Agency. Choice. Connection. Growth.

Recovery Day is an independent, community-based peer-support program of Littleton Community Services for people who are working toward recovery from substance use and building the lives they want to live.


Recovery Day begins with a simple principle: recovery is an active exercise of agency. Substance use can be influenced by dependence, trauma, environment, mental and physical health, relationships, social conditions, and many other circumstances. Recognizing those influences does not require us to surrender the idea that our choices matter. Whatever has brought someone to this point, Recovery Day begins from the premise that each person retains a meaningful role in deciding what happens next.


Participants are not required to identify as powerless, adopt a particular label, accept a particular explanation of addiction, or subscribe to a single philosophy of recovery. Recovery Day does not prescribe what recovery must look like. Instead, it provides a place for people to explore their experiences, consider the choices available to them, identify what they want for their lives, and determine which resources and forms of support are useful along the way.


What Happens at Recovery Day?

Recovery Day provides peer support, community, conversation, accountability, and encouragement in a welcoming environment where people can speak openly about recovery without being required to adopt a particular doctrine or belief system. Meetings use a topic-driven discussion format. Topics explore issues that can affect both recovery and the broader lives we are building, including honesty, authenticity, responsibility without shame, trust, fear, relationships, setbacks, asking for help, loneliness and connection, grief and loss, self-respect, boundaries, purpose, and building a life worth protecting. Two questions provide continuity from one meeting to the next:

  • What did you do this week that strengthened your recovery?
  • What do you want to work on during the week ahead? 


These questions keep the focus not only on where we have been, but also on what we are doing today and what we choose to do next.


Your Recovery Belongs to You

Recovery Day recognizes that people understand substance use differently and pursue recovery through different pathways. Participants remain free to determine which ideas, resources, relationships, and forms of support are useful in their own lives. Agency does not mean doing everything alone. Asking for help, accepting support, establishing boundaries, repairing relationships, seeking professional care, and connecting with other people can themselves be exercises of agency. Recovery Day's role is not to decide someone's recovery for them. It is to create a space where people can connect with others while continuing to make those decisions for themselves.


What Recovery Day Is — and Is Not

Recovery Day is peer support, not clinical treatment or therapy. It does not diagnose participants, provide medical or mental-health treatment, or substitute for professional care. The program is independent and community-based, with no religious or national affiliation. Participation does not require adherence to a particular spiritual, clinical, or recovery philosophy.


Recovery Day is free to attend. There is no donation basket, and participants are not expected to contribute financially.


Meetings

Recovery Day meets on Saturday mornings from 10:00–11:00 AM at the Littleton Public Library.


For September and October, meetings will be held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month:

  • Saturday, September 12, 2026
  • Saturday, September 26, 2026
  • Saturday, October 10, 2026
  • Saturday, October 24, 2026

10:00–11:00 AM

Littleton Public Library — McLure Program Room
92 Main Street
Littleton, New Hampshire


Beginning in November, Recovery Day intends to meet every Saturday morning, with individual dates posted here as they are confirmed with the Littleton Public Library.


There is no fee to attend, no registration is required, and participants are welcome to join us whether they are beginning to think about recovery, actively working toward it, or continuing to build upon recovery already underway.


Come as you are. Bring your experience. Decide what comes next.