What it’s like. I’m not gonna lie (I work an honest program or something), sober living was not easy to accept at first. I came to Haven House after a 30-day stay at Cirque Lodge in Utah. I spent the first week or so basically stirring in self-pity. Who wouldn’t right? I grew up in [...]

I have been clean now for almost 7 months. This is the longest I have ever managed without drugs or alcohol since I started using. I have attempted to get clean several times now with little success. I used to fear that life wasn’t possible without using. Sometimes that old fear still stirs. The first [...]

I have now been at Haven House for about a month. Everything so far has been going better that I had expected. The staff here has been very helpful and always supportive. The other residents have also been very accepting and easy to get along with. I came here after a 30 day in patient [...]

Another check in? Okay, I can do this. Well, this blog is going to be much more positive than the last. My original plan was to stay at Haven House for three months after my one month stay at rehab. My three months, which ends in a week, would bring me to a total of [...]

After living in this house for 21 months, my life seems to be coming together. Although there have been numerous setbacks (too many to count) in my recovery, those setbacks have only made me become stronger. I am going back to school with a more solid educational foundation. I now have a solid sponsor whose [...]

I often times don’t want anything to do with sobriety, or with Haven House. I think of where I came from and the events that led up to this and I think of the precise moment I gave up, just for a second, and became entangled in this. They say in meetings ‘a belly full [...]

Trying to look at myself from the outside in is difficult for me. Check in? Well, if checking in will get me one step closer to checking out, than I’m in. Today I have 90 days of continuous sobriety. These last three months have been no picnic. In fact, if these last three months were [...]