What We Understand As Love & Service

First of all, let's be real. What anyone gets or doesn't get out of community living is up to them.  In one word, what is contributed to the day-to-day process otherwise, is environment. Environment is a huge factor in recovery life. For example friends, nearby neighbors or even job-related acquaintances who still participate in harmful substance use or unhealthy habits make the recovery journey significantly more challenging. We all know that life outside of a support group or beyond the walls of a treatment center or sober living facility makes it impossible to avoid exposure to harmful behaviors and potential triggers. We all also know that no one feels like staying sober 24/7. And yet all of us are capable of doing so. So how do we give ourselves the very best possible chance?

What we all can do is share sober successes. Show up with a willingness to equally be, and follow a good example. Encourage and congratulate us all, including ourselves, too. Living with housemates who do so, we all end up doing so more often , in a wider variety of ways, and with better and better quality of shared successful sober experience as the outcome for all involved.

In this environment love and service looks like paying  careful attention in close proximity. We want you to leave here saying you'll never have better neighbors. We're here to bear compassionate witness to your next sober life chapter and lend a truly helpful hand. We're here to notice and support what's actually proving to be effective and useful. And that encouragement thing...we're happy to report it's contagious. In the long run, love and service looks like trusting the process by discovering what actually works and working it, one day at a time.

If there's one thing we've learned about recovery, it's that you're never in it alone. Why not make it easy to acknowledge the good neighbors available at every turn? Why not live in the company of those similarly well-intentioned? 

Why not sleep where you're supported?