Testimonials
If the club has made a significant impact in your life or contributed in a meaningful way to your recovery, we would like to hear about it! Please email us at executives@easydoesitclub.org if you have a story that you think would be a useful contribution to this page.
D.M.DILLON
Aloha my name is Michael and I have been a member of the EDI for 16 years off and on. Upon coming to the club I was seeking refuge from a storm of my own creation. From this facility I met many people of all walks of Life. And the theme has always been there is a shelter here in these dark days . I was met with Challenges to my world view and Laughter and many tears. I learned to be a productive member of this community by listening to those who walked this path before me. I am a work in progress and I owe it to the staff of the Club who kept the doors open for me and many others. I hope to continue to support the people who come to the club seeking a better way to live.
Always Grateful
Terry W
I retired and started attending daily morning or noon meetings at the current EDIC location. I volunteered to be membership secretary but got talked into becoming treasurer. I have stayed involved in the Club since. A geriatric specialist said that people who retire and don’t have a reason to wake up every morning, tend to not wake up for too many more mornings. I still love my coffee in the morning and going to a morning meeting. There are always many things to do at EDIC. I am grateful that EDIC gives me a place to be of service and to meet so many people on the way to sobriety and to make new friends.
Dan M
I was not able to stop drinking or using drugs on my own, despite how much my addiction had ruined my life. Treatment was the safe place that I needed to regain my health and my dignity. I knew that I was safe there but feared I would relapse when the day came for me to leave that bubble. Luckily I had tried to get sober before and knew some people who were living successful lives free of drugs and alcohol. I reached out to them and started going to meetings with them at the Sur-Del Easy Does it Club a month prior to leaving treatment. I moved in with some of those sober friends and continued going to meetings at the club. I then signed up to volunteer at the club, considering it a wise investment in my ongoing sobriety. The sense of connection and purpose that I got from the EDIC were invaluable to me at the time. My fear gave way to a healthy routine and a sense of community that continues to be an important part of my life today. The club, it’s meetings, and the people who attend them were there for me when I needed them the most. I have no doubt in my mind that I owe at least a part of my life and happiness to the Easy Does It Club and the people who work hard to keep its doors open.
Parm J
My name is Parm J and I am an alcoholic.
On January 10 of 2002, alone, afraid and hopelessly lost I walked into the Sur-Del easy Does it Club in Surrey, BC for the very first time. Here I found member volunteers that would guide me to a wonderful new way of living without fear or worry. Long term members through their actions show a new way of living life rather than merely existing from day to day.
My Parents, my siblings, my children, my friends and loved ones all thank the club for the miracles of recovery that have occurred in our homes and our hearts.
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Today I show my gratitude for a new life by volunteering at the Edi club and being a living example of what is possible both personally and professionally with a little help from members of our community
If you or someone you know is affected by addiction and life seems hopeless, please come visit us at your earliest convenience, you never have to feel that way again.
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Discover the freedom that many of us have found here at the Sur-Del Easy Does it Club.
Susan C
In September 2023 my daughter entered the Back on Track recovery house called Robins Nest in Surrey BC. She flew from our Yukon home and she completed a 3 month program there and when I visited at Christmas 2023 I took her to the EDIC again (she had visited a few times in 2016-18 because I got sober in Surrey in 2016). Because of my connection to the EDIC want return to 12 step meetings there whenever I can. It was so nice to return to a meeting with my daughter in early recovery - at this point I lived in the Yukon and was doing everything I could to stay connected with my daughter and to get her recovery supports in her community in Newton.
In January 2024 the EDIC installed zoom equipment and set up a meeting that I could participate in from up north. It was amazing to reconnect and support my daughter in her early recovery! I am pleased to share that she recently celebrated a year clean and sober and that her daughter and I relocated to Surrey in August 2024 to help them reconnect after years apart due to addiction.
I am very thankful to be back in Surrey and part of the recovery community that supported me in my early days and I hope to give back all that God will let me!! Most of all I am thankful for the fact that families do recover and it’s possible for any one and everyone to recover with the right supports and care.
I want to find more ways to help others. So thankful to be sober and to the EDIC for their support in connecting remote places and people who return to isolated places to stay connected and to be supported so they can recover from addiction and alcoholism.
God Bless the EDIC!