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Rest and Recovery Foundation
Building a life you don't feel the need to escape from through holistic wellness, mindfulness, and community connection.
Who We Are
Welcome to Rest and Recovery Foundation
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.
Our Mission
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.
What Guides Us
Our Core Values
Inclusivity
We embrace diverse recovery paths and individual experiences without judgment. Recovery looks different for everyone, and all paths are valid and worthy of support.
Accessibility
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.
Empowerment
We support individuals in discovering and implementing personalized recovery strategies. We believe in people's capacity to heal, grow, and create lives they love.
Holistic Wellness
We recognize the interconnected nature of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. True recovery addresses the whole person, not just the behavior.
Our Community
Who We Serve
Rest and Recovery Foundation serves a diverse community, including:
  • Individuals in recovery from substance use disorders
  • People struggling with behavioral patterns and process addictions (including but not limited to codependency, anger, disordered eating, gambling, technology use, and other compulsive behaviors)
  • Recovery allies - family members, friends, partners, and loved ones who support those in recovery and recognize the impact of addiction on their own lives
  • Anyone seeking mental health support, personal growth, and holistic wellness
  • Communities affected by addiction and mental health challenges
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.
Supporting Recovery Allies
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
Our Philosophy
Our Recovery Philosophy
We Believe in Multiple Pathways
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.
Core Principles That Guide Our Work
We Focus on Building, Not Just Stopping
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.
We Practice Radical Self-Honesty and Accountability
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.
We Value Integrity and Agreements
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.
We Recognize That Each Journey is Unique
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.
We Center Community and Connection
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.
Our Signature Approach
Mindfulness Based Recovery (MBR)
Mindfulness Based Recovery (MBR) is our signature approach to healing and transformation. Through MBR meetings and practices, we:
  • Explore the deeper "why" behind addictive behaviors
  • Cultivate present-moment awareness and conscious choice
  • Practice self-compassion and non-judgment
  • Build skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance
  • Re-wire neural pathways through consistent practice
  • Create space for self-discovery and personal truth

MBR recognizes that true recovery requires addressing the root causes of addictive behavior, not just the symptoms. We help people re-cover who they truly are beneath the patterns and defenses.
Holistic Wellness: Mind, Body, Spirit
We believe in treating the whole person through comprehensive wellness practices:
Physical Wellness
  • Nutrition awareness and its impact on mental health
  • Movement, exercise, and body awareness
  • Sleep hygiene and physical self-care
  • Understanding the body-mind connection
Mental and Emotional Wellness
We support all therapeutic modalities, including:
  • Talk therapy and counseling
  • Evidence-based practices (CBT, DBT, ACT)
  • Trauma processing therapies (EMDR, somatic experiencing)
  • Trauma-informed care and support
  • Cognitive reframing and belief work
Spiritual and Mindfulness Practices
  • Meditation and mindfulness training
  • Breathwork and nervous system regulation
  • Somatic movement and body-based practices
  • Hypnosis and consciousness exploration
  • Sound healing and vibrational therapy
  • Creative expression (ecstatic dance, flow arts, movement therapies)
Expanded Healing Modalities
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Plant Medicines
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.
We believe:
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.

Integration Support
R&R recognizes that integration—the process of making meaning from and incorporating insights gained through psychedelic experiences—is crucial to the therapeutic benefit of these medicines. We provide resources and connections to integration coaches, therapists, and specialists who support individuals in this work, and we include these practitioners in our community resource database and in our toolkit.
Our Commitment
Meeting People Where They Are
Harm Reduction and Resource Navigation
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 believe in:
  • Meeting people where they are, without judgment
  • Supporting all paths toward wellness and safety
  • Providing comprehensive resource navigation
  • Building bridges between different approaches and philosophies
  • Recognizing that any positive change is worth celebrating
No Judgment, All Paths Welcome
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.
Creating a Life You Don't Want to Escape From
At the heart of everything we do is this truth: Recovery isn't about deprivation - it's about abundance.
We help people discover:
  • Joy and aliveness in sobriety
  • Connection and belonging in community
  • Purpose and meaning through service
  • Tools for navigating life's challenges
  • States of bliss, flow, and transcendence without substances
  • A life so good, so full, so aligned that they don't feel the need to escape from it
This is the foundation we're building together.