Open Door Retreat

Women’s Addiction Recovery Centers like The Open Door realize that women in recovery have unique needs when it comes to recovery. During the course of our 28-day addiction recovery program, women learn drug and alcohol recovery strategies designed to help the body, mind, and spirit make a successful transition into sobriety.

Women’s Addiction Recovery Programs teach women how to replace the damaging ways that they have been thinking and living with positive and fruitful ways to change their life forever. Women face different challenges than men do and gender specific recovery programs have devised unique ways to overcome substance abuse.

Fostering Self Discovery

The individual programs that we offer give women an opportunity to really get to know their genuine self. Here, she can go deep into their past and discover exactly when and where it was that things went wrong. It is self discovery that is at the very beginning of her journey. Group meetings with other women and at 12 Step Meetings also an essential component in recovery. Here women are able to find comfort and support while listening to other women who have faced similar troubles.

Addiction Recovery Programs

There are many other programs that assist in the recovery process for women such as enjoying cultural activities, 12 step meetings, equine therapy, art therapy and creative expression, stress relief and anxiety reduction, and self discovery exercises. These are all in part of the healing process that changes your mindset and your future forever.

Women will be educated and embrace such issues as relapse prevention, family counseling, individual and group sessions, long term sobriety maintenance, how to utilize all community services and referrals. It is very important during this time to involve the families of these women and to educate them on how to live and understand this new person or how to remember the old person that they lost during the course of her addiction. This is also a time when families need to show strong support of their loved one and put the life that they are leaving at rest.