"What's Next After Sober Living?"

You've done everything right. You followed the rules, attended the meetings, worked the steps, stayed clean for months. The women's recovery house in Richardson that saved your life now feels like home. You've built routines, made friends, found your footing. And now it's time to leave.

The terror is real. Inside these walls, sobriety felt manageable.

You can stop drinking or using drugs and still be utterly miserable. You can white-knuckle through thirty days clean and feel like you're crawling out of your skin. You can follow every rule in a recovery house and still wake up at 3 AM with your heart racing and your mind screaming.

That's because for most women, addiction is a symptom, not the root problem.

Underneath the substance abuse lies untreated depression, unprocessed trauma, debilitating anxiety, or other mental health conditions that drove you to self-medicate in the first place. If you only address the addiction without healing the wounds that caused it, you're building a house on quicksand.