Women’s Sober Living Home

People have described residential treatment as a protective “bubble.” You’re lifted out of the environment that was contributing to your drug and alcohol abuse. The rules are clear. The schedule is laid out for you. The day-to-day necessities are taken care of. This allows you to focus on your top priority: recovery.

Our outpatient program allows you to keep one leg in treatment while the rest of you is re-entering the real world. Unfortunately, this re-entry can be rocky. You have more choices and fewer guard rails. You may be exposed to some of the same triggers that fueled your drug addiction in the first place. If you are rooted, you can stay strong and maintain all of the progress you have worked so hard to achieve; a sober living home is one of the best ways to stay rooted.

In our sober living home for women in Burley, Idaho, you can ease back into earning a living or attending school, but you’ll be surrounded by an amazing support system. Back at home, you may find yourself surrounded by people who are actively using drugs. But in our safe and sober living home, you’ll live alongside women who are committed to staying sober, just like you are. They’ll hold you accountable when you backslide. They’ll understand you, cheer you on, and give you the encouragement you need to keep going—even on the toughest days.

The last thing you want in this sometimes-fragile time following residential treatment is to get overwhelmed by life and regress. Our sober living home helps ensure that this won’t happen. It’s the perfect in-between with less rigidity than residential treatment but enough structure to help you re-enter regular life with a sharp new focus. You can continue your outpatient treatment with ease and stay in the safe space of our Burley, Idaho, women’s safe and sober living home until you’re on solid ground.

• Exercise Independence. A lot will be done for you in residential treatment so that you can devote yourself to recovery, but a sober living home allows you more control and independence. You can make and eat meals of your choosing, set your schedule, and work and socialize outside of the home. This independence will feel good, but it won’t be too much too soon. It will allow you to master independent living little by little until you are ready to go full throttle.
• Embrace the Sisterhood. Our sober home for women in Idaho places you in a sisterhood of women. There’s a special power in sisterhood–one we too often miss out on in our fragmented lives. Rather than coming together to share work, recreation, burdens, joys, and wisdom, we tend to live in our own worlds. We are busy and sometimes even run-ragged with no time to gather or even say hi to the friend next door. We are immersed in our phones, which steal time from meaningful connections. Addiction isolates us even further. We back into the shadows and withdraw in shame. At our Idaho women’s sober living home, we revive the strength and synergy of sisterhood. Addiction recovery is a hard journey, best walked in the company of caring companions who are willing to hold you accountable for your actions. You’ll find those companions in our Burley, Idaho sober home for women. You’ll be branching out, possibly re-entering the workforce, but you’ll come home to the steadiness of women who have your back. You’ll be learning, developing your spirituality, working through old traumas, and mending relationships, and it will all feel considerably less lonely with fellow women to cheer you on.
• Get Ongoing Guidance. Life is full of ups and downs. In the past, you likely abused drugs or alcohol to cope with the downs. At our women’s sober home, you’ll have help and support when the downs hit. You can count on our experienced staff, many of whom are in recovery themselves. They can counsel you from a place of “been there, done that.” If you don’t get the job you were hoping for, feel overwhelmed by cravings, or hit a rough patch in a relationship with a family member, they can help you navigate these challenges in a healthy way. That will mean drawing on inner strength and constructive strategies, not falling back on the false comfort of substance abuse. They will be there for you, but they will not enable you. They will hold you accountable for your actions with both compassion and firmness.
• Stay Focused on Faith. Our women’s sober living home is rooted in faith, which we believe is the key to addiction recovery. Our 12-step program encourages anyone in the throes of addiction to surrender to a higher power, but the journey doesn’t end there. Building a relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus requires spending time with them through daily habits like saying prayers and reading scriptures. Not every environment is conducive to building faith, but faith lies at the heart of our sober living home. Spirituality is encouraged and fostered in our faith-focused environment.
• Continue Mental Health Services. Mental health and women’s addiction are heavily intertwined. To ignore mental and emotional well-being is to undermine addiction recovery. In residential treatment, you will work hard to resolve anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other conditions. It would be a tragedy to lose ground. Our sober living home makes it easier to stay consistent with outpatient treatment here in Burley and continue the mental health therapies that are supporting your recovery journey.
• Reduce the Risk of Relapse. As you leave the “cocoon” of residential treatment, relapse risks can soar. You’re back to your old friends and old hang-out spots with potentially easy access to the same old drugs. Our women’s sober home keeps you away from those triggers. It gives your life structure, purpose, responsibility, accountability, and stability. It provides the best environment for you to adopt habits that point you away from substance abuse and toward a brighter future.