Why the Emotional Recovery Home is Essential
When most people hear the word recovery, they immediately think of treatment centers for addiction. While those spaces are critical, the truth is that we all experience times when recovery is necessary—not just from substances, but from the weight of life itself.
The Emotional Recovery Home recognizes that women, especially Black women and women of color in under-resourced communities, often carry the invisible burdens of stress, overwhelm, burnout, trauma, loss, and constant transitions. These experiences are just as real, just as debilitating, and just as deserving of healing as physical addiction.
For too long, our culture has told women to “push through,” to sacrifice rest, and to silence their grief or stress in order to hold families, workplaces, and communities together. But the cost is high: unaddressed emotional exhaustion erodes mental health, physical health, relationships, and even the safety and vitality of whole communities.
The Emotional Recovery Home is a sanctuary of compassion, care, rest, and reconnection. It is designed to offer healing pathways where women can:
Step away from constant stressors and enter a space of safety and restoration.
Engage in culturally-affirming practices that resonate with their heritage and lived experience.
Recover not only from trauma, but also from the everyday exhaustion that compounds over time.
Reconnect with the land, with community, and with their own inner wisdom.
In this way, the Emotional Recovery Home expands the definition of recovery. It honors that recovery is not only about surviving crisis, but about learning to restore wholeness, cultivate resilience, and live with joy and purpose.
For women who have given so much of themselves to others, this home is a sacred reminder: your rest matters, your healing matters, and your life is worthy of recovery.
Nestled in the heart of my hometown, Thibodaux, a small country town in deep south Louisiana, the Emotional Recovery Retreat space is a sanctuary for people to heal, restore, and transform. Hugging the banks of Bayou Lafourche, 60 miles southwest of New Orleans, this sacred space draws inspiration from the love and safety I experienced as a child at my grandmother’s home. It was there that I first learned the power of receiving unconditional care, a space where I felt both physically and emotionally nourished, especially during times of overwhelming stress and uncertainty during my childhood.
My grandmother’s home has been a refuge to so many in Thibodaux - a French word meaning bold and brave. It was where the weight of the world seemed lighter, where the warmth of her sweet potato pies filled the air, and where her big-hearted gestures—like turning her living room into a cozy sleeping space for all the grandkids—provided a sense of security and belonging. It was within these walls that I first felt what it meant to truly heal, emotionally and spiritually.
That is the essence of the Emotional Recovery Home. This space is a Wellspring for Women, a space to come to rest and feel restored mentally, emotionally, and physically as we recover from overwhelm, burnout, and trauma of all kinds. This is a sacred space, one where women can feel supported and nourished, just as I did at my grandmother’s side.
A safe space for
Helpers & Caregivers
Maintaining social, mental, and emotional health is vital for everyone, but it can be particularly important for those working in helping professions like social workers, medical providers, teachers, mental health practitioners and jobs of all kinds that serve and support people. Unfortunately we often see that those in the helping professions don’t often get the care and support that they so readily give to others. Their constant exposure to suffering and the emotional demands of their work can lead to burnout, a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion, and compassion fatigue, a specific type of burnout related to prolonged exposure to trauma.
In order to support those in the helping fields in the community and in organizations, the Emotional Recovery Home offers a therapeutic retreat space that supports groups, teams, and tribes come together to co-create a regenerative community of healing. Whether you are visiting the Emotional Recovery Home for a staff retreat, back to school learning and connection session, or spiritual community ritual, we, in support of the lands we’re on, take a restorative approach, offering culturally-affirming, evidence-based, peer-to-peer healing interventions known as Restorative Storytelling Circles.
A Place of Rest, Recovery, & Renewal
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A safe space for Women
The Emotional Recovery Home is a healing sanctuary in Louisiana’s bayou region, dedicated to creating a safe, supportive space for women—especially women of color—to restore emotional wellness and reconnect with their inner wisdom.
For many women, it, unfortunately, doesn’t feel viable to go to a place to rest, reset, and recover because of their many responsibilities. This community of practice helps women to find deep relief and recovery that lasts while allowing them to stay engaged with most of their normal life activities if they need to, such as going to work or attending school. This program & retreat space empowers women to realistically move along their healing journey, while also engaging with life real time.
Grounded in the Emotional Recovery Program, our approach blends personal reflection, community support, and trauma-informed practices to reduce stress, cultivate rest, and promote deep healing. Rooted in ancestral wisdom, Indigenous traditions, and connection to the land, this home invites women to transform their stories—not only through the lens of trauma, but through the power of resilience, hope, and belonging.
The ER Home offers a mycelium of healing pathways along the Emotional Recovery Journey:
Individual therapy
Body-based trauma therapies & movement sessions
Creative and rejuvenating connection circles for groups
Spirit Medicine groups
A rich array of indigenous and ancient wisdom offerings
Ancestral diets & Sustainable Eating classes
Healing power of Herbal Magic & Gardening classes
“We Outside” enjoyment & pleasure experiences
Overnight Retreat Space coming soon….