Tree House Recovery

I am beyond grateful for Treehouse! They saved my brothers life! My brother was fighting an awful addiction just as so many people are these days. There were times he wanted to give up but Treehouse wouldn’t let that happen. My brother fought through the tough times and has graduated the program with great success. He’s truly able to live and enjoy his life now and that’s all thanks to the wonderful program Treehouse has to offer. I would highly recommend this recovery center to anyone who is serious about fighting their demons and winning their lives back.

Tree House Recovery saved ours son’s life! We went through 9 long years of our son running away, dealing with police and him almost dying twice from an overdose! We tried many IOP programs through the years including an interventionist to get him out of our house. None of that worked. He was living in sober living at Treehouse where he used again and was going to be kicked out. We got a call late at night from Geoff at Treehouse and said he wanted to put Jason into their IOP program that evening. Not once did he ask for money, only that they wanted to save his life. Other IOP programs wouldn’t even take him in until they had a credit card number!
He was taken over to their IOP program house and immediately started the program of early morning working outs on the beach. Within 3 weeks we started to see Jason change. He talked about his yoga classes, boot camp and eating healthy. He met with counselors that he liked and started writing in his literary class. Within 3 months we saw our drug addict son who didn’t care about himself or others transform into this wonderful man that was now healthy, strong and free of drugs!
This program has many wonderful things going for it. These men stick together, support one another and will always be there for one another. They are all best friends!
Thank you to all the staff that turned our son around so he could see the good inside himself! He is now self sufficent and talks about his future!

On Mother’s Day I wanted to share a snippet of our family story. As it will not be our only story but a powerful one that will define who we are and what we learn from it. During this period in our home we –my husband – my son and I became Hurricanes. We would walk upstairs, downstairs in and out of rooms bumbing into each other with such velocity. We became Thunder and Lightning. At the end of the day we fell into bed as puddles of ourselves. That’s what Addiction did to us. Then early in 2013 we got the Call that most parents dread. Your son has been in a terrible car accident – he’s not breathing – get to the Hospital ASAP. We later learned that his transcripts read –John Doe coded DOA .Dead on Arrival.
He was a passenger in a car with another drug addict. Dr. Riley Mayan an experienced Army Urgent Care Doctor was working at the hospital. He performed an Emergency Sternectomy. Which involves a blade to cut his skin open from top to bottom, saws, hammers, & tools to break open his chest bones. They found a 2 cm hole in his heart, they fixed it — repaired his kidney and liver while having to just remove his spleen. During his stay many miracles happened. At one point, the doctor was telling us that your son did survive the surgery but he is brain dead. He said, your son was too long without oxygen. The Urgent Care doctor was pinching him – twisting his skin on his shoulder trying to wake him. He said, when we turn off these meds your son should feel this and respond and he was not. We called a priest to come give him his last rites. During this time his Brother, Sister and Friends were talking to him to coax him back. My son began to move. We ran to the nurse’s station to tell them the good news but they just said. it was just muscle spasms— that happens – . But soon after he began to ask for a shower. My son walked out of the hospital 7 days later at 136 pounds and 6 Ft tall.
Of course, a sane folks would believe that an incident like this would sober him up. His psychiatrist set us all straight. He said you could put a million dollars in front of your son but he would only want his drug of choice. Which is exactly what happened. So another arrest and jail time steered him into wanting to get help.
His friend John called from California and suggested he come to Tree House Recovery– because they saved his life. Our son choose to go this time. and today is 1 year and 4 months sober. His journey had taken him to 9 or 10 rehab centers in Florida, Colorado, Kansas. no he jumped out of the car on the way to that one.
Just guys who get to work on themselves, They get up together –work out at the beach-​Boot Camp, they work out all day long, weather it is in meetings, yoga, weight training, or steering a raft on a collision course with the waves. As they build their bodies, & minds back… something takes hold and delivers them from the Black Hole of Addiction. Today I am grateful for George, Justin, Geoffrey and the entire staff at Tree House Recovery. We are also very grateful to my son who did the work. Today his days are filled with counseling other incoming addicts. In the Jewish Religion they believe if you save a person you have saved an army. These guys have saved an armies. As today is Mothers Day I am grateful to my other children who laid witness to this crazy time in our journey. To our family and friends who stood by us and prayed for us. To those who start and keep meeting running like my brother in– law and sister in-​law, for all the people who keep the 12 steps alive thru AA, NA, and Al Anon. We thank you and are eternally grateful.
In Full Catastrophe Living, Jon Kabat-​Zinn writes, «As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel.»