Understanding the Benefits of Therapy
Everyone who has sought mental health treatment has a unique story. In general, most people hope to gain a healthier mindset and learn new skills. Oft...
05/29/2023
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The Framework Recovery Difference
Framework Recovery not only provides men suffering from Substance Use Disorder (SUD) an individualized framework needed to become sober, but empowers them to stop living a life controlled by fear.
Outpatient Addiction Treatment
Like addiction, recovery is not an overnight process. And, it can be challenging without the proper help. At Framework Recovery, our goal is to provide the clearest path to successful and sustainable sobriety for you or a loved one. We believe recovery is more successful when outpatient treatment programs such as partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient program (IOP), monitoring, counseling and sober living homes (SLH) coexist together.
Sober Living Home
Housing provides a critical layer of accountability, encourages our guests to build a community and through that, understanding of what they are going through.
The staff really goes above and beyond to make this program meaningful. Chris and Troy are awesome at handling the business for the house and the office. They are also cool dudes. Through these guys, I've met more new people than I can count. I've never had this many people willing to pick up the phone for me in my life. The guys are always willing to listen.
This trio performed miracles for my son. Hes now sober, healthy and successful in life. Frameworks continues to be a huge support for him. They saved his life and mine too. Thank you, Troy, Chris and Megan! Were forever grateful.
Chris and Troy were some of the first people I met when being introduced to recovery and starting my journey of sobriety, without the help of either one of them I can confidently say I wouldn't be where I am at now and have nothing but gratitude for them and Framework, thank you guys!
Chris Curran has had a tremendous impact on my sobriety. I never imagined that I would ever be able to get to 2 years of sobriety. All of that was possible with Chris’s guidance and expertise. Chris is best described as someone who is honest, trustworthy, humble, intelligent, understanding, and especially dedicated. His life’s mission is to help those suffering from substance abuse to achieve sobriety. Thank you Chris for everything you have done for me.
Troy and Chris are two outstanding guys. My experiences with them has been pivotal in setting a foundation for sobriety. They continue to play a massive role in my journey to a brighter future. I can’t thank them enough!
I have been fortunate enough to know Troy and Chris for several years now. I have seen them do amazing work with young men who are trying to recover from substance abuse issues. These gentlemen are very knowledgeable, passionate, and experienced with all aspects of addiction treatment. I would highly recommend considering Framework Recovery as an outpatient program for you or your loved one.
I've had the pleasure of working with Chris and Troy for the last year. These two gentlemen are extremely passionate about helping individuals in recovery, and have vast knowledge and experience in the field.
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How Can Animals Help When Healing from Trauma?
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05/22/2023
How Can I Heal From Family Issues in Recovery?
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05/15/2023
Why Is It Important to Show Myself Grace?
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05/08/2023
How To Build A Framework For Coexisting With Others?
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05/01/2023
Can I Become Addicted to Marijuana?
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04/24/2023
How to Find the Balance Between Masculinity and Surrender in Recovery?
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04/17/2023
Is It Important For Human Connection During Addiction Recovery?
Recovering from addiction can be extremely difficult if done alone, especially as mental health conditions can interfere with treatment. Therefore, su...
04/10/2023
What Are The Challenges of Breaking Free From Methamphetamine Addiction?
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04/03/2023
What Is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and How Can It Help My Recovery?
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03/27/2023
Can Motivational Interviewing Help My Recovery Process?
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03/20/2023
How To Find Healing From a Prescription Pain Medication Addiction?
Many people believe that substance use disorder (SUD) develops from chronic alcohol or illicit drug use. While these substances remain incredibly harm...
03/13/2023
Why Do I Need to Find New Sober Hobbies in Recovery?
During treatment, and especially when transitioning back to life outside of treatment, individuals working to establish their sobriety will need to en...
03/06/2023
What Is EMDR and Can It Be Useful in Healing My Trauma?
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03/01/2023
The Science Behind Counting Your Blessings in Recovery
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02/20/2023
The Power of Mindfulness: Learning to Accept Cravings Instead of Fighting Them
When you are faced with something unpleasant, human nature makes you inclined to fight or run. However, there is a third option for responding to some...
02/13/2023
The Lost Boys of Addiction: Learning to Live on Your Own
Addiction can rob you of so many things, including the opportunities to grow and learn how to take care of yourself. Not unlike Peter Pan’s Lost Boy...
02/06/2023
Learn How To Use CBT to Discover Why “I Can” Is More Powerful Than “I Can’t”
The negative thoughts that start with “I can’t” force you into giving your power away. However, when you take your power back and change the nar...
02/01/2023
Learn How to Manage Fear-Fueled Anger
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01/25/2023
Emotions and Stigma: It’s Okay for Men to Talk About Them
If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts, please call the National Crisis and Suicide Hotline at 988. Stigma dictates that men should never expr...
01/23/2023
Doing Your Part: What It Means to Be Part of a Community
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01/16/2023
Learn How To Create A Framework for Healing Through Nutrition
Healing from substance abuse involves many facets. One of those facets is addressing your eating habits. You should create a framework for your healin...
01/09/2023
The Learning Process of Addiction Recovery
Life lessons are learned best through trial and error. Addiction recovery is a process, not an instant path to perfection. Each day offers a new begin...
01/02/2023
A Framework for Effective Communication
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12/28/2022
Friendship, Empathy, and Being Present for Others
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12/19/2022
A Framework for Staying Sober Through the Holidays in Early Recovery
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12/12/2022
How To Heal From Addiction: Real Men Do Yoga
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12/05/2022
What Does It Looks Like for Men to Ask for Support in Recovery?
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11/28/2022
Learning to Take Recovery One Step at a Time
Once you have completed the initial hard work of recovery, being sober can be exhilarating. When leaving recovery, you may be tempted to jump back int...
11/21/2022
How To Navigate The Holidays Without Family During Early Recovery
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11/14/2022
Top 3 Life Skills You Cannot Live Without
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11/07/2022
Helping Men Heal From Trauma
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10/31/2022
How To Reclaim Your Life From Fear-Based Living?
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10/24/2022
What Does Holistic Treatment Methods for Men Look Like?
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10/19/2022
How To Create A Framework for Relapse Prevention?
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10/10/2022
Why Do I Need Anger Management in Recovery?
When you are in early recovery, you are still learning to regulate your emotions. Anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences throughout thei...
10/03/2022
How To Navigate Family Relationships After Treatment
After initial treatment for addiction, there is still plenty of healing that needs to happen. Family relationships can be particularly difficult to na...
09/26/2022
6 Relapse Prevention Techniques That Work
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09/21/2022
The Power of Animal Therapy
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09/12/2022
What Does Depression Look Like for Men?
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09/05/2022
Learn How to Thrive With a Co-occurring Disorder
Some people see being diagnosed with a mental health diagnosis on top of having a substance use disorder (SUD) as a disability, while others see it as...
08/31/2022
How to Return to Work After Treatment for Addiction
Returning to work after any time off is difficult, but returning to work after treatment for addiction is an entirely different challenge. Your recove...
08/22/2022
Exploring the World of Sobriety
The word sobriety has a stigma of being dull or boring. Perhaps it conjures up images of sitting around alone or limiting your social life to seeing m...
08/15/2022
Helpful Tips To Slay The Two-Headed Beast of Guilt and Shame
If the shame does not get you, the guilt will. Guilt and shame are like a two-headed beast of negative thought processes that seem to be ever-threaten...
08/10/2022
Is There Life After Residential Treatment?
There is often so much focus on the first 30 days of treatment for addiction that not much thought is put into what happens afterward. You go from act...
08/01/2022
Why Does Childhood Trauma Affect Me Now?
When you hear the words “childhood memories,” most people think of happy, carefree days spent laughing and playing. For too many people, however, ...
07/27/2022
A Guide To Overcome the Fear of Success in Recovery
Fear of failure can keep you from achieving your goals, but fear of success can actually threaten your long-term recovery. Why are some people afraid ...
07/18/2022
How To Keep Your Head in the Game?
In sports, sometimes scoring a point or two or winning a single game is enough to establish your spot on the team. In recovery, though, you need to ea...
07/11/2022
How Do I Forgive Myself After Addiction?
The behaviors associated with addiction often lead to guilt, shame, and regret. You may even have shame surrounding your addiction itself. Simply beco...
07/06/2022
What Are The Impacts of Substance Use on Family?
When one person uses substances, the focus is typically on them and getting them help. How often does anyone look around that person to assess the nee...
06/29/2022
Trauma That Exceeds Generations
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06/20/2022
A Framework for Choosing a Treatment Program
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06/15/2022
The Cyclical Cycle of Trauma and Abuse
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06/06/2022
Useful Guide To Having a Very Sober Summer
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05/30/2022
A History on Alcohol Abuse and Why It’s Hard to Stop
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05/25/2022
Are You Feeling Alone In Your Recovery?
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05/16/2022
How Do You Incorporate Healthy Foods Into Your Recovery?
“You are what you eat” isn’t just an annoying idiom your parents would use to get you to stop eating sweets when you were younger. T...
05/11/2022
How To Make Sobriety Sustainable?
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05/01/2022
Being Ready for Pet Ownership in Recovery
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04/25/2022
Recovery Without Judgment
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04/20/2022
What Are The Benefits of 12 Steps?
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04/11/2022
What Are The Early Signs of Toxicity in a Relationship?
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04/04/2022
Sober Living With Accountability
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03/28/2022
Are You Deciding to Stay Single in Early Recovery?
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03/23/2022
How To Be A Good Sober Living Housemate?
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03/16/2022
Is Toxic Masculinity Too Toxic For Recovery?
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03/09/2022
The Benefits of Emotional Vulnerability
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03/04/2022
How To Create New Hobbies
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02/25/2022
The Consequences of Disrespecting Privacy and Boundaries
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02/16/2022
Are You Living a Life Controlled By Fear?
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02/09/2022
What Are The Perks of Alumni Participation?
Your recovery is a continuous journey that you will be on for the rest of your life. As an alumnus of a treatment facility, staying connected and gett...
02/02/2022
How To Be Responsible In Recovery
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01/26/2022
A Framework for Entering the Real World
While spending time in a recovery community may foster a supportive network, eventually, you will have to venture out into the real world and put what...
01/19/2022
How To Find Comfort in a Furry Friend
Whether cats, dogs, bunnies, or hamsters, our furry friends can be excellent cuddlers, superb listeners, and energetic playmates. While any animal can...
01/14/2022
How To Address Trauma Within Your Family
Substance use disorder (SUD) often stems from a traumatic event or — events — that can affect an entire family. This may be especially true if you...
01/05/2022
Learn How To Process Trauma and Use PTSD Management
Most likely, at some point in everyone’s life, they experienced some sort of trauma — however, not everyone who experiences trauma experiences the...
12/31/2021
Giving Thanks and Living in Gratitude
The holidays are a time for acts of selflessness and being thankful for the people, things, and ideas in your life. However, living a life of gratitud...
12/22/2021
Holiday Stress, Depression, and Overeating
Food can have addictive qualities — especially delicious snack foods high in fat, sugar, and carbs that give your body little to no nutrition. It ma...
12/15/2021
A Framework for Discussing Recovery With Your Family
You were not the only person your addiction affected. Your family, friends, and loved ones have all been impacted by negative behaviors that your subs...
12/08/2021
The Process of Healing and Recovery
Throughout your recovery journey, you may have to reopen old wounds to process and understand them. Talking about your traumas and their effects on yo...
12/03/2021
Understanding the Basics of Self-Care
Self-care is an important factor in overall wellness. It is especially important when it comes to someone’s recovery. It is beneficial to commun...
11/24/2021
Contacting Mental Health Professionals During Off Hours
These days, many people are used to immediate gratification. We live in a society where we can fulfill our needs or satisfy our curiosity instantly an...
11/19/2021
Discover The Importance of Community Support During Recovery
Coping with a substance abuse disorder (SUD) can often feel isolating. Some people experience feelings of shame or guilt that keep them distanced from...
11/10/2021
A Framework for Facing Confrontation
For those in active addiction, dealing with conflict is likely an impossible task and possibly one of the underlying causes of their substance use dis...
11/05/2021
What Are The Different Types of Trauma?
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10/28/2021
The Consequences of Substance Use and Eating Disorders
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10/22/2021
A Framework for Managing Mental Health Symptoms
Substance use disorders are often accompanied by other mental health disorders. Even if you have not been diagnosed with other mental health disorders...
10/13/2021
Can Alcohol Make Your Anxiety or Depression Worse?
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is often associated with anxiety and depressive disorders. The consumption of alcohol can both exasperate mental health dis...
10/08/2021
Creating and Understanding Boundaries
During your recovery journey, you will learn to rely on a support system consisting of close friends, family members, and peers. Even though it is cru...
09/29/2021
Creating a Framework for Holding an Intervention
If you have a loved one who suffers from substance use disorder, you may feel like a powerless voice against the person’s addiction. How do you get ...
09/24/2021
How Do I Know If I Need Addiction Treatment?
Admitting that you may have a problem with drugs or alcohol can be challenging. With many substances like alcohol and marijuana normalized, it can be ...
09/03/2021
How Do Support Groups Help Me?
Community is a significant aspect of the recovery process. Sobriety is not something that we should do on our own–it often takes a group effort....
08/31/2021
Can Dogs Play a Role in Recovery?
Dogs are often considered to be “man’s best friend.” These animals are known for their loyalty and love towards humans, but dogs can offer more ...
08/25/2021
Is There A Link Between Trauma and Addiction?
Traumatic events shape the people we become. Whether it’s a childhood experience or something you faced as an adult, these situations can change how...
08/18/2021
Creating the Framework for Your Recovery
Deciding to seek help for your addiction is a significant step. However, finding treatment programs that work for you can be challenging. As you learn...
08/13/2021
Should I Be Taking Prescription Opioids?
What are the long term consequences of prescription Opioids? There is a class of drug substances known as opioids or opiates. Included in this class...
07/26/2021
Is Covid 19 Pandemic Causing My Addiction
Prescription drug abuse during Covid 19 pandemic is on the rise and becoming a major public health problem. According to national surveys, approxima...
07/12/2021
Clinical Treatment of Benzodiazepine Addiction
Benzodiazepine addiction treatment can be difficult and many addicts are reluctant to consider it, in spite of short and long term side effects of the...
06/21/2021
Why Some People Get Addicted To Benzodiazepines?
It is easy to understand that Benzodiazepine addiction is more common in people with some types of anxiety disorders, mood disorders or sleep disorder...
06/07/2021
Deadly Results From Mixing Benzos
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05/17/2021
Am I Addicted To Benzodiazepines?
It is fairly easy to get addicted to a drug that makes you feel so much better very fast when you are going through periods of anxiety or having a pan...
05/03/2021
What Are The Side Effects of Prolonged Use of Benzos?
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04/19/2021
What Are Benzodiazepines or Benzos?
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04/05/2021
Treating Alcoholism With Therapy
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03/22/2021
Complications of Alcoholism And Abuse
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03/08/2021
Binge Drinking and Your Health
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02/22/2021
Are You An Alcoholic?
Most alcoholics are in denial and refuse to acknowledge that their social drinking turned into something much worse. If you can honestly answer positi...
02/08/2021
Why Do We Drink?
Humans have been drinking alcohol for the last 10,000 years. Mesopotamians invented beer as soon as they had more grain than they needed for food. Dri...
01/25/2021
Why is Adderall Addicting?
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01/11/2021
Is My Family Causing My Addiction?
Can family members enable me to continue using drugs? A family can be composed of biological parents/children, adoptive parents/children, or possibly ...
12/28/2020
Prevention of Substance Abuse Is Key During The Holidays
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12/14/2020
What Types of Addiction Therapies Are There?
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11/30/2020
How Does My Addiction Counselor Help Me Through Treatment?
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11/16/2020
Is Residential Addiction Treatment Right For You?
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10/26/2020
Clinical and Non Clinical Addiction Treatment
Clinical Recovery I’m not a clinician and don’t pretend to be. I’m speaking from my own experience as someone who has gone through and understan...
10/12/2020
Recovery and Treatment in Huntington Beach, CA
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09/28/2020
Managing Feelings Without Using Substances
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05/14/2020
The Benefits of Telehealth
In a time of crisis, we want to reach out to those that are close to us to ensure their safety. For those that are struggling with alcohol and drug ad...
05/13/2020
How Social Distancing Affects Your Recovery
Social distancing has become the newest phrase used worldwide these days. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the United States (and the rest of the ...
05/12/2020
How to Manage Your Time During COVID-19
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05/12/2020
