being in that place makes."

Participant #2

"Busy week but navigating it well. I lost a favorite resident last week, so kinda sad about that. Also realized that old me probably would have gone for a beer rather than seeing him in the hospital before he died. Those were such a deep, meaningful moments I shared with him. Gifts of sobriety are real."

Please share your stories with us so that we may share them with others who may need it, too!

Here's to the wins, both big and small!

Here's to second chances, new beginnings, meaningful connections, and lives transformed.

And here's to every healthcare professional in recovery who continues to choose wellness, one day and one decision at a time.

Expand Your Knowledge—On Your Schedule

Staying current with continuing education doesn’t have to be complicated. Nurses and physicians can earn accredited, virtual continuing education credits through trusted programs such as IHI Open School, NetCE Continuing Education, and ABQAURP Online Continuing Education. These flexible, self-paced courses offer ANCC and/or AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ across a wide range of clinical, quality improvement, and professional topics—making it easier than ever to learn, grow, and meet licensure or certification requirements from anywhere.

Uprise Health Monitoring Monthly News & Updates

Monitoring Outreach

The Monitoring Team is scheduling informational sessions on Health Professionals' Services Programs (HPSP). If the administrators of your health care workplace, school, organization, or associations are interested in learning more about Professional Monitoring, please ask them to contact Program Manager Christa Lee, LMSW at christa.lee@uprisehealth.com or Account Manager Tina Mewhinney at tina.mewhinny@uprisehealth.com for more information or to schedule a meeting.

A Heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS

to all who are graduating this month—what a tremendous accomplishment! You've put in the hard work, and it's a moment to truly celebrate.

If you’ve found monitoring helpful in supporting your day-to-day consistency and success, we want you to know that support doesn’t have to end here. Our extended monitoring program, now called Uprise Health Monitoring, is available as an option—whether you choose to continue now or return at a later time. We're here to walk with you through the next phase of your journey, whenever you're ready.

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Highlighted Resource

Building Hope: A Guided Journal

This guided journal offers simple prompts to help you reflect on your emotions, recognize your strengths, set small achievable goals, and identify sources of support. Designed to be used at your own pace, it encourages hopeful thinking by helping you acknowledge challenges, explore possible next steps, and notice progress along the way during stressful or uncertain times.

Questions?
Our Monitoring Team is here to support you.

Please contact your assigned agreement monitor
or email: Monitoring@uprisehealth.com