Goodman Addiction Services

05/27/2026

05/19/2026

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Free breakfast and lunch meals will be available for students through Minot Public Schools at the locations and dates listed below. Students do NOT need to attend that school to receive meals.

Meals are available for students 18 and younger, and served Mondays through Fridays.

Breakfast: 7:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Lunch: 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Washington Lunch: 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Longfellow & Perkett Lunch: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

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Thank you to Minot Public Schools for helping make sure kids are fed all summer long.

* School meals are closed July 2nd and 3rd.

04/27/2026

I wonder if services like Amazon Prime and instant-gratification culture have made us deeply impatient. We hand over our hard-earned cash for the fastest possible outcomes. We live in a fast-food economy, where we’re no longer willing to make reservations or wait in long lines. We want what we want, now.

This doesn’t stop at overnight shipping and drive-throughs. We want instant success, immediate responses to texts, and for our posts to go viral overnight. And so when something takes longer than expected, when the relationship hasn’t arrived, the work hasn’t landed, the healing hasn’t progressed, the dream is still just a dream, it’s easy to read that as a sign that something is wrong with you. That you’re behind. That others are moving and you’re standing still.

But some things require a longer becoming. An oak tree doesn’t apologize for how long it takes to grow, nor does it doubt the process. In its earliest years, most of the work is happening underground, roots pushing deeper, anchoring wider, building the kind of stability that will one day let it stand through storms that flatten everything around it. What you can’t see yet isn’t nothing. It’s everything.

Many healthy long-term relationships happen not because two perfect, fully healed people met at exactly the right time. They’re often formed because two people met at a stage where they were self-aware enough to open up, humble enough to grow, and willing enough to build together. Had they met years earlier, they may have been carrying wounds they didn’t yet understand, repeating patterns they hadn’t yet broken, or sabotaging something they were not ready to receive.

The version of you that’s ready to hold what you’re asking for is still being shaped by exactly what you’re going through right now. Now that doesn’t make the waiting easy or the uncertainty comfortable. But it does mean that the timeline you’re grieving might be the very thing the Universe is using to build something in you that can actually sustain what’s coming.

01/23/2026

Your hard seasons don’t erase beauty. Pain narrows your vision. Presence widens it. Notice the hot shower washing the weight off your shoulders, or the quiet evening that finally lets your nervous system rest. The moment you pay attention to the small goodness again, healing has already started.

01/08/2026

We live in a world that teaches us to celebrate what we can buy, but when life is over, people will celebrate how you made them feel. Your warmth, kindness, and integrity. The way you showed up when it mattered.

We’re encouraged to chase success that looks good from the outside. Promotions, possessions, milestones that signal we’ve “made it.” Yet the impact that truly lasts is softer, such as the patience you showed when someone was struggling, the compassion you offered when it would have been easier to walk away, and the way you treated people when there was nothing to gain.

Somewhere along the way, we started measuring wealth by what’s visible, forgetting that the greatest riches are often the quietest. They live in what we give, like a listening ear, a gentle word, or a presence that makes others feel safe, seen, and valued. And they live in what we hold, the breath in our lungs, inner peace, and a sense of wholeness.

Of course, financial security matters, and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the things you’re drawn to and have worked hard for. These things can bring comfort and joy, support your growth and healing, and create opportunity. But when success becomes only about what you own and what’s external, you risk missing the deeper purpose of why you’re here at all: to love, uplift, and leave people better than you found them.

At the end of your life, the majority won’t measure your legacy in possessions, but in hearts touched. Not in status, but in service. Not in applause, but in the gentle gratitude of those whose lives were changed by your kindness.

That is real wealth. And the beautiful truth is, you don’t have to wait to be rich one day. You become wealthy every time you choose compassion, empathy, and love, even when it would be easier to choose indifference, ego, and cruelty.