Structure you can live inside
Not a treatment program — a way of running a home so that early recovery has somewhere solid to stand.
Why structure works
Almost everyone arrives here from somewhere structured — detox, treatment, incarceration — or from somewhere with no structure at all. Both are dangerous in the same way: the day has no shape, and an unshaped day in early recovery fills itself with the old life.
So the house gives the day a shape. Wake-ups happen at wake-up time. Chores get done before work. Meetings get attended, and somebody notices if they don’t. Dinner is at a table with other people. Curfew closes the day the same way it opened.
The schedule isn’t the recovery. It’s the scaffolding that holds you up while you build one.
None of this is complicated, and that’s the point. Recovery research keeps finding the same thing: routines, accountability, and community predict who stays sober. We just run a home where all three are unavoidable.
A typical week
- Every day — wake-up by 8, chores, work or program, dinner most nights together, curfew at 11.
- Midweek — house meeting: schedules, disputes, wins, and who needs backup this week.
- Three times a week, minimum — recovery meetings of your choosing, verified.
- Randomly — screening. Not a gotcha; the reason everyone sleeps soundly.
- Sunday — visiting hours, shared cooking, and the one lie-in of the week.
Three commitments, both directions
Everything in the house rulebook is one of these three, applied.
Honesty first
Say the true thing early — about cravings, slips, money, everything. Nothing here gets worse by being said out loud.
Steadiness over intensity
No boot-camp theatrics. The same reasonable expectations, held every single day, for months.
Community as safety net
A house full of people who know your name, your schedule, and your warning signs — and expect you at dinner.
See if the program fits your recovery.
A quick, judgment-free conversation — where you are, what you need, and whether our home is the right fit.