Vida Spiritual Learning Center

Vida Spiritual Learning Center We provide spiritual support for people in recovery! This One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is not absorbed by Its creation.

What We Believe
By Ernest Holmes, 1927

We believe in God, the living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. We believe in the individualization of the Spirit in Us, and that all people are individualizations of the One Spirit. We believe in t

he eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. We believe that heaven is within us, and that we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete freedom from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all. We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God. We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling presence. We believe in the direct revelation of truth through our intuitive and spiritual nature, and that anyone may become a revealer of truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God. We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it. We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind. We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind. We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to all. We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.

Let that sit for a second.Because a lot of us spent years — decades — believing we were the problem. Too much. Too sensi...
06/18/2026

Let that sit for a second.

Because a lot of us spent years — decades — believing we were the problem. Too much. Too sensitive. Too needy. Too intense. Too difficult.

So we made ourselves smaller. More palatable. Easier to be around. We twisted ourselves into whatever shape the people around us needed and called it love.

And when that still wasn't enough — when people still left, still hurt us, still chose everything over us — we took that as confirmation.

See. I knew it. I am too much.

But here is what I want you to really hear today.

You were never too much.

You were just in the wrong rooms. With the wrong people. Receiving the wrong things and being told that was all love looked like.

It isn't.

Love does not require you to shrink. It does not keep score. It does not arrive with conditions attached or disappear when you finally have a need of your own.

What you experienced wasn't love at its fullest.

It was love at its most limited. And you deserved better then.

You deserve better now.

Part of recovery is unlearning what you were taught love feels like — and building the courage to demand something real.

That is the work we do at Vida. Learn more at vidaslc.org 🤍

06/17/2026

Some of us survived by staying ready for everything to go wrong. 🤍 Always pushing. Always bracing. Always fighting. And it worked... until it didn't. Survival mode kept you alive. But it was never meant to be your forever. 💙

What they didn't see was a child who never got to just be a child. Who was too busy taking care of everyone else to figu...
06/16/2026

What they didn't see was a child who never got to just be a child.

Who was too busy taking care of everyone else to figure out what they actually needed.

Who learned that their value lived entirely in what they could do for other people.

And then you grew up.

And you had no idea who you were when nobody needed anything from you.

That is not a personality trait.

That is a wound with a really good disguise.

And it follows you — into your relationships, your career, your recovery — until someone finally helps you see it for what it is.

You deserved to be taken care of too.

It is not too late to learn what that feels like.

That is the work we do at Vida. Learn more at vidaslc.org 🤍

06/15/2026

You can't shame yourself into peace. You can't overthink your way into alignment. 🤍 But you CAN recalibrate. 3 times today, just pause and ask: "What am I trying to force right now?" Then breathe. That's it. That's the practice. Follow for more.

What was never said to you mattered. What was never given to you mattered. What you needed and never received — that mat...
06/14/2026

What was never said to you mattered. What was never given to you mattered. What you needed and never received — that mattered.

And it is not too late to grieve it. To name it. To finally stop pretending it didn't shape you.

We hold space for all of it at Vida. Learn more at vidaslc.org 🤍

It kept you sharp. Watchful. Ready for whatever came next. It helped you get through things that should have broken you....
06/13/2026

It kept you sharp. Watchful. Ready for whatever came next. It helped you get through things that should have broken you. And it worked — for a long time.

But here's the thing about survival mode.

It doesn't know when the war is over.

So it just keeps going. Keeps scanning for danger. Keeps bracing for impact. Keeps you up at 3am solving problems that haven't happened yet. Keeps you distant from the people you love most because closeness still feels like a risk.

You're sober now. You're safe now. And your nervous system still hasn't gotten the memo.

That's not a character flaw. That's a system that did its job so well it forgot how to stop.

The next chapter of your recovery isn't about surviving better.

It's about learning — slowly, gently, imperfectly — what it feels like to actually rest inside your own life.

You made it through. Now you get to figure out what living actually feels like.
That's the work we do at Vida. Learn more at vidaslc.org 🤍

06/12/2026

Discipline won't fix a depleted spirit. 🔥 Spiritual recalibration will. I'm so glad you are HERE. Follow along as we explore this deeper all year.

Read that again.Because so many people in recovery walk around carrying shame about who they were — like addiction was a...
06/11/2026

Read that again.

Because so many people in recovery walk around carrying shame about who they were — like addiction was a character flaw instead of a hiding place.

You weren't broken. You were protecting something. A person who felt too much in a world that didn't make room for it. A soul that needed relief and reached for the only thing that worked.

The journey back isn't about fixing who you are.

It's about finding who you always were underneath it.

That person never left. They were just waiting for safe enough to come back out.

And that — right there — is the most sacred work of recovery.

Learn more about how we support that journey at vidaslc.org 🤍

Socialization told you that keeping everyone comfortable was your job.So you did. You kept the peace. You made yourself ...
06/10/2026

Socialization told you that keeping everyone comfortable was your job.

So you did. You kept the peace. You made yourself easy. You needed less. And when that got too heavy to carry — you found something to help you carry it.

That's not weakness. That's what happens when you were handed a job that was never yours to begin with.

Here's what sobriety doesn't automatically fix: the beliefs underneath. The ones that said shrink, smooth it over, don't need too much. Those beliefs don't leave just because the substance does.

That part takes a different kind of work. And that's exactly what we do at Vida.
If you are ready to put down more than just the substance — follow along. We'll see you inside. 🤍

→ vidaslc.org

06/09/2026

Peace isn't something you force, it's something you return to. Are you ready to stop fighting yourself? 🤍 Save this if you needed to hear it.

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