Healing & Growth

Transform your life through recovery, personal growth, and a supportive community at Lighthouse Community Recovery Home.

Lighthouse Community Recovery Home: Healing Together

At Lighthouse, we believe healing isn’t just about addressing the past — it’s about becoming whole.
We work layer by layer, cultivating environments for recovery, building trust, reinforcing accountability, and fostering purpose.

Our approach centers around action, not avoidance — guided by structure, connection, and the foundational strength of community.

“Healing begins with understanding. Growth begins with doing.”

Healing and Growth in Practice

At Lighthouse, healing is made visible through action — from structured group feedback to peer mentorship and real-world responsibilities.

Emotional Support

Offering compassionate guidance through life’s most difficult emotional experiences.

Life Skills

Empowering individuals with practical tools to build a sustainable, independent life.

Mindfulness Practices

Teaching techniques to increase self-awareness and emotional regulation

What Makes Our Approach Different?

Lighthouse incorporates practical philosophies called “Concepts” — daily principles that help members understand their values and rebuild their self-worth. Here, recovery is more than getting clean. It’s living differently.

"Behavior change is unstable without insight, and insight is insufficient without felt experience."
– Lighthouse Concept #70

We guide individuals through concept-driven recovery, where ideas like:

“Act as if, feel as if, be as if” encourage people to take positive actions before they fully believe in themselves.
“You are number one” reminds us that self-care is the foundation of sustainable recovery.
“One day at a time” brings focus and peace to the present moment.
“Nothing changes if nothing changes” motivates action over avoidance.
“Define or be defined” helps participants reclaim authorship of their story.

These principles grow from the same values our community lives by — respect, accountability, and shared purpose.

Our Healing Community

Every interaction at Lighthouse reflects our commitment to fostering inner growth through outer support. Community members are encouraged to share, reflect, and practice responsibility with one another in an environment of unconditional acceptance rooted in care and concern

"The community mirrors the individual."
– Lighthouse Concept #58

As participants grow in self-awareness, compassion, and confidence, they become contributors to a healing culture that welcomes the next person who walks through our doors.

At Lighthouse, healing is made visible through action — from structured group feedback to peer mentorship and real-world responsibilities.

From the Director

The Therapeutic Community, as a method of treatment, offers several advantages over traditional approaches. Community members not only learn healthy values, but are also provided the opportunity to practice them.

While developing new attitudes and beliefs, they also develop new behaviors and habits — which results in an opportunity to change their character rather than just to misunderstand it.

Since they simultaneously experience the redefining of everything they have previously understood or believed to be true, they must choose to either run fast away or remain comfortable within the lifestyle they know. Genuine change can only occur when others consistently demonstrate the values of the community so credibly that the realities of these values illuminate the deepest, darkest corners within their mind.

— Stuart P. Strong, M.A.
Executive Director, Lighthouse Community Recovery Home

Ready to begin healing in a therapeutic community?

Join us at Lighthouse Community Recovery Home and take the next step toward personal transformation.
This is where values become visible, and healing becomes possible.

Lighthouse Community Recovery Home, Inc.
A registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 99-4919922

OHFLAC Reg No. 114

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