Project Harmony - Meeker McLeod Sibley Counties

09/12/2026

Have a great weekend! And remember! You are not alone!

09/11/2026

Stigma can start with something as simple as the words we use.

People are not labels, diagnoses, or mistakes. Choosing person-first, respectful language can help create a community where people feel seen, supported, and safe enough to ask for help.

Words matter. Recovery matters. People matter.

09/11/2026

11 September

Bend with the wind
Page 265

"We learn to become flexible... As new things are revealed, we feel renewed."
Basic Text, p. 102
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"Flexibility" was not a part of the vocabulary we used in our using days. We'd become obsessed with the raw pleasure of our drugs and hardened to all the softer, subtler, more infinitely varied pleasures of the world around us. Our disease had turned life itself into a constant threat of jails, institutions, and death, a threat against which we hardened ourselves all the more. In the end we became brittle. With the merest breath of life's wind we crumbled at last, broken, defeated, with no choice but to surrender.

But the beautiful irony of recovery is that, in our surrender, we found the flexibility we had lost in our addiction, the very lack of which had defeated us. We regained the ability to bend in life's breeze without breaking. When the wind blew, we felt its loving caress against our skin, where once we would have hardened ourselves as if against the onrush of a storm.

The winds of life blow new airs our way each moment, and with them new fragrances, new pleasures, varied, subtly different. As we bend with life's wind, we feel and hear and touch and smell and taste all it has to offer us. And as new winds blow, we feel renewed.
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Just for Today: Higher Power, help me bend with life's wind and glory in its passing. Free me from rigidity.

09/04/2026

If we weren't trying to control how someone reacted to us, what would we do differently?

So much of what we do is quiet management. We soften our opinions, hold our tongue, and shrink ourselves a little, hoping that self-denial will nudge a person or situation our way. The letting go begins the moment we release our grip on someone else's response and start speaking and living from what's actually true for us. 💜

What have you been holding back while hoping it would change something outside your control?

09/01/2026

Article by:
Children and Family Futures

Recovery Happens Together

Recovery happens together through connection. Because addiction thrives in isolation, healing requires connection—built on relationships, belonging, and purpose. Research shows that meaningful human connection rewires the brain for resilience, hope, and sustainable recovery. When recovery housing, peer support, employment services, faith communities, and local organizations function as one coordinated network, they create the supportive environment necessary for lasting recovery. Every partnership strengthens this network, proving that together, healing is possible for everyone.

08/31/2026

08/21/2026

Go sign up for free diapers and hear about the services Birthright offers!

Please stop by booth #88 and see us! Register for a case of diapers and check our all the services we offer to young families!

08/20/2026

Project Harmony will be at the McLeod County Fair in Hutchinson this weekend, August 20, 21, 22 and 23!
We will also be conducting a survey to collect data for the Cannabis Research Center! Please stop by the Project Harmony/Meeker McLeod Sibley Community Health Services booth to participate in the survey and to hear more about Project Harmony and how we support moms in our communities!
We hope to see you there!

08/18/2026

Please share this resource for substance use prevention! 👀

It’s called a Hidden in Plain Sight display, and it’s available for communities, schools, organizations, and others to request.

The display helps caregivers, teachers, and others who work with youth learn about items and products that youth may be accessing and using while keeping them 'hidden in plain sight'. It provides an opportunity to see firsthand what to watch for and how to start important conversations with the youth in our lives.

📚 Knowledge is prevention! The more informed we are, the better prepared we can be to recognize warning signs, ask questions, and support our youth.

If your organization or community would like to request a Hidden in Plain Sight display, reach out to your local Public Health Educators to learn more or scan the QR code to request the display!