Welcome to the Relational Recovery Institute
The Relational Recovery Institute is grounded in the belief that all change happens in relationship, and that our attachments to others are both the most meaningful and at times the most challenging parts of our lives. Our programs are grounded in a relational attachment-based model that leads to transformed lives and relationships.
What is Relational Recovery?
Relational Recovery is the imperfect, courageous and vulnerable act of allowing ourselves to know and be known in relationship with others in a way that heals past wounds, changes us, matures us and ripens us into the authentic selves we were created to be.
Relationships are where we grow, where we heal, where we laugh and play, and where we have our most intense experiences of being intimately known and loved.
Relationships are also where we struggle. They are the places where shame about who we are can surface causing us to raise our protective masks and hide our true selves. They are the places where our imperfections show up causing us to feel dismay over failing someone in some way.
Relationships are where our deepest longings for love and connection are at times disappointed or overlooked. They are where we can sometimes experience direct harm that leaves us wounded and closed off.
If our most significant wounds happen in relationship with others (and they usually do) then doesn’t it make sense that our healing and restoration must also happen in relationship?
But a different kind of relationship. One based on the trust, safety, compassion, empathy, and grace that enable us to reveal our true selves to one another, imperfections, and all. Relationships that create a space and opportunity to experience Relational Recovery.