Eight weeks.
Eight Mondays.

The arc of the program, laid out plainly. Every week stands on its own and builds on the last. Sessions are conversation, not lecture. Reading is optional and short.

Length8 weeks · 2 hrs each FormatMonday evenings · 7 — 9 p.m. ET Cohort8 seats — small by design WhereLive on Zoom · cameras encouraged

01 The syllabus

The eight weeks, in order.

Sessions move at the pace of the room. The arc holds.

Wk 01

Day one — why you camep. 01

What you're putting down, and why now. The first night is for showing up; we ask very little of you and offer the room.

Wk 02

The vocabularyp. 02

HALT. FEAR. Quality over quantity. Blue skies and green lights. The words you'll use to describe your own weather from now on.

Wk 03

The daytimerp. 03

Recovery is a logistics problem before it's a spiritual one. We build the to-do list that holds you up on the days you can't hold yourself up.

Wk 04

Boundaries — phone calls and roomsp. 04

The calls you don't make. The rooms you don't walk into. Said out loud, so they become real, so they become possible.

Wk 05

The middlep. 05

Where most people quit. Why we don't. What to do when the novelty wears off and the work becomes the work.

Wk 06

The peoplep. 06

Who's in your life now. Who you'll need to add. Who you'll need to let go of, for a while or for good. Honest accounting.

Wk 07

The storyp. 07

How you tell what happened, to yourself first. The version you'll carry into the rest of your life. We practice it out loud.

Wk 08

Day fifty-six — what you take with youp. 08

What stays in this room. What you take with you. We close the cohort the way we opened it: small, plainly, on time.

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02 The vocabulary

The words we use to stay.

A small private language, earned the hard way. Two of them, set in type, so you know what to expect on week two.

HALT

When to stop and ask why.

Hungry

Angry

Lonely

Tired

"I was all the above. So I went home."— Debra, in her own words

FEAR

And what to do with it.

Fuck

Everything

And

Recover

"This was not my goal by any chance. It caught up with me anyway."— Debra, in her own words

03 Who it's for

Two honest lists.

It's better to know now. We'd rather you find the right room than the closest one — and we'd rather say so plainly.

This is for you if —

Yes

You're past day one and the novelty is wearing off.
You've tried groups that didn't fit, and you're not sure why.
You want practical language, not slogans.
You can show up on a Monday night for eight weeks.
You're willing to be honest in a small room of people you'll know by name.
You're sober, or sincerely on the way.

This is not for you if —

You're in active acute crisis — please call a clinician first.
You're looking for a 12-step alternative that operates the same way, only renamed.
You're not ready to participate. Passive observation isn't how the room works.
You need a substitute for medical detox or supervised withdrawal.
You're looking for free. The work is real, and so is the tuition.

Eight weeks.Eight Mondays.