WHERE WOMEN CAN HEAL AND RECOVER
"define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live."
-anne sweeney
TRUE NORTH RECOVERY IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY WOMEN IN RECOVERY TO PROVIDE SOBER HOUSING SERVICES TO WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY WHO ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING RESOURCES TO BUILD A LONG TERM RECOVERY PROGRAM.
THROUGHOUT 2020 WE MAINTAINED A FULL HOUSE OF THRIVING WOMEN, CELEBRATED 12 ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES. AND ONLY 4 REUSES OCCURRED. OVER THE PAST 8YEARS, WE HAVE HELPED MORE THAN 220 WOMEN FIND LONG-TERM RECOVERY.
BECAUSE OUR AVERAGE RESIDENT STAY IS 9MO TO 1YR, NEW RESIDENTS BENEFIT FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE WOMEN IN THE HOUSE WHO HAVE ALREADY ACHIEVED LONG-TERM SOBRIETY. AS A RESULT OF THE LONGER THAN AVERAGE STAY, OUR RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN. AND DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THEIR CHANCES AT LONG-TERM RECOVERY.
OUR RESIDENTS FOCUS ON BUILDING A 12 STEP BASED RECOVERY PROGRAM, A DAILY SPIRITUAL PRACTICE, MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION, BALANCE, SELF CARE, RELATIONSHIPS/CODEPENDENCY, SELF- SUFFICIENCY, AND BEING USEFUL TO OTHERS.
True North Recovery has been privileged to walk with over 280 women finding long term recovery in the past 7 years and in 2019 celebrated with 35 of our residents when they achieved 1-year sobriety. True North Recovery Alumni highlight our value of service by returning to support our residents through sponsorship, sharing their stories, participating in meetings, and sober fun activities. Our alumni have graduated from our program to thrive as active members of the recovery community. These women have successfully accomplished various personal achievements throughout their journey at True North Recovery and have left with a spiritual foundation including life changing resources, skills, and support and lifelong relationships with women on the same path.
compass program
Our non-clinical approach supports women with 0-30 days of recovery who are on their journey to achieve long-term recovery. Our program engages our residents in a skills and tool-based curriculum to create balance, productivity, and independence. Through high accountability standards, we provide a safe living environment for women with short-term recovery to succeed. We understand that in some cases women need clinical services like detox to get started or mental health professionals to provide a plan to stabilize mental health issues as they begin the challenging work necessary for long term recovery. We focus on day to day living and partner with clinical resources that focus on women in early sobriety.
Often, women working to maintain long term sobriety have used clinical and therapy interventions and have a strong understanding of the disease of addiction but continue to struggle with relapse. To maintain long term recovery, we have to change how we live, how we think, and how we perceive the world, things we cannot find in a clinical setting. That is where our Compass program focuses.
We provide:
a higher level of accountability and stability through the especially challenging first 30 days of recovery.
Tools and one one one support to help residents as they develop a structure that balances recovery with other responsibilities,
Realistic understanding of the importance real self care, and the part it plays in long term recovery.
a recovery program that includes all of the crucial elements needed to succeed such as attending regular meetings, working with a sponsor, and service work.
lastly, a spiritual program because WE CANNOT DO THIS ALONE.
Aurora House opened in December of 2015. In addition to requiring residents to work a 12th step program, we watched the situations that would derail a woman’s recovery and started building accountability and activities to help women stay sober through the most difficult times. Today, in addition to traditional sober house accountability, we work with residents on:
Building a daily spiritual program
Self care and meditation
Building a community of sober women
Balance- i.e. balancing recovery with life, relationships, building a routine to help them thrive, time management.
I attended treatment for alcoholism in April of 2013. Following treatment, I followed the recommendations of my treatment team and moved into one of the Come Straight Home sober houses. The ability to enter sober living, instead of returning home after a 30 day inpatient stay, along with the tools and support I received as a resident, enabled me to build a long term recovery program.
