A Safe Entry into Addiction Treatment

When you first enter the building, you enter what we call the green room, which is a spin-off of the space that you would be in before the show starts. And you're going to be invited to take your shoes off and put on slippers, cuz we wear slippers at The Living Room cuz there's nowhere to go. Rest. Take your shoes off. And I got that one off of just watching Mr. Rogers as a kid. I was always fascinated by how methodically and slowly he transitioned from his outside world to his inside world. And I wanted that to happen in the green room. And so from the green room, you enter what we call the great room, which is the largest space at The Living Room. And the great room is designed mostly like a living room. That's the space that really invites you to just get comfortable. There's couches and chairs and everything is designed to be soft. The fabrics, the colors, so that you, regardless again of what your inner experience might be, your body recognizes that this is a place where I can be comfortable. The meaning of the word comfort is interesting because it means with strength. So whenever we're comfortable, it means we're resting in our strength. And we want to invite people to do that because some of the things we're going to look at, some of those spiritual doors we're going to open, can be scary, sometimes even terrifying. So we might as well start from a place of strength. And that's what the great room does for people. That's where we socialize. That's where we eat. It's where people will come and sit if they need a little bit of respite from a group or an individual session. That's our common area.