In The News
Added Services, New Location!
Our agency is now SAPTA-certified for the following Adult Services: Intensive Outpatient Outpatient Transitional Living (Sober Living with outpatient treatment programming) Early Intervention Adolescent Services: Outpatient Early Intervention Living Free Health & Fitness is also SAPTA-certified as Co-Occurring Disorders Services capable and certified in Prevention. Our organization...
Men’s Sober Living Home is OPEN!
We prepare you to stay stopped – FOR LIFE. Our goal: “When you leave us, the only thing that will change is your address!” $150 one-time intake/assessment Only $150 per week More robust than treatment. Clinical: education groups and individual counseling. Fitness: sports, gym membership, training. Nutrition: healthy eating instruction and cooking practicums. Life skills: budgeting,...
Loving Pahrump!
What a great town! In four short months, we have met so many nice people, so many who want to help others and so many supportive of our mission. As many of you know, we're opening sober living soon - and will be starting with Pahrump's first women's sober living house. Click the SOBER LIVING tab above for more information. We also attended our first Chamber of Commerce and City event: The 2018...
Fitness in Recovery
Exercise is one of the best things recovering addicts can do to avoid relapse and build a healthy lifestyle, asserts author, licensed clinician, master addiction counselor and certified fitness trainer Rochelle “Shelley” Poerio. “It’s not widely known, but recovering addicts reap greater benefits from exercise programs than the average person,” Poerio asserts. “They experience even more...
My Recovery Weight Loss Story
This personal experience was perhaps the biggest motivator behind writing my book, "Rebalancing the Addictive Mind: Beating Addiction with Exercise and Nutrition". When I exited hospital detox September 10, 2001, I weighed 20 pounds over my healthy weight. Not age-25 weight. Not collegiate-athlete weight. Healthy, average, 40-year old woman weight. From there, over the next four months, I gained...
Update – Fall 2017 Fundraiser
Good News! Day 31 of our fundraiser to support the Las Vegas Rescue Mission with quality education and fitness programming....and A gentleman who wishes to remain anonymous clicked our DONATE PAGE and made a $2,500 gift to help us not only meet our Rescue Mission programming goal, but to get us started in our soon-to-be-announced, much-needed programming in Pahrump, Nevada. BEFORE AND AFTER...