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SOBER RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Client-Customized Addiction Recovery
Shell Avenue is a boutique sobriety hub in Venice Beach, California. We blend the very best of the sober living and intensive in-patient rehab experience to deliver a full narrative shift and life re-architecture completely customized to the client. Our goal isn't just to contain and stabilize, or merely provide a place to stay. Our goal is to rebuild you, end generational trauma, create more fulfilled husbands, wives, partners, sons, daughters, employees and humans. In short, to help you live out loud.
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A Full Narrative Shift
The structured full-time residential program at Shell incorporates a variety of disciplines which we have found to be integral to treating addiction-related issues and introducing lifestyle shifting behaviors designed to rehabilitate and assist people in thriving once they leave.
This includes tapping into what we call the Ten Principles of Action: the client’s emotions, intellect, honesty, integrity, compassion, physical fitness, social, spiritual, sensual and environmental life.
By combining a vigorous program of one-to-one treatment, adjunct service provider integrations, focused recovery work, and holistic lifestyle re-architecture we have seen tremendous success with our clients.
Our Program
Sobriety isn't a linear process and neither is our program. In our experience, sobriety is achieved and maintained through an open-minded, curious, willing development of tools and self-exploratory action-oriented attitudes. These skills enable the person to develop self-love, self-respect and envision a life beyond their wildest dreams, and our phases of development all overlap.
Intake & Evaluation
Physical Transformation
Psychological Transformation
Relational Transformation
Lifestyle Re-Architecture
Emotional Sobriety
Spiritual Fitness & Maintenance
Comprehensive assessment including medically managed detox strategy, dual-diagnosis evaluation and treatment planning
Introduction to sponsor, 12-step work and 12-step meeting schedule; physical fitness and nutritional regime; ocean and dance therapy
2-6 sessions per week with Sean McFarland; adjunct therapeutic interventions (EMDR; brain-spotting; Traumatic Brain Injury, etc) as needed
Fellowship and social interaction; pairing with sober individuals with similar passions, goals, backgrounds; couples and family therapy, as needed
Custom routine building and self-love program; service & welfare initiatives; inner child work; introduction to the 10 dimensions of joy; life goal setting & strength-resourcing; squaring away unpaid debts and overlooked obligations
Overcoming limiting beliefs; establishing life-in-consultation strategies; breaking the gratitud-o-meter; redefining relapse; restraint of pen and tongue; self-advocacy and boundaries
Guided and self-paced meditation; prayer practice; writing workshops; post-Shell continuity and safety planning
Sex, Love & Addiction Recovery
Contrary to popular belief, drugs, alcohol or any addictive behavior are the individual's solution and not their problem. The source of the problem goes deeper and, once the immediate addiction is treated, addictions often switch tracks. What AA calls the ”whack-a-mole” of addiction, typically sobriety results in addictive tendencies showing up in other areas of life, resulting in risky emotional relapses in relationships, sex lives, business and personal lives. Clients often tell us that withdrawal from heroin was a walk in the park compared to working through their sex, love and codependence issues.
Sean McFarland's deep experience separately treating sex and love addiction as well as codependence issues enables Shell to expand the concept of relapse and build more nuanced pictures of the addicted client's emotional life. This enables clients to develop the self-awareness to spot the emotional slips that can result in full blown physical relapse and even on their own lead to major depressive episodes and suicidal ideation.
We Are Not A Glum Lot
We absolutely insist on having fun. Our second life begins the minute we realize we only have one and we plan on filling it with laughter, music, art, nature, food, fellowship, good conversation and lots of love.
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We throw family dinners, head to the movies, take in art shows, sit court side at Lakers and Clippers games, catch the latest shows at the Hollywood Bowl. Marinating in living room darkness isn't our get down...we're here to level up, live out loud and help our sober living community enjoy what the world has to offer.
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Oceanic Therapy
At Shell, we're blessed to be so close to the ocean. Every week various members of the Shell tribe meet on the beach at 7am, go for a 3 mile run and dive into the ocean.
We emphasize the importance of starting the day early and with the right attitude. A bit of sweat followed by the cold temperature shift is a powerful way of telling your body and your mind that you're showing up, ready to shift the narrative in the eternal present moment.
Insurance & Rates
We are a private-pay facility.
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Rates depend on the client's addiction(s) and co-occurring issues, their length of sobriety and level of care required. Some people come to us with a complex array of treatment requirements, including family and couples therapy, trust as well as court mandated liaisons and communications.