Unlike other programs, we're a real community of people who have lived experience with substance use disorder, who have chosen to take back the control of our lives, who do not let those experiences define us. • We are not "addicts" -- we are people with lived experience with substance use, who are on a recovery journey. • We are not "powerless". We choose to take responsibility for the transformation in our lives because we understand the point of power and autonomy is ALWAYS within us alone. • We choose to come together as community, because so often, the recovery landscape is fraught with sterile, outdated and unhealthy "meetings", gatekeeping and ideologies that belong more in religious institutions not in places of meaningful healing and recovery. Our community isn't moderated by a clueless behavioural health practitioner, whose only experience with addiction and recovery comes from what they were taught in academic curricula. As the group's founder and moderator, I come with 20 years' recovery experience after my own struggle with substance use disorder and a 39-year track record of providing compassionate, evidence-based and effective counseling and coaching as a practitioner. This is my way of giving back. And I am grateful you have come to be part of our recovery family!