Our T.E.A.M. Approach to Recovery

(Together Everyone Achieves More)

We work closely with people with quality sobriety from the recovery community and peers who are residents to create a community and culture of support and help. We believe the process works when a person completes a fearless and searching moral inventory and then applies the principles of recovery to their daily living. Once this is accomplished we believe that person has an obligation to pass their knowledge on to another still suffering alcoholic/addict.

Our Vision:

We are a compassionate recovery community devoted to helping people help themselves, and each other, through meaningful participation in a dignified healing process. We approach the recovery process as one that encompasses body, mind and soul and our person-centered approach is a simple, basic offering that relies on a concrete, simple and repetitive message to provide a dignified place and setting for one alcoholic/addict in recovery to help another alcoholic/addict find a path to recovery.

Our Mission:

Our mission is to help restore the lives of men and woman seeking sobriety, reduce their chances for relapse, and ease their transition back into everyday life. We do this by helping them grow into recovery, and into a changed way of life, one day at a time, in a serene, pastoral, spiritual setting with support to allow this transformation to occur.

More on Our Approach to Recovery

Many of our residents held firm to the belief that just getting off the drugs/alcohol for a few days would solve their problem. While detoxification is a first step on the road to successful recovery, physical detoxification alone is not sufficient to change the ingrained, conditioned patterns of living experienced by our residents. At Webster Place Recovery Center we believe recovery from addiction involves an extended process that requires the help of recovering individuals and addiction professionals.

Research into the effects of long-term addiction shows that substantial change in the way the brain functions are present long after the resident has stopped using. This confirms that the resident needs more than just medical detoxification; they need emotional, psychological and spiritual healing as well. Some residents hold out for this complex process to work itself out simply with determination and willpower. Believing the addiction can be broken without outside help and new tools is the distortion of perception that a resident's addiction relied on to keep them from ever finding true breakthrough. Humbling one's self, and admitting the need for help is the first step to real freedom. Time away from the substance and time away from the environments the substance is available in allow the resident to acquire new tools in order to deal with situations and problems which arise. A significant change in attitude and focus on life is needed to achieve this lifestyle change and while professional guidance is an effective resource, we hold firm to the belief that residents need to get out of their familiar living environment to sustain real change and in its simplest sense, Webster Place provides a dignified place and setting for one alcoholic in recovery to help another alcoholic find recovery. That is our hope and our commitment

Growing into recovery, one person at a time, one day at a time. Webster Place Recovery Center subscribes to the belief that individuals can acquire and sustain recovery through an approach that respects personal dignity.

Journaling for Recovery

At Webster Place Recovery Center, the use of personal journaling is an important part of the recovery journey. We believe that the purposeful and intentional use of reflective writing provides for mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellness. In addition, we believe that journaling is an effective means of providing focus and clarity to issues, concerns, conflicts and confusions that the cunning, baffling and powerful addiction distorts. Our use of journal therapy goes beyond the keeping of a traditional diary to offering a genuine, unique therapeutic method that offers cost-effective, holistic self-management and self-expression.

Sharing

The value of 12-Step programs lie in the special and intimate relationship one gets when sharing his/her story with another person experiencing recovery. While talking about what is bothering you can be practiced with a friend or loved one, a family member, or a therapist, the ability to identify and share on a feeling level with someone who is experiencing the same pain and suffering is one of the joys of recovery.

Talking about your problems can help you to spot things that are causing problems in your life. A person with a different perspective on your situation can help you see options that you might miss or overlook, which could help fix the problems you are having, and how to deal with the things you can't fix. Through discussion, you can find ways to handle your problems so that the same issues won’t continually disrupt your life.

Remember that sharing doesn't have to be difficult. The simple act of discussing your feelings allows you to gain new insight and perspective. Sharing can also help to enrich your life by bringing the people that you love closer to you.