Images taken by our Members of our daily life in grateful recovery with our structured sober living program. We savor an active lifestyle, we prove that we recovery can and will be fun, gaining of a new way of life as a rite of passage. All photos are (C) the Members who shared them with us and consent has been given to appear on this site.
Taking it all in at Dupont Forest’s Triple Falls
The view from Black Mountain hike
The view from Craggy Pinnacle, another hiking favorite.
That’s Rusty. He’s always on the lookout.
Hike near Black Mountain
Finding our place in it all.
A weekend favorite: Catawba Falls
Panorama from Devil’s Courthouse off Blue Ridge Parkwway
Hike Above The French Broad Early Spring Has Sprung!
A rescue horse at Fragile Magic farm where we volunteer weekly
Peacocks at Nearby Fragile Magic Farm
Eating for recovery; nutrition is a valuable life skill!
View from the Ground Floor sitting area (a great place to talk… or just be still)
We do get the occasional visitor! Here, a friendly raccoon aimed high for some fruit.
Another visitor! Bears are radio tracked, and are far more afraid of humans than vice versa.
Put a little birdhouse in your soul? House finches made a nest in our porch light, a very sweet sign.
Birdwatching through binoculars. A Mandarin duck (not terribly common, but you’ll see them, along with herons, and many others).
Just another beautiful sunset!
The sky after a dramatic thunderstorm
Never take a single sunset for granted
Rainbow on our first full week!
sober living photos
Our Values
Recovery is a necessary social movement to reclaim the value of life. We believe that the deep process of personal transformation equips society with compassionate, wisdom-keeping men ready to teach from their hard-won lessons.
Deep Serenity
To truly address addiction, we must go beyond the substance and delve into the substantial. We rely on the natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and our serene home as a setting to do the great work of getting to the core, offering renewal.
The Brotherhood
The men who come as individuals to FIREBIRD form powerful bonds because of the intimacy of their shared journey, the necessity of transparency, and the vitality that is resurrected by the unburdening of shame and stigma.
