Mid-Iowa Triumph
Recovery Center Inc.
Come see us at the Triumph Center,
and we will open your eyes to
mental health recovery and hope.
We are a peer-run drop-in center for anyone 18 and older, who is or has been dealing with mental/emotional issues from Marshall County.
It is a free, safe place for peers to work on their mental recovery, including veterans and those with substance misuse disorder. We provide services to improve their quality of life, group support, education, recreational activities, and peer networking.
Mission
The mission of the Triumph Recovery Center is to empower peers and help them improve their own quality of life through education, advocacy, and support. We strive to fight the stigma of mental illness through community outreach and involvement. We maintain mental health stability through peer support.
What We Do
Movies
Excursions
Potlucks
Volunteering
Socialize
Games
Crafts
Computers
Peer Advocacy
Education
Members sit in front of the “Love Me Wall,”
which displays achievements as members
Goals of the Triumph Center
Have peers and qualified individuals lead social, educational, and recreational activities.
Have peer staff resources available to educate and assist with their mental illness, including referrals.
Assist peers with the transition from hospital to home and social atmospheres.
We promote wellness and whole health.
To continually help peers with their recovery and transitions.
“The only think more exhausting
than having a mental illness,
is pretending like you don’t.”
- Phoebe Allegra Bangle (Author)
Mid-Iowa Triumph Recovery Center
204 E. Linn St. Suite A, P.O. Box 1774
Marshalltown, IA 50158
Executive Director Sharon Swope: 641-750-5724
mitrc5015864@gmail.com
"Piglet?" said Pooh.
"Yes?" said Piglet.
"I'm scared," said Pooh.
For a moment, there was silence.
"Would you like to talk about it?" asked Piglet, when Pooh didn't appear to be saying anything further.
"I'm just so scared," blurted out Pooh.
"So anxious. Because I don't feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry, because they're so scared, and they're turning on one another, and there seems to be no clear plan out of here, and I worry about my friends and the people I love, and I wish SO much that I could give them all a hug, and oh, Piglet! I am so scared, and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn't so."
Piglet was thoughtful, as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the Hundred Acre Wood, and listened to his friend.
"I'm here," he said, simply. "I hear you, Pooh. And I'm here.
"But... aren't you going to tell me not to be so silly? That I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together? That it's hard for everyone right now?"
"No," said Piglet, quite decisively. "No, I am very much not going to do any of those things."
Add a “But - " said Pooh.
"I can't change the world right now," continued Piglet. "And I am not going to patronize you with platitudes about how everything will be okay because I don't know that.
"What I can do, though, Pooh, is that I can make sure that you know that I am here. And that I will always be here, to listen; and to support you; and for you to know that you are heard.
"I can't make those Anxious Feelings go away, not really.
"But I can promise you that, all the time I have breath left in my body...you won't ever need to feel those anxious feelings alone."
And it was a strange thing, because even as Piglet said that, Pooh could feel some of those Anxious Feelings start to loosen their grip on him and could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend, who sat there stolidly next to him.
Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life.
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