Unity Through Recovery

05/29/2026

Listen... every once in a while life sends you a person that makes you wonder how they manage to fit 37 hours into a 24-hour day. 🤔😂
Amanda Marie Nichols is one of those people.
Community Health Worker. ❤️ Peer Support. 🤝 Piercer. ✨ Community Activist. 📢 Second Chance Prom Queen (okay, planner... but still 👑). Dog Mom. 🐾 Recovery Advocate. 💜 Professional "Sure, I'll help with that" person. 😆
Somewhere between meetings, events, outreach, advocacy, planning, volunteering, and changing lives, Amanda became one of my favorite people to serve beside.
When the Southern Kentucky Reentry Council brought us together to create Recovery in UNITY, I knew it would be something special. What I didn't know was how much I would come to appreciate her heart, dedication, creativity, and ability to make things happen.
If you attended Recovery in UNITY in the last years you saw the event. What you didn't see were the countless hours, texts, calls, brainstorming sessions, stress, laughter, and determination that Amanda poured into making it happen.
She is the kind of person who sees a need and immediately asks, "How can I help?"
The kind of person who believes people deserve second chances.
The kind of person who reminds us that recovery isn't just about staying clean and sober—it's about building community, creating connection, and making sure nobody has to walk alone.
Amanda, thank you for your friendship, your partnership, and your willingness to dream big with me. The recovery community is stronger because of people like you.
And if I've learned anything over the last year, it's this:
We are DEFINITELY not done yet. 😎
September 5, 2026... we're coming for you. 💜🤝

05/29/2026

Rachel & Amanda

05/28/2026

Giving back

Snapshot Monday ✨🎤.

Shoutout to one of our former clients who is a cosmetologist and took time out of her day to come back and provide clients with a free haircut.

Thank you, LEXI! We appreciate you 💗.

How good is God watching her recovery come full circle 👌💪🏼👑 nothing short of a blessing 💗✨

“Recovery is not just about staying sober ourselves it’s about reaching back and helping the next person still struggling. Service keeps us grateful, grounded, and connected.”

See the smile on her face 😘 DO IT BECAUSE YOU GET TOO !

God is good

❤️
BGR

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

💜 Rachel Wheat Jackson
is the definition of resilience, purpose, and recovery in action. What began as the Freedom Through Recovery Rally, built from her vision and determination to bring hope and connection to the recovery community, eventually evolved into what many now know as Unity Through Recovery. Through her passion, leadership, and relentless dedication to helping others, she helped create more than an event. She helped create a movement.
Rachel fought her way out of the depths of addiction and rebuilt her life from the ground up. She did not allow her past to define her future. Instead, she turned pain into purpose and became a living example of what recovery, perseverance, and healing can truly look like. While overcoming her own struggles, she put herself through college, earned her degree, and dedicated her life to serving others walking similar paths.
Today, Rachel is a respected clinical therapist, recovery advocate, mentor, mother, wife, and community leader whose impact reaches far beyond a title or profession. Her career journey reflects years of compassion-driven work in mental health, recovery support, family advocacy, social work, and community outreach. From mental health technician to community support specialist, social work case manager, family advocate, and now clinical therapist, every step of her journey has been rooted in helping people find hope, stability, and healing.
But what makes Rachel truly extraordinary is not just her professional accomplishments. It is her authenticity, her compassion, and her ability to connect with people through lived experience. She understands the struggle because she lived it. She understands hopelessness because she survived it. And because of that, she has become a trusted voice, a mentor to many, and a powerful force within the recovery community.
Rachel Wheat Jackson stands as proof that recovery is possible, transformation is real, and even the darkest chapters of life can become the foundation for something beautiful and life-changing. Through Unity Through Recovery and her continued work in the community, she continues to inspire others to fight for themselves, believe in healing, and never give up on the possibility of a better life.

05/28/2026

05/08/2026

The community partners at A New Path Recovery Home for Women are looking for board members for the upcoming fiscal year!! Sound like something you'd be interested in, submit your inquiry today!!

Help us build new paths and brighter futures.

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Help us build new paths and brighter futures.
Interested in serving on the New Path Recovery Home Board of Directors?
Email us at: [email protected]
Quarterly Meetings • Volunteer Opportunities • Strategic Planning

Click the link below to inquire and submit your application.

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05/06/2026

The Hub in Letcher is hosting a "Steps Works Group" via Zoom. It606) will happen each Tuesday at 6:00pm through June 16, 2026. If you have questions, please call The Hub at (606) 216-0071.

01/04/2026

Fighting together to come out alive!

01/03/2026

Unity Through Recovery means supporting Unity 🤝 in our COMMUNITY. Recovery provides the opportunity to get involved 🙏 outside of 12 step meetings or support groups... its because of those foundations that we are able to show up on a larger scale and contribute to the Recovery of others in a different way. FROZEN 4 was the biggest turnout to provide assistance towards the medical cost of a local youth injured in a car accident. Today can be your one day or day one... you choose!