Experts at the Betty Ford Institute convened a panel close to twenty years ago to formulate a working definition of recovery for the 21st century. They determined that recovery is a voluntarily maintained lifestyle characterized by sobriety, personal health, and citizenship that includes three components: functional recovery means the remission of symptoms, personal recovery means participating in daily life, and social recovery means creating a solid, supportive, sober social support network.
A sober living home leverages the progress you make during formal treatment – your functional recovery – and helps you make a solid start on the next two phases of your recovery journey: personal recovery and social recovery. It’s essential to have a practical plan to help you sustain recovery, and a supportive environment to take those initial – and often frightening – steps toward your new life in sobriety.