Empowering Life: A Fresh Outlook
Join Us in Transforming Recovery Culture.
We believe in changing the way we treat our Substance Use Disorder, and changing the way our world treats us. We do not have any objective or common goal in SUDA except what you want your life, and what your recovery to looks like. We base our success on your quality of life, and trust you to find your recovery in a safe space. That safe space is SUDA. When you get to recover how you want without interference from others, that is the cheat code for long term recovery. Find what works for you, refine it, and define it on your terms. Come find your path with SUDA where people telling you what to do is not the path, you are. Peace, Love, and Boundaries.
Empowering Spaces for a Better Life
In SUDA we believe you are everything you are looking for, and have lost that through the problematic use of substances. We don’t care about labels, people telling you what is best for you. It is not our priority, we each prioritize getting better boundaries in place. We emphasize self-empowerment and healthy boundaries with the substances and people around us.
Our mission is to help people with substance use find a better life, end stigma of each other, and promote understanding. We want to be a safe space to find your recovery or really a better life. In many ways the recovery community has become a confusing ball of unwarranted advise and entities that profit or gain power from your disempowerment. SUDA is a place to work it out, where you can criticize or empower any path you want, and the other has to accept your path.
In SUDA recovery is defined by you and each individual creates their own path. No one is going to save you except yourself, we just provide the connection for you to empower yourself to recover.
How do we do this? We make a commitment to have good boundaries with each other through following the SUDA way. What is the SUDA way, well that is up to you. The SUDA way is your way. We view Substance Use Disorder as a mental health condition, and that recovery or a better life is based on function and quality of life; not adherence to any one way of thinking.
Welcome to all who seek wellness in a sea of noise and people wanting to save you. SUDA will never assume they have your solution, we only have a space to find your solution. Tag, your it. You are the only solution you will ever need. Our only guidance for defining recovery is not about abstinence or God, it is about your healthy boundaries and your thought process. We define recovery, if you wish to define yourself in recovery, on the 10 Components of recovery. These components of recovery were created by consensus of both peers and professionals.
Empower Your Recovery Journey
Whether going to a meeting or learning more about Substance Use Disorder, start today with creating the change in your life that you want. I actually wanted to change the name of our groups to “gatherings” because I feel the term meeting carries a lot of baggage with it. However this will go to the meeting page because I have no clue what I am doing with websites and this app makes a good meeting list.
Currently we have one hybrid meeting in Danvers, MA (Friday at 7pm EST). Please come by if you are in the area. If you are not, the hybrid is a way you can connect. Have peace everyone, life is hard.
Meetings are a holdover of our beginnings as Substance Use Disorder Anonymous, our first incarnation. We became an alliance because we repeated the same thing expecting a different result. Even though we removed all the stuff that does not empower the individual, old habits die hard. That is a story for a different day, but I do talk about it on the “about” page.
I want everyone to know that SUDA is meant to be a paradigm shift in culture from disempowerment to empowerment. You do not need meetings to change, you just need to find change. This can be done with one friend, two friends, or just yourself. One thing in my experience, if I had boundaries I learned from everyone I met in my recovery. I learned everything that I wanted to be, and exactly who I don’t want to be. There is no waste in learning. We don’t need meetings, we need solidarity. SUDA is the unifying point of people that use substances and disorder becomes a choice when we have solidarity and allow for autonomy of thought, because we are all unique.
NOMAD: Not one more anonymous death. Peace, love, and boundaries.
Best,
Sean Doherty, Co-Founder of SUDA
Person-Centered Recovery
Explore our empowering core ideals and concepts.
Empowerment Path
Supportive environment for your self-empowerment journey in recovery. We support each other, we do not direct each other.
Confidential Support
Your privacy is our priority. Please advocate for yourself and others, be your recovery. Although we differ from other recovery outlets as not caring if you disclose your diagnosis and recovery, we do hold confidentiality as a core responsibility. What is said here, stays here. We do not “out” others for living with a Substance Use Disorder, or current substance use. No is the baseline for all consent in SUDA. Stigma among peers is very real. We are a safe haven for all who seek recovery.
Compassionate Community
Join a welcoming and understanding community. We support what you want for your recovery, not what any philosophy, institution, or other person may want.
Stigma-Free Approach
Redefining recovery without stigmatizing labels. We do not or will not ever endorse a set of parameters for what qualifies as recovery. We do not know what is best for you, you do. We will help you through our experience and support. We openly admit that recovery is not about perfection, but progress and quality of life. This comes in as many forms as there are people on Earth. Welcome to a new day looking at SUD and recovery in SUDA.
Healthy Boundaries
In SUDA the focus is on personal growth over labels. We need a supportive person centered environment. We are a consent based community that functions on healthy boundaries with the substances and people in our lives. We do this through committing to the Principles of Responsibility. Hit the button below to find out more.