Walk into any coed addiction treatment facility and you'll witness a familiar dynamic: women guarding their stories, monitoring their appearance, navigating romantic tensions, and spending emotional energy on everything except their own healing. It's exhausting, distracting, and for many women, it sabotages recovery before it even begins.

Gender-specific recovery isn't about man-hating or creating artificial separation. It's about recognizing that women's addiction experiences, trauma histories, and healing needs differ fundamentally from men's—and that addressing these differences directly produces better outcomes.