{"id":137060,"date":"2023-01-20T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=137060"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:33:16","slug":"new-peer-support-group-for-addiction-recovery-offered-in-terrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/new-peer-support-group-for-addiction-recovery-offered-in-terrace\/","title":{"rendered":"New peer support group for addiction recovery offered in Terrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new peer support group has been created to help those in recovery from addiction as a form of second stage treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Serenity Seekers is a new drop in support group organized by members of the Gitlaxdax Nisga\u2019a Terrace Society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angela Scodane, an outreach worker with the society says that having the support of people who may be experiencing similar feelings can help further recovery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scodane says that after a conversation with a client\u2019s sister, they both thought it would be a good idea to start a program that can support people who are in all stages of their sobriety.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having a support system who understands the process is something Scodane says can help with the harder days of sobriety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"People don't have those family members or friends where they could turn to and just release themselves and talk about what they're actually going through,\" Scodane says.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's our first trial run to see where and how we can go about to make it stronger,\" <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scodane said about the possibility of doing drumming and smudging sessions in the future to add a traditional healing element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first Serenity Seekers will be held on Jan. 25 from 6-8 p.m. at the Gitlaxdax Nisga\u2019a Terrace Society office, after that, they will gather every second Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Angela Scodane below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new peer support group has been created to help those in recovery from addiction as a form of second stage treatment.\u00a0 Serenity Seekers is a new drop in support group organized by members of the Gitlaxdax Nisga\u2019a Terrace Society.\u00a0 Angela Scodane, an outreach worker with the society says that having the support of people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":137076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[22667,17753,17981],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137109,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137060\/revisions\/137109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137060"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=137060"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=137060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}