It's open to all.
at the corner of East Evans Avenue and South Lafayette Street. For Tami Canaday, who co-founded and co-owns the organization with her husband, Ryan, the cafe is the next step in supporting the community the couple spent the past four years building.
Now, he’s maintained his sobriety for almost nine years, relapsing just once. Tami recalls her own struggle to find ways to support her husband in his recovery, noting that she felt excluded from the traditional twelve step approach that focuses on sponsor/sponsee relationships and less on family. She wanted to be a part of her husband's recovery without coming across as nagging, which led the couple to start the Free Spiritual Community.
Incorporating coffee into the Free Spiritual Community just made sense, Tami adds, partly because there's always coffee at twelve-step meetings — around 90 percent of those in recovery are coffee drinkers."The coffee is great, and this is my way, my avenue, of reaching out and affecting people’s lives because helping people is what it’s really about for me," she says.
Free is non-denominational, so although it hosts meetings for a variety of groups like Al-Anon, the organization itself does not adhere to any one type of religious belief."We do not promote ourselves as a church — we are a spiritual or recovery center — because of the baggage that comes with religion," Tami notes.
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