No One Does it Alone.
The members of this group volunteer their time and talents to maintain our website, develop materials for, organize and facilitate our meetings and hold space for all those who need it along their journey through recovery.
This group was started by a handful of alumni from the WellBridge Addiction Treatment Facility in Calverton, NY who’s recovery greatly benefited from the patient-led Dharma group at WellBridge. In an effort to sustain the momentum of healing they began together, the core group of alumni responsible for creating EVO Recovery Dharma needed a place to continue their recovery journeys where they could explore the root causes of their addiction in an inclusive, empathetic and most importantly, safe environment. None of our facilitators are Buddhist teachers or have any specific authority in a Buddhist community.
However, all of us are committed to following the Eight-Fold Path and understand that by tracing the origins of our dissatisfaction, unhappiness or pain, we can weed out of our minds the root causes of the suffering that addiction can cause. We do so in order to develop our understanding of life and of ourselves so as to learn and practice the karmic advantage of compassion, lovingkindness, appreciative joy & equanimity so we may live a more ethical and mindful life that is as free from suffering as possible.
While we offer our meditation sessions and group meetings free, we do rely on the financial support of those in our community who are able to give so we can continue helping others on their journey through recovery. The cost of maintaining this website and the technology driven infrastructure that makes all of this possible is minimal and the time our volunteers spend crafting and facilitating the important work we do here as well as planning and organizing group activities is shared amongst our members, we could do none of this and we are forever grateful for the support, encouragement and generosity of all who give.
If you could like to support the work we do here, we have set up a separate Patreon Community to make it easier to do so and where members will have access to a variety of resources created and produced by members of our community.
We understand connection to be the opposite of addiction and that no one can have meaningful and lasting success in recovery on their own. This is why we are humbly asking those who can to please consider donating to support the work we do here and from the bottom our hearts, we thank you for your support.