Building a life you don't feel the need to escape from through holistic wellness, mindfulness, and community connection.
Whether you're joining us as a board member, volunteer, or supporter, this document outlines who we are, what we believe, and the principles that guide everything we do.
Rest and Recovery Foundation is dedicated to bringing addiction recovery support and mental health resources to music festivals, local events, recovery houses, and treatment centers. To build a solid foundation for lasting recovery, we utilize holistic wellness practices that strengthen the mind, body, and spirit. Our goal is to help people create a life they don't feel the need to escape from.
When you bring R&R to your event or community, we provide a self-contained space that teaches people how to reach blissed-out states of consciousness without substance use. Through our Mindfulness Based Recovery Meetings (MBR), we re-cover and rediscover ourselves by diving into the deeper reasoning behind addictive behavior. We offer compassionate support to help break old habits and re-wire our brains for greatness.
Through community, we create a life we don't feel the need to escape from. Through practice, we build a life worth living. Through music, we live a life worth saving.
We embrace diverse recovery paths and individual experiences without judgment. Recovery looks different for everyone, and all paths are valid and worthy of support.
We provide free, comprehensive mental health and wellness resources to all individuals, meeting people where they are on their journey - whether that's at a music festival, treatment center, recovery house, or community event.
We support individuals in discovering and implementing personalized recovery strategies. We believe in people's capacity to heal, grow, and create lives they love.
We recognize the interconnected nature of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. True recovery addresses the whole person, not just the behavior.
Rest and Recovery Foundation serves a diverse community, including:
We recognize that addiction touches everyone - not just those who struggle with it directly. We believe in supporting the entire ecosystem of recovery, including those who love and care for people on their healing journeys.
Recovery allies play a crucial role in creating supportive environments for lasting change. We recognize that:
Loving someone with addiction affects your own mental health and wellbeing
Supporting recovery means learning healthy boundaries and communication
Allies need their own support, resources, and community
Family and friends are partners in the recovery process, not bystanders
Healing happens in relationship and community
There is no "one right way" to recover. We support and celebrate diverse approaches to healing, including 12-step programs, alternative recovery pathways, therapy, medication-assisted treatment, spiritual practices, and any combination that works for the individual. Your recovery is yours to define.
Traditional approaches often focus on what you can't do. We flip the script. Recovery isn't just about stopping destructive behaviors - it's about building a life so fulfilling, so connected, so aligned with your values that you don't want to escape from it. We help you create something worth showing up for.
True change requires getting curious about the "why" behind our behaviors. We support deep self-inquiry, compassionate self-examination, and radical honesty about our patterns, triggers, and needs. Recovery is an inside job, and we're here to support that inner work.
Being in integrity with our commitments - to ourselves and others - is foundational to recovery. We practice showing up for our agreements, communicating honestly when we can't, and building trust through consistent action. Personal accountability strengthens both individual recovery and community bonds.
Recovery looks different for everyone, especially when addressing process addictions and behavioral patterns where complete abstinence isn't possible or appropriate. We honor each person's unique path, timeline, and definition of recovery.
Peer support and community are at the heart of lasting recovery. Feeling connected, accepted, and understood are essential to healing. We create safe, welcoming spaces where people can be authentic, vulnerable, and supported. Recovery doesn't happen in isolation - it happens in relationship.
Mindfulness Based Recovery (MBR) is our signature approach to healing and transformation. Through MBR meetings and practices, we:
We believe in treating the whole person through comprehensive wellness practices:
We support all therapeutic modalities, including:
We recognize that psychedelic therapies and plant medicines (including but not limited to psilocybin, ayahuasca, cannabis, and other entheogens) can be powerful tools for healing, spiritual growth, and therapeutic transformation when used with clear intention, proper set and setting, and within appropriate containers.
Intentional, mindful use of plant medicines for therapeutic or spiritual purposes is fundamentally different from substance misuse or addiction
These tools hold profound healing potential for trauma, depression, addiction, and personal growth
Proper guidance, integration support, and responsible use are essential
These substances can also be misused, and we acknowledge the potential for harm when used without intention or appropriate context
Individual discernment and personal responsibility are paramount
We do not promote recreational drug use or substance misuse. We support informed, intentional engagement with these modalities as part of a comprehensive healing journey.
While Rest and Recovery Foundation is not a harm reduction organization and we are not equipped to provide direct harm reduction services, we deeply respect harm reduction as a valid approach to supporting people on their journeys. We partner with organizations that specialize in harm reduction and are happy to provide referrals and resources for individuals who seek that type of support.
These harm reduction resources and partner organizations are included in our community resource database.
We do not impose a single definition of recovery or success. We celebrate progress in all its forms - whether that's one day sober, years of abstinence, harm reduction strategies, medication-assisted treatment, or any other step toward wellness and self-care.
At the heart of everything we do is this truth: Recovery isn't about deprivation - it's about abundance.
Rest and Recovery Foundation