Addiction Peer Recovery Support –
12-Step Group Alternatives

A WISE Retreat Provides Addiction Recovery Options

12 Step Groups – AA and NA     Alternative Addiction Recovery Support Groups

A Wise Retreat Provides Options to our Clients for Ongoing Peer Recovery Support.
We provide more for our clients than best practices evidence-based treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) and co-occurring disorders (dual diagnosis).
We offer multiple peer support group options to our clients … Options are Empowering!

Addiction Recovery Options are Important

A WISE Retreat provides more than just a safe home-like environment for our clients. And we provide even more than a qualified and empathetic, compassionate and caring staff.

From the bedroom and décor in which you feel most comfortable – to an individualized addiction treatment plan tailored to your unique needs – to recovery nutrition and the food you like to help prepare and eat during the week – we give options and choices to our clients.

We believe it is critical to provide our clients choices for the ongoing self-help meetings they would like to attend.

Self Help Support Group Meetings and Addiction Recovery

Self-help peer support group meetings are an important aspect of addiction recovery.

Attending self-help meetings ongoing is a huge investment of time and effort. And more – long-term success in overcoming addictions may well depend on an individual’s willingness to attend self-help meetings after leaving our residential rehab treatment.

But – which self-help meetings are the right choice for you?

A WISE Retreat understands that no two people are alike. And we know that what may work for some individuals – may not work for others. That is why we offer multiple addiction recovery peer support group options to our clients. Options are Empowering!

Recovery Self-help Peer Support Groups

Taking charge of your life after years of being enslaved to addiction begins with making the right choices. Wise choices are based on facts, knowledge and discernment.

At A Wise Retreat, we educate our clients on the various peer support meetings available.

12 Step Groups – AA and NA

 AA has been around since the early 1930’s and has helped hundreds of thousands of people in recovery. AA and NA are based on their 12 step traditions and are faith based. But these groups are not for everyone.

Twelve-step AA and NA programs generally emphasize the recovering individual’s powerlessness over alcohol, other substances, or behaviors. And promote the need to rely on a higher power for assistance in overcoming addiction.

Although A WISE Retreat is not based on a 12-step program, we encourage our clients to experience AA and NA meetings. Many individuals find the 12-Step Approach in AA and NA to be very helpful.

 A WISE Retreat clients go to three AA meetings a week. But we don’t stop there!

Alternative Addiction Recovery Support Groups

Alternatives to 12 Step addiction recovery reject a view of ‘helplessness’ regarding addiction.

Instead, alternative peer support addiction recovery groups see individuals as having adequate power within themselves to overcome addictions.

This view is evident in the language of alternative addiction self-help organizations. Phrases such as “empowering our sober selves,” “saving our selves,” and “self-management and recovery” are emphasized.

LifeRing Recovery and SMART Recovery

Clients at A WISE Retreat also attend one LifeRing Recovery meeting a week – as well as one SMART Recovery meeting a week.

LifeRing Secular Recovery is an organization of people who share practical experiences and sobriety support. LifeRing believes you DO have the power to overcome your addiction. LifeRing is a non-12 step program. It is is not faith based.
For more information, go to https://www.lifering.org/about

SMART Recovery (Self Management And Recovery Training) helps individuals gain independence from addiction. It is based on scientific knowledge and evolves as scientific knowledge evolves.

SMART Recovery believes that everyone finds their own path to recovery and promotes self-empowerment at meetings. SMART Recovery sponsors are available at face-to-face meetings around the world; and in daily online meetings.
For more information, go to https://www.smartrecovery.org/

A Wise Retreat – We Inspire, Support and Empower our clients with options!

Our local Northern California service area includes San Francisco, Bay Area, East Bay, Concord, Benicia, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Silicon Valley, Menlo Park and San Jose.

 If you are dealing with a drug abuse or an alcohol use disorder – welcome to A Wise Retreat evidence-based whole person addiction treatment.

We use an evidence-based integrated treatment approach to healing from addiction.

Our Power Recovery Treatment Program combines traditional western medicine and mindfulness. In our addiction recovery Wellness Program, we focus on health, nutrition, exercise and life balance.

• Our resident to staff ratio is ideal for recovery.
• Our team of professional addiction specialists and staff members treat the whole person.
• We utilize the best evidence-based methodologies available.
• Our staff are some of the most compassionate, highly skilled recovery professionals located on the West Coast.